THE, MAGIC OF THE,

MII\TIMTJM DOST,

EXPERIEJVCES A]\TD CASES

BY

DR. DOROTHY SHEPHERD

HEALTH SCIENCE PRESSRUSTINGTON, SUSSEX, ENGLAND

First published rg38

Reuised edition 1946

Third edition 1964

C Mrs. G. E. Robinson

MADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

THE GARDEN CITY PRESS LIMITED

LETCHWORTH, HERTFORDSHIRE

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FOREWORD

ONn feels that Homaopathy is not clearly understood; it hasbeen the Cinderella o,f Medicine for so long; it is time that thislowly hand-maiden should shed her cloak of humility and comeout o{ her obscurity and boldly proclaim what good she can do.This account of some experiences in the daily harassirg life of ahumble homaopathic disciple is given in order to spread theknowledge o,f Homaopathy; not as a self advertisement. Godforbid ! There are hundreds more in the British Isles and inAmerica and on the continent of Europe who could do theteaching of Homaopathy and tell of this miraculous power ofthe homaopathic drug in sickness-so, much better.

Some of the followirg pages appeared in Heal Thyself (TheHomaopa,thic World), apd by request of the Publisher have beenrevised, with additions. If, after reading them, sorne would beled into studying Homaopathy for themselves or to' ask theirdo,ctors to interest themselves in Homaopathy, one would becontent,

This is not meant to be a textboo,k of Hom€opathy or a co,m-plete book on clinical homaopathic therapeutics. They are justexperiences picked out at random to illustrate the mighty truthsthat are hidden in Homaopathy, and to show the sometimeswonderful results which can be obtained, if the directions givenby the masters are followed. There are no, exaggerations in thereports of the cases mentioned : they are plain unvarnished truthsof incidents that actually happened.

Muy Homaopathy flourish and grow from strength tostrength !

Donorny SnBpnERD

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infinitesimal minimum doses which are the spirit of the medicinal

substances and agents; it has been described and explained, I

trust, in the simplest of words, so that he who will can read and

understand.

Donourv SunpnERD

FOREWORD TO THE, 3RD EDITION

I LrvED and worked with Di'. Dorothy Shepherd for many years'

and came to know and respect her rvide knowledge and under-

standing of Homaopathy, especially in relation to long-standing

disease.Her generosity was boundless in the matter of her personal

care and skill for sufferers, and also in her willingness to share

her knowledge of Homaopathy with anyone who was willing and

anxious to learn of the Art and Science to rvhich she devoted her

life. She would teach the luy people with the same care and

patience as the medical student-thereby endearitg herself to

some and antagonising many of her own brethren.Her driving thought was to bring Ho'mcopathy into the lives

of the people, who she realized-as we all do today-were becom-

irg more and more dissatisfied with modern drug treatments. She

ma,Ce endless notes and jottings of thoughts about healing and

medicine; information about remedies and accounts of her experi-

ences in clinical practice were scribbled on odd sheets of paper

n henever she had a spare moment, wherever she happened to be.

After her sudden passing in rg52, it fell to me to collect these

notes together. A busy iife with a big homaopathic practice has

not left very much time to decipher the pencil jottings and sort

into a comprehensible order, but at last this ha-s been done and it

n'ill now be possible to publish uniformly with this 3rd edition,

further books from Dr. Dorothy Shepherd's great treasury of

knowledge ancl experience.It is for all who seek the true healing of man's whole being,

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body, mind and soul, to learn of the Art and Science of a therapythat is based on a firm foundation of proven remedies, and ad-ministered accorditg to laws that have been also proven by prac-tical experience and application on healthy men and womenot on the suffering of the animal kingdom through experimentand vivisection.

GwnuETH E. RosNSoN

North?ffi, N. Devon

MY COI{VE,RSION TO HOMG.OPATHICHIGH POTENCIE,S

A PEnsoNAL ExPnnIENCE

Fnorra my childhood days I have been a Hornaopath; in fact I

should not have been here at all if it had not been for

Homaopathy. For my mother cured herself with homaopathic

pilules from a sharp attack of confluent smallpox when the ortho-

dox me,dical practitioner had given her uP, and I was born

within a week or two of her recovery. As a member of. a homreo-

pathic family, luckily for ffie, I escaped all the horror of nursery

medicines, such as castor oil or Gregory's powders.The ideals of Ho,mcopathy were rather blurred while I was a

medical student. With the foolish superiority of newly acquired

knowledge I despised the tiny little globules, which I thought

might be good enough for children and their simple ailments.

One duy I had rather an eye-opener. A bee disliked me and I

got a nasty sting on my hand. It swelled, and the inflammation

spread up my arm. My mother humbly suggested Apis to me.

The pain was so great that I took it in desperation and lo and

behold ! in a few minutes verily all pain and swelling had dis-

appeared. Then I remembered how the previous summer I had

been stung on my lip, and how I had been plagued and humilia-

ted and frightened by one-half my face swelling enorrnously, and

the local doctor's remedies had not made the slightest difference

for three days. That was orthodox medicine for you ! "If only

I knew where to learn more about Homaopathy !"

I qualified, and for several years worked strenuously as House

Surgeon in various general hospitals, and one duy I heard about

a School of Homceopathy in Chicago. I thereupon took a bus-

man's holiday and went off to the States in the late autumn.

What a voyage that was ! Stormy and cold and rainy ! I was

cooped up in a small cabin with a young mo'ther, and her baby

was screarnittg dty and night from teething pains.

I arrived tired and wom in New York and immediately fell a

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victim to a feverish chill, due to the effects of a cold northerlywind on a tired-out system. There was I all alone in a foreigncountry, Iaid up in a big hotel with a high temperature. Whatwas to be done ? Dim recollections fro,m my childhood days cameto me. "What were the medicines used ? Oh, yes, I have it !"Aconite and Bryonia yc alternately were taken and in a fewhours they reduced my temperature. But I was left with a nastysequel, a violent frontal sinusitis, an inflammation of the cavitiesin the bony skull, which caused agonizirg pains in my foreheadand the bridge of my nose, absolutely blinding in character.

My one idea was to get to Chicago as quickly as possible andget treatment. I have very little recollection of the journeybetween l.{ew York and Chicago, even though I stopped a nightat Niagara to see the world-famous Falls. I tried mental treat-ment of all sorts to ease my head, but nothing was any use. Ifanythitrg, it got worse and worse. The mo,ment I arrived inChicago I rushed off to see one of the ho,maopathic physicians.He was rather brusque and short with me, especially when I toldhim in my opinion high potencies could not possibly do anygood. 2x or 3x potencies I would grant him, but anything higher-mere moonshine.

He gave me Nux uomica on my sympto,ms, which were,shortly, chill caused by dry cold wind, feeling o{ icy coldness all,through body, could not get warm--even sitting in front of aradiator; shivering as soon as movement started, violent throb-bing pain in forehead and nose, worse stoopins, worse bendingforward, worse rvarrn room, headache worse slightest pressure,generally worse morniilBS, and withal there was extreme irrita-bility, snappiness and bad temper. I was told : "Take the Ir{uxuomica at night but, mind you, it might make you feel worse, agreat deal worse, at first. I shall give you one dose of theIoo,oooth po,tency." I smiled unbelievingly: I was no foo,l, Ithought the high dilution could have no effect. I might just aswell take plain sugar.

Well, I was desperate, I didn't want an operation, which wasthe only other alternative for the pus in my frontal sinuses. So inthe evening I swallor,r'ed my cm. powder. A very short timeafterwards my head felt as if there was a forge inside, such aviolent hammering and throbbitg and heat-it was like hell letloose. I thought every minute I \4'as going to die with the agonyof the pain and prayed for deliverance, when suddenly after half

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an hour, or maybe an hour, there was blessed relief. The painleft me as suddenly as it had started. I slept all night long. Inthe morning I got up and tried to stoop and bend forward, whichI had been unable to do for several days, and I was free fro,m alldiscomfort. I sang "Hallelujah, Hallelujah." Twenty-four hourslater I took another dose of. Ir{ux cm. as there was a slight returnof the headache and also some difficulty in stooping. I hesitatedfor fear of starting another aggravation; but this time there wasrelief at once and no increase of pain at all.

I had learnt two things at one go. First, that high po,tenciesrvork rapidly and efficaciously, and secondly, that they can causeacute pain and aggravation and should be used H'ith great care.Two valuable lessons indeed. Frorn that duy to this I have hadno return of frontal sinusitis and, indeed , I{ux uomica has beena stand-by and valuable help in other cases of acute sinus troubleafter colds and nasal catarrhs, both in low potencies ( t *) andhigh potencies, whenever indicated.

To continue the story of my conversion to the use of highpotencies. I was cured of my acute frontal sinus, but I found Istill had a dull heavy feeling all over my head and I could notapply myself at all to any useful work. I could not read for anylength of time, I could not remember what I read even; and thisheavy stupid feeling was alrvays worse between r o in the morningand 3 in the afternoolt. What particularly worried me was mybad memory, due to not having had a holiday for several yearsand much over-study. One of my fellow students in Chicagooffered to cure me of my cerebral anremia, and I was only tooglad. She advised me to take Tuberculinunt r,oooth po,tency, tobe repeated in weekly doses. I think I took the r,oooth potetrcy,three doses. Anyway the result again was not f.at fro,m miracu-lous. I could read without effort, without being plagued byheadaches and, what \ /as better, I could remember what I hadread. In fact aftemrards, having read a page once or twice over,I could repeat it word by rvord by heart, an achievement I hadnot been able to accomplish for several years. Again, a highpotency had r,r'orked wonders. Are you surprised I tried highpotencies o'n cther people ? I find that high potencies go deeperand act longer; that it, they act for longer periods and theypowerfully stir up the constitution and make a vital difference inthe character, temperament and mental make-up of therespective patients.

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But a word of warning is not out of place here. Let meimpress upon luy people that "high potencies" are not for themto play with. A knowledge of metaphysics, mental philosophyand logic, is necessary before one can hope even humbly tounderstand their action from a distance. I have been horrified atsome people who after reading a book or trvo on Materia Medica,while they are ..still in a state of mental indigestion, start to throwtheir weight about and begin to treat their friends and acquain-tances with repeated doses of high potencies, frequently changittgthe remedies every few days; in their foolish ignorance and vain-glory they do more harm to the cause of homaopathy than ifthey kept to the ordinary run of household remedies.

Let each man stick to his own lasts; the study of medicine andstill more the study of homcopathy is a whole-time and life-longoccupation.

There are many o,thers, I am fully aware, who having graspedthe inner meaning of homaopathy are competent to deal withmany o'f the ailments H'hich beset us on our path through thisworld of sorrow, without having passed through college andhospital and rt'ithout possessing a medical qualification. But highpotencies although on the other end of the scale are far removedfrom the material toxic doses, can kill just as surely as poisonousdoses of opiurn, strychnine, etc. High potencies are Vibrations ofthe life forces of a medicinal agent, and just as a glass has beenknown to crack when a certain chord is struck on a musicaJinstrument, so the silver cord attachitg the higher bodies to thecoarser grained physical body in men, may snap across, if themost similar medicine is given in a very high potency.

THE LAWS GOVtrRNII{G THtr SCIENCE AND THEBASIS OF THE REMEDIES

TnE whole universe is governed by laws : Astronomy andMeteoro,logy are based on the scientific calculations and laws ofthe mathematician and physicist; but Homo Sapiens himself iscontent to leave the treatment and cure of his bodily ailments to

chance. Medicine and medical therapeutics are a law unto them-selves by having no laws : Medicine is an art-you are to'ld, anddepends on the art o,f the diagnostician. Diagnosis is everything :

find out what is wrong with the patient and the patient will becured ipso f acto ! But is that really so ? The same symptoms maybe ascribed to, antrum trouble, to a prolapsed kidney or kidneys,to a grumbting appendix, or to some phobia or repression of ideasin early childhmd, accordirg to whether you visit a rhinologist,a kidney enthusiast, a general surgeon or a psychologist. Andafter one or other of these organs have been excised, and thevictim still feels ilI, he may be sent from one surgeon to another

and gradually be deprived of nearly all his organs and, still atthe end of it all, he will not be one whit the better !

This has been so throughout the ages; only to mention thetale of the "woman with an issue of blood for twelve years andwho had suffered many things of many physicians and had spentall that she had and was nothing bettered, but rather grew'wo,rse". (St. Mark V.)

We seem to have made very little progress since the days that

Jesus walked in Galilee and performed his miracles.Yes, the physician has concentrated on diagnosis and on the

pseudo-scientific gadgets as an aid to diagnosis, and while the

patient is being probed and tested, X-rayed and peered at throughthe bronchoscope and electric gastroscope and rectoscope and I

don't know how many other scopes, what happens to the diseaseprocesses ? What happens to the host, the owner of all these

mysteries ? methinks the patient himself is a second ary

consideration.Laboratory tests are regarded as o,f more importance than the

6 The Magic of the Minimum Dose

individual, and observations at the bedside of the individual arerarely carried out nowadays. And yet laws exist to guide thephysician how to treat the sick person; but unhappily they havenever been o,fficially recognized,.

The first law is the law of simillimum, which is fo'llowed by (z)the principle of the minimum dose, (g) the principle of potenti-zation The statement "like cures like')-c'Similia similibuscurentsl"-was first pronounced by Paracelsus, later re-dis-covered by Hahnemann, who then proceeded to build upon thisfact his superstructure of scientific treatment by medicinal sub-stances. Any substance, it may be of animal, vegetable or mineralorigin, will produce certain reactions or symptoms, if given to, thehealthy individual for a long enough period. These reactionswere collected by Hahnemann and his pupils, some 50 co-workers, mostly doctors, with great care and diligence-and thecorollary fo,llowed : these self-same symptoms, if found in a sickperson, would be removed or cured by the medicinal substancewhich produced them in the healthy individual. Let me give anexample or two as proof of this co,ntention :

The effects of a bee's sting-the virus of the honeybee, arewell known : burnitg, stinging, lancinating pains with excessiveswelling which come on rapidly and spread rapidly-hot appli-cations make the burning, stinging pains worse-constitutionalsymptoms are occasionally produced in the involuntary prover orvictims. There may be stiffness, constriction, difficulty in breath-itg, restlessness and general widespread cdema. If you find asick person showing these symptoms, it may be in rheumatism,kidney disease, peritonitis, meningitis, you will be able to curethe disease with minute doses of Apis or bee virus.

There is a certain spider, called the black spider, which lurksin the underground passages and cellars of houses in Cuba andsouthern states of North America, and whose bite is much fearedby the natives, not because it is painful. The person bitten doesnot realize that anything is wrong until the next duy, when aninflamed pimple is seen, surrounded by a scarlet blush; thispimple continues to swell and spread, chill and fever sets in, thepimple becomes a large hard abscess which ends by mortificationof the integuments over it and several small openings form rvhichdischarge a thick, sanious matter. fn delicate children the bitemay even prove f.atal. The above condition resembles a carbun-cle, and if you find carbuncles in patients, you may be quite

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certain that you will be able to disperse them rapidly with a few

minute doses of the poison of the black spider or T arentula

cubensis, which has been used successfully in this manner in the

past by physicians all over the world.- A thiid example: the bite of the Spanish spider-Tarentul'a

hispanica-is follorved by a dancing mania. After a bite dysP _nc4 suffocation, blackness of the skin of the body comes on. If

music is played, movement of the feet and hands and then the

whole body is produced, violent dancing follows, and then the

blackness of the face and hands goes off and the patient recovers.

Curiously enough, every succeeding year at the same season the

pain and attendirg symptoms recur, and they can always be

iverted by music. Therefore, if you get a patient with restlessne$s,

chorea, hyste ria, alternately laughing and crying, then think of

T arentula hispanica; it will cure certain types of hysteria o'r

mental diseases in people who pretend or who feign chorea o'r

twitching or gc in for violent dancing when they know they are

observed; but show no hysteria when unobserved or left alone.

If these choreic or hysterical paroxysms are improved by music,

then the Spanish spider in minute doses will effect a cure.

Atropa-bettadonn(t, the attractive black berries of the deadly

nightshide, are often the cause of serious poisonitg in children.

These berries dilate the pupils of the eyes : the skin becomes dry

and bright red, the face becomes scarlet, in fact, frequently cases

of belladonna poisonirg have been mistaken for cases of scarla-

tina, and therefore certain types of scarlet fever, the typical cases

of Sydenham's scarlet, when the skin presents a smooth, even red

surface, are cured by Belladonna within a duy or two. "Give

BelladonnA", one doctor wrote some years "So,

"and there was

no need to notify scarlet o,r send them to the hospital. The next

duy, the rash and .sore throat had disappea,red." During an

epidemic of scarlet fever it is a wise precaution to give BeIIa-

donna two or three times a duy to all the children who are

exposed to infectioo, and there will be no further spread.

ftre law of simillimum \ ras tested out and proved by Hahne-

mann and his followers more than I3o yeals ago. Provings, as he

called these experimental tests, were made, not on animals, as

they are so frequently made in these days, but on healthy human

beings. A number of individuals, men and women, were chosen,

their peculiarities were noted, and for some days they received

blank pills or porvders; then a medicinal substance was added

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without their knowledge, and any reactions or symptoms thatwere produced were noted down, and a record was- drawn upfor each remedy proved. Cases of poisoning were collected frommedical literature and their symptoms analysed and added to therecord. If several Provers produced the same symptoffi, thatmeant that this particular symptom would stand high and wascertain to cure the same symptom in a sick person, tnd one ofthe first to be considered. fn that way nearly lo6 medicinal sub-stances were proved at that time, and since Hahnemann's day agood many of these remedies have been re-proved, and in.symptoms produced were found to be correct, and many otherremedies have been more or less thoroughly tested and proved onhealthy persons. So now we possess a Materia Medicu oi approxi-mately 2,ooo remedies fro,m which to choose according^ io thelaw of similars the co,rrect remedy for each case.

The law of the minimum dose followed on the law of thesimillimum. Hahnemann found that if he gave the correctlyindicated remedy in a case, say Beltadonnu, for a case of scarletfever, he would produce violent reactions in the sick person. Thepatient was so sensitive to the correct remedy that piysiologicaldoses upset him, therefore he proceeded to try out smallerlndsmaller doses; and he tried them out with mathematical pre-cision. He diluted each medicine first on the centesimal scale andlater or, his pupil, Dr. Hering, introduced the decimal scale ofpotentization of drugs. Physicians on the Continent prefer thedecimal scale of preparation as a rule; Hahrr.*Lnn onlyemployed the centesimal scale and found that a patient sensi-tized by the inherent disease products in his o,wn body reactedfavourably, that it, his symptoms were removed and he wasconsequently cured-by minutest or minimum doses of thecurative remedy.

T'he method- of preparing each medicine was roughly asfo'llows; and right up to date we still carry on in the same fa.shion

it cannot be improved upon :A medicine is measured, one part of a drug is taken and is

diluted with either 9 parts or gg parts of the dituent vehicle, aninert or non-medicinal substance,

-usually sugar of milk or recti-

fied spirit in the good old pre-war days. The Jr.rg is rubbed downfor an hour in a porcelain mortar, if solid, with sugar of milk-triturated is the official term-by hand originalty,

"nowadays by

machine-until the medicinal substance is well incorporated into

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the diluent vehicle. This is your r st centesimal. One part of this

mixture is taken and again diluted and triturated for an hour

with g or gg parts of sugar of milk, accorditg to whether you

wish io use it on the decimal or centesimal scale : this makes the

end decimal or znd centesimal dilution or trituration : once

again you take one part of this mixture and dilute with 9 or 99parts of sugar of milk, triturate it carefully by hand for an hour,

ind this produces the 3rd decimal or 3rd centesimal dilution.

After thai all further dilutions as a rule are carried out rvith

rectified spirit, or distilled water, or water and spirit. That is,

one part of the mixture is diluted with g or 99 parts of alcoho'l

or distilled water, o,r water and alcohol, and well shaken, and

this makes the 4th decimal or the 4th centesimal po'tency, and so

on. You can dilute as often as you like : Hahnemann found that

by carrying out these procedures and on administering these

drugs in this form that the action of the remedy was remarkably

and definitely increased. He called it ho,mceopathic action, ?s a

drug can only act homaopathically if it is chosen accorditg to

the law of similars-according to the principle that like cures

like.A minute dose or infinitesimal dose does not make it a homco'

pathic dose or give it a homaopathic action : the remedy must

be chosen also, accordirg to the selectivity of action-according

to the principle that like cures like. These homaopathic solutions

and attenuations were called potencies by Hahnemann as he

found to his great surprise that they acted more powerfully than

the ordinary solutions, not prepared with such mathematical pre-

cision and such minute care as regards exact dilution and definite

trituration and succussion. This trituration or succussion is a most

important part of the process of preparation of the drug, as with-

o,ri it the physical action of the breaking up of the molecules

into ions could not take place.Animal, vegetable or mineral substances when potentized are

rendered more potent-not less, just because of this breaking up

of their minutest particles, and this disintegration of their atoms

by which their energy is liberated acts by releasing radio-active

power.You will say there can be nothing left after these substances

have been so divided and subdivided except sugar of milk or

water.In the earlier days Hahnemann and his followers depended on

Io The Magic of the A[inimu,nt l)oseclinical tests and clinical cures, but we can show by scientificmeans that active remnants of medicinal substances are presentin these triturations. Fol example,

_ the spectroscope proves quite{:firy'ely +9 presence of active substanies in tfre gth centesimaldilutions, this was shown in r86e I In rgr + aFr.n"ch observer inParis demonstrated the presence of cop;er in a r ooth centesimaldilution.

I\{uch research has since been done by Dr. 'W.

E. Boyd inGlasgow. He worked with an insoluble metal and found that aspectrogram of the Aurum metallicum in the 7th decim al or 7xtincture showed definite presence of gold. He also proved thatTulltd physical activity wT present *itrr 6x and 7 *'tinrtures ofRadium bromide and that electroscopic tests shoH,ecl activity withthe rox preparations.

. The power of the infinitesimal is being acknowledged by well-knorvn exponents of the orthodox school-: Langdor. drown spokerecently of the potency of the infinitesimal dose in the thera-

peutics of hormones and vitamins : for example, one part of theposterior lob:.-of the pituitary dissolved in ,5,ooo million parts ofwater can still produce contractions of the uterus, that is, onegrain in r,ooo tons of fluid.These are so'me short remarks on the principles of Hornao-pathy, but pcrsonal experience is necess ary to convince one of

the efficacy o{ its teaching.

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THE ACTION OF THE MII{IMUM DOSE IN ACUTE,

EPIDEMICS

Sonan yeani ago there was a heated discussion in the CouncilChambers of one of the northern cities on the pros and cons of

Homaopathy and the advisability of giving the Hornaopaths ofthe to\r'n access to beds and permission to practise in the localfever hospitals : one side stated in all sincerity that Homaopathsmight do no harm in minor troubles, but that such severe mala-

dies as measles and its co,mplications, diphtheria and pneumoniarequired "skilled medical care and the administration of properdrugs and remedies". ft would mean exposing the patients togreater danger, and the death rate would rise, if such hereticsas Homaopaths were allowed to treat them. What the outcomewas of this discussion, one does not know. Let us, however,examine these statements : What minor diseases are there whichmight be left safely to the care of Hom€opaths ? Is it not a wellrecognized fact that a neglected cold may quickly develop into afatal broncho-pneumonia in thirty-six to forty-eight hours ? thatan apparently mild tonsillitis may suddenly become virulent andkill the patient in a few days; that a blister of the heel casuallyoverlooked has been known to cause death in three or four days;and so on. Is a Homaopath even competent enough to recognizethe seriousness of a condition so, that he can call in a morelearned brother when he feels a "minor" case is beyond him ?

Are there no records of the results of Homaopathy in acutediseases ? One trained nurse told me that in a fever hospitalwhere she worked for some time, a hornaopathic physician atten-ded regularly, and though they used to laugh at his glasses ofwater and the tiny pilules he dissolved in it, the fact remainedthat his cases developed no complications; they went out inrecord time and deaths were almost unknown !-thus the testi-mony of an independent trained observer.

Let me quote chapter and verse for results in some epidemicsin the past which were treated by Homaopaths and which canbe verified, if so desired, in the archives of the particular towns

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and hospitals respectively. In r B r 3 there raged an epidemic ofwhat was called war typhus in Central Europe, it might havebeen typhoid for all we kno,w; these two diseases had not beenpathologically and bacteriologically differentiated at that time,and thousands died under o,rthodox tre atment or, in spite oftreatment. In Leipzig there practised then o,ne Samuel Hahrre-mann, the Father of this new school of treatment, based on theLaw of Similars. He treated I 83 cases of typhus, in accordancewith his principles; he gave Bryonia in the r zth centesimaldilution to some cases, to others who presented slightly differentsymptoms he gave Rhus tox. rzth centesimal potency in infre-quent drop doses. These were cases in the first stage of thedisease. To those cases who progressed to the second stage, heprescribed Hyoscyam,us in Bth or gth dilution. And how many doyou think survived the hero,ic measures of this heretic homco-path Hahnemann ? r Bz survived to tell the tale and only onedied, and he was a very old, enfeebled person. You can read allabout it in the newspapers of that period; for Hahnemann madeno mystery of it, he explained everything clearly in his article; hewent fully into the preparation of each rem.dy, and the reasonsfor giving the different medicines, so that other doctors couldimitate him and repeat his success. So you see how successfulHomaopathy proved itself in such a virulent and fatal disease astyphus, the mortality rate of which is well over 50 per cent. evennow.

I can hear unbelievers s&y, of course, the diagnosis was wrongin the cases treated by Hahnemann, and these people whorecovered did not have typhus at all : but the symptoms werecarefully noted down in full and these records have been kept,and they are identical with the case histories of those of theorthodox physicians, and one can be absolutely certain that theywere de,finitely serious cases of typhus.

And what is the record of the modern physician with all hislatest equipments, bacterio'logical laboratories, serums and inocu-lations ? Have \4'e advanced at all in Medicine ? at any rate asregards the recovery rate of serious epidemics ?

I am not talking in a slighting spirit : I am only mentioningfacts rvhich stare one in the face. In rggT we had an epidemicof typhoid here in England, z9z cases were notified and twenty-five deaths were reported as due to this disease so far, at the timeof writing, and some more cases are said to be dangerously ilI,

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and further cases may still end fatally. Therefore the death rateof typhoid these *od.* days is at ieast B per cent, or Bo perI,ooo-and typhoid is not such a f.atal or virulent disease astyphus ! The homaopathic death rate in r B r 3 was .5 per cent. or

5 per l,ooo for the more f.atal disease of typhus; the orthodoxdeath rate is more than ten times as much ! Figures speak !*

Unfortunately Hommopaths were not called in to treat thecases of typho'id. Oh, the pity thereof !

Now let us consider another epidemic disease; this time it shallbe Asiatic cho,lera which raged in England in r 854. The resultsunder allopathy showed a death rate of 59.2 per cent.; while theHomaopaths had a mortality rate of r 6.4 per cent.; the percentageof recoveries uunong the Hommopaths was three times as great asthe recovery rate in the orthodox hospitals. This unpleasant factof the superiority of homaopathic o,ver orthodox treatment wascarefully suppressed, though a medical commission was sent tothe London Homaopathic Hospital and their records were care-fully scrutinized by a medical inspector, who certified them asco,mect. And these results are still being ignored. Nowhere in themedical textbooks do you see it mentioned that cho'lera treatedhomaopathically is not so f.atal and has a higher recovery ratethan orthodox allopathic treatment.

This conspiracy of silence still persists. The orthodox schoolwill hardly investigate our claims that we can and do, cure acutediseases more rapidly, without any subsequent complications thanthe recognized Medicine of the duy. If a case recovers underhomaopathic treatment, one usually hears it said that it was onlya mild case, and it would have recovered anyhow !

And what about influenza? We have mild epidemics of itevery year, and every thirty years or so a virulent type of infu-enza arrives and sweeps over the four qua,rters of the globe,ravaging and killing people by the thousand. The last epidemic,still within living memory, was of course in t g t B, when manypeople among the war-wearied populations of the world werecarried off. I do not know whether records are available of themortality rate of influenza under homaopathic r6gime. I canonly testify from personal experience to the invaluable help whichhomaopathic remedies gave me in treating the many cases of

* At the time of going to press, the figures according to the newspaperswere as follows : g2o cases notified; with a total of 44 deaths. A mortalityrate of rg.7S%. And sti l l i t is not f inished.

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influenza under my care at that time. One treated over r oo,nearer I5o cases; both rich and poor, young and old, male andfemale; and the results were astonishing. The cases were notpicked ones; some were seriously ill when first seen, with hightemperatures and bronchial invo,lvement, some had it more mildly,and yet the temperatures in nearly all cases came down intwenty-four to forty-eight hours : they were kept strictly in bedfor a week after the temperature was norrnal, kept on dilute fruitjuices during the whole of the time-orange juice and grapejuice, no milk, no tea was allowed. And there was not a singledeath in the whole of this series and no subsequent complications.The case that gave me most anxiety, and the only one which hada relapse within two weeks, and who remained ill altogether forsix rveeks, was a dispenser who insisted on trying out all the latestmixtures ordered by rvell-known physicians which were dispensedat her fashionable chemist's shop ! The trouble I had with her,the temperature went up and up, various complications devel-oped and I was afraid she was going to slip through my hands;how grateful I was when I could sign her off and get her awayfor a change of air at the seaside ! After that I refused to allowany patient to order their own treatment, they had to obey myinstructions or go somewhere else.

One's cases were not particularly mild at the start, and yetthey o,ne and all said when they recovered, "What a mild attackI had." They did not grasp that the innocuous looking medicinehad anything to do with their rapid recovery. Arsenic in minutestdoses was the remedy that proved most helpful in many of thesecases; but that does not mean that Arsenid would always answerin every epidemic of influenza. You have to find the picture ofthe epidemic, which varies from season to season. In moist warmseasons most cases would be covered by Gelsemium; in dry cold,windy weath er, Aconite and lr{ux uomica would come in, and sofo,rth. The curious part o,f the I g I B influ enza epidemic was this :twenty years later I read in an Amer{can journal that Arsenicwas the epidemic remedy in America in rgr8. Homceopathicphysicians cannot help agreeing with one another; the sameaariety of symptoms mean the same drug to them that is lvhatis meant by the Law of Similars. Do you get this among theRegulars ? Almost every physician has his pet remedies, his petmixtures, and if you would send round, as was done once by awealthy man many years &So, a set of symptoms with a demand

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for a prescription to twenty different physicians, you would get

twenty different prescriptions sent to you, unless you include any

homaopathic doctors, and then you would-and do-get the

same remedy for the same set of symptoms. This is true Science.

The therapeutic knowledge of docto,rs of medicine is unfortun-

ately contracting more and more; they despise the many drugs

handed down to them by their forefathers and only use the latest

products of the vast drug combines, such as the sulphonamides

for bacterial diseases or the latest drug, Penicillin, if the case

should prove sulphonamide-resistant.Sedatives of the aspirin o,r barbiturate group are freely pre-

scribed on the flimsiest pretexts for all sorts of diseases. Thus

there is certainly more therapeutic agreement among the doctors

of the duy than there was some decades ago. But is it not a fact

also that new and terrible diseases follow after these modern cure-

alls ? The list of diseases caused by one of the 7o odd varieties of

Sulphonamides is truly astounding.The cure of acute diseases seems worse than the actual original

disease itself. On the other hand, what do you find under homao-

pathic treatment ?Take lvhatever disease you like, whether infectious or o'ther-

wise ; homaopathic physicians can-and do-deal with it

prornptly and judiciously, and as Hahnemann puts it in his

Organon-his textbook of homaopathic philosophy-"This is

the right and proper way to cure : the highest ideal of a cure is a

rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health or removal and

annihilation of disease in its whole extent, with shortest, most

reliable and most harmless rvay on comprehensible principles."

Not so very long ago a doctor in general practice, a recent

convert to Homaopathy, was faced with a serious epidemic of

measles in the little town he practised in. He applied the newly

learned principles to his patients, and jubilantly wrote a little

while afterwards o{ the unexpected and marvellous results he

had : 3oo measles cases cured in record time with no deaths and

no co,mplications ! Can orthodox medicine beat this ?

Another doctor wrote that by givitg Belladonna to his scarlet

fever patients, the rash, sore throat and ternperature disappeared

within twenty-four hours, so that there lvas no need to, no,tify

these cases.Again in diphth erra, Homcnopaths have sent the throat swabs

to the bacteriological laboratories for examination, and by the

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time the positive result carne back, the throat had cleared up,the membrane had gone and the case was cured. There is a storyof a nurse with a diphtheric throat being sent to the FeverHospital when her swab was positive, after a dose of the indicatedhomaopathic remedy had been given. The next morning theMedical Officer rang up the Homaopathic Hospital to, enquirewhether a mistake had not been made, there was no sign of anydiphtheria. He was then shown the positive bacteriological slideand had to believe the diagnosis which had been made on thestrength of it and nolens uolens ! believe in the cure of the diseaseby Homaopathy.

Whooping cough also can be cut short by homaopathicremedies. I have seen it many times, and there are no complica-tions, and the children after two to three weeks of whoopirgcough under this treatment look well and bonny ! The homco,-pathic nosode or vaccine Pertussin or Coqueluchinuffi, which isthe French name for this nosode, wo,rks exceedingly well in theminute doses. I have given it in suspected and actually definedcases; I have tried it in institutions to prevent a further spreadand succeeded several times in limiting threatening outbreaks tothe first one or two cases. Those irritating and lingering caseswhere the whoop persists long after the custom ary six weeks,and r,r'hich as the old wives have it, will not stop "until May isout", clear up rapidly after a few doses of. Pertussin in the lzthor r 3th potency. So it r,r'orks in all stages of the disease : it pre-vents, it shortens, and also stops late sequelae. It goes well withother whoopitg cough remedies, which may be needed as specificindications arise; and if you begin the control of this disease withthis nosode, broncho-pneumonia does not arise, which is an ex-tremely fatal complication under orthodox treatment. The intensetickling of fauces and trachea which precedes the cough is soonlessened, the vomiting and nausea at the end of the cough is, asa rule, controlled within a week or two, and as a result meta-bolism is no't interfered rvith and loss of weight and wasting doesnot take place--which would rob whoopirg cough of nearly allits terrors. fn some early cases I have given one dose of. Drosera

3oth or zooth potency, and the disease stopped with miraculoussuddenness; the chief characteristics of Drosera are : spasmodiccough, frequent spells of barking cough, worse evenings and aftermidnight, vornits if he cannot bring up even a little phlegmand violent tickling cough in larynx. ft does not work in all cases

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of whooping cough; sorne cases have slightly different symptoms,and then other remedies are required : but P ertussin itself is asnear a specific as can be found anywhere.

Mumps is another epidemic 'disease,

which can be very un-pleasant. No medicine is required accorditg to the textbooks,even though there may be serious complications, and fatal caseshave occurred. The best treatment I know for it homaopathicallyis a remedy highly praised by Dr. Burnett, this is Pilocarpine,which, given in the 6th dilutio,n two or three times daily reducesthe temperature in twenty-four to'thirty-six hours, and diminishesthe swelling of the parotid gland in forty-eight to seventy-twohours, so that before the week is out, the parotid gland is normalagain. Pilocarpine is almost a specific for mumps and acts as an"organ" remedy on the parotid and sweat glands. We have beenthrough an extensive, though mild, e,pidemic since J.tly rg37,and all the thirty odd cases seen responded in the mannerdescribed; there were no complications in the series.

Last, but not least, there is pneumonia, one of the diseasesspecifically mentioned by the objectors to homaopathic treat-ment as being beyond the ken of the heretics. Professo,r Osler, inhis Principles and Practice of Medicine, says that pneumonia isthe most fatal of all acute diseases; killing more than diphtheriaand outranking even consumption as a cause of death. Mortalityranges frorn 20 to +o per cent. in orthodox hospitals, and it isspecifically said that pneumonia is a self-Iimited disease w'hichcan neither be aborted nor cut short by any known me,ans at ourcommand, and again, there is no specifc treatment fo, pneu-ntonia. We were taught in Edinburgh that the physician was ofvery little use at the bedside of a pneumonia patient; that it alldepended on the nnrse. Good nursing pulled a patient through;not the doctor's medicines. lVhat a to-do there was with a pneu-rnonia case in the wards. Special nurses were put on and relievedevery two to three hours, and each nurse looked after the onecase only; haJf-hourly feeds were given and religiously charted ;the patient's strength had to be kept up and supported; andwhat a triumph it lvas for the nurse, when on the ninth dty thecrisis occurred, and the patient's temperature dropped. Every-thing and everybody was hushed in the ward during these crucialmoments. When I was house physician in a hornaopathic hospi-tal I told the visiting physician with bated breath that a case ofright-sided pneumonia had been admitted to the ward, and was

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more than shocked that he treated it as quite an ondinary occur-rence and I did not believe him, when he cheerfully said, "Weshall cure her in less than a week"; and he spoke the truth. Infive days the crisis occurred, and the patient went out veryshortly afterwards ! I do no,t pretend to be an authority onpneumonia; but the six cases of pneumonia I looked afterin my practice all survived, so the percentage saved underhomaopathic treatment was Ioo per cent., or perhapsI was particularly lucky, and my six cases all belongedto the category of Bo out o{ every I oo that survive treatment. Butthey did not have any special nursing; these people were toopoor; one could only send in a district nunse night and morning,so they were no't saved by good nursitg; survival was due to theaction of the ho,maopathic medicaments they received.

Before me lies a book by two homaopathic physicians, Drs.A. and T. Pulford of Toledo,in Ohio, America, called Homeo-pathic Leaders in PneumoniA. They state in their preface thatthey have been treating 2+2 cases of pneuntonia of. ill types anddegrees of seuerity: some coming directly frorn and others hauingbeen confirmed in the diagnosis by allopaths with but threedeaths: a rate of r.4 Fer cent. They Say, that they can hardlyunderstand a fixed minimum death rate of 25 per cent. muchless a maximtrm death rate of 95 per cent. in a disease as readilyamenable to the proper remedy as is pneumonia.

You can believe it or not ! but seeing is believing-one hasseen pneumonia cases having the crisis as early as the third duy,and none were later than the fifth duy.

So Osler is proved wrong : pneumonia ls and can be limitedand can be cut short by the correctly indicated remedy. Ortho-dox medicine has at last scored a bull in pneumonia and cantriumphantly point to the reduction in the death rate of pneu-monia since the use of various Sulphonamide preparations fromthe old rate of eo-4o deaths for I oo people attacked to the latestfigures of B per cent. A great achievement, f admit, but theirresults are still not as good as the highest results amongst thecases of pneumoni a treated at the Homaopathic Hospitals. In aseries of 24,ooo cases treated at these hospitals, the highest deathrate was just about 5 per cent., and these included cases treatedwith serums; the purely homaopathically treated cases showeda death rate of 3 per cent. and one homaopathic doctor achieveda death rate of r.5 per cent. in a series of several hundred cases.

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Can somebody enlighten me why cases of pneumoni a treatedand cured with Sulphonamide so frequently develop a secondand even a third attack within a few months ? And why does itleave most of the individuals "cured" by it so weak that theyrequire weeks of convalescence to get over the effects of the cure ?And why do a large percentage develop o,ther serious andhitherto unknown blood diseases after it ? And why is it that acertain percentage die suddenly and unexpectedly, shortly afterthe supposed cure-of heart failure ? Homaopathically treatedcases do not show any of these complicatio,ns.

Another example of the o,ld saying, I suppose. "The diseasewas successfully treated, but the patient died."

HOMG,OPATHY II{ DE,NTISTRY

Ar the Dispensary some time ago, a little girl was brought to mynotice with a swollen face followirg a dental operation with thefollowing symptoms: pain in jaw with stiffness and difficulty inopening the mouth. Arnica 30 in three or four doses was givento her, and she was asked to, show herself to the dentist nextmorning. As I had predicted, the swelling had go,ne entirely, thesocket of the extracted tooth was clean and not inflamed, as ithad been the previous duy, and the dental surgeon was muchimpressed with the rapidity of the cure. A week or two' later theself-same dent'ist sent an S O S message to me : "Can you giveme the medicine which cured the little girl so quickly ? A privatepatient of mine has also got a srvollen face, a great deal of painand inability to open her mouth." A stock prescription of. Arnica6 was sent to her with instructions "to be used as o{ten as theurgency of the individual case required and medicine to bestopped when the patient was feeling better". The dentist re-ported a few days later that the patient was extremely astonishedand gratified with the almost instantaneous relief she experiencedafter taking one of these tasteless pills. "f could open my mouthwithin twenty minutes of taking the first dose, and I felt betterafter each dose I took. Much better than all the mouth washes,and I do no,t feel so ill either, as I usually do after the usualdopes.tt

Still a third example : this time to show that Arnica is just asefficacious in preventing bruising, as in removitg it. A do,ctor'swife had several enormous fangs removed under a general anaes-thetic. They proved to be rather mo,re stubborn than was at firstexpected, and previous experience had taught my dentist friendthat pain and an ugly disfigurement were bound to develop; sovery diffidently, seeing this was a doctor's wife, she asked herwhether her husband would mind her taking somethitg whichwould prevent all this unnecessary suffering. Being reassured onthis matter, she gave her Arnica 6, one pill, and asked her tocome back in a couple of hours. Everything appeared normal, ro

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swelling had occurred, so to make doubly sure, she offered heranother pill of Arnica. "What is that, what are you giving her ?"interjected her doctor husband. On being shown the bottle ofArnica, which was labelled, my lond exclaimed, "Oh ! you cangive her as much of that as you like, that won't make any differ-ence." The dentist quietly remarked, "One pill will do, you willsee." And he did see, the next morning his wife woke up havinghad no pain and minus any swelling. Did it convince the doctor ?Oh, dear ro, that was "just an accident, don't you know."

Hremorrhages will occur, even in the best regulated dental sur-geries, after extractions, and they are a great trial to everybodyconcerned, includitg anxious parents and frightened children.And the doctor who is called in, usually in the early hours of themornins, is naturally blaming the unfortunate dentist, and as forhospital house-surgeons, their language is more than lurid andilluminating, as to what they think of. thal dentist. Well, Homco-pathy does not leave one high and dry, even during such emer-gencies as a dental cavity that simply won't stop bleeding. Noneed for packs or stitching up the cavity, or apptying adrenalin,or any other violent method, as recommended by the highestauthorities. All that is needed is a pill or two of Phosphorus,almost any potency, 6r, or 6, or 30 or even higher. The bleedingjust stops, as if by u miracle after Phos.

I remember years ago being called to a case of dentalhrcmorrhage. Everywhere was go,re, huge clots inside the mouth,the mother was weeping, as she thought her darling's last hourhad come, and not absolutely sure whether a mere woman couldbe trusted to cope with a serious case, especially when all I didwas to produce a case of medicine and pop a wee powder intothe child's mouth. This was repeated every ten minutes, thenevery quarter of an hour and in an hour's time the mouth wasnice and clean. The mother was quite impressed. As for thenurses, You should hear them on the subject of these pills. "Dothey work ? Of course they do, we should not like to be withoutthem, they halve our anxiety and there are no anxious motherssending up messagss--(fs my child all right ?' "

So I should advise all and sundry who falt into the dentist'shands to equip themselves with Arnica for pain and swelling, andwith Phosphorus for any bleeding which may distress them sub-sequently, and the visit to the dentist will be robbed of half itsfear and anxiety.

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One rernembers a rather alarming experience : a lady was

obliged to have one of her lower teeth out and was given P hos-

phoru.r previously to prevent any bleeding, and I fancy, was told

lo take - Arnica 30 in repeated doses afterwards to prevent pain

and swelling. I was rung up in the afternoon and informed that

she was bleeding profusely and had been told by the local doctor

to go to hospital for its arrest and that probably suturing would

be necess ary. She wished for horncopathic treatment, so I went

along prepared with my box of tricks, i.e. medicine case and

surgical aids such as I thought I might require, needles, sutures,

etc. On arrival I found a typical picture of a patient after severe

hremorrhage, pde exsanguinated, restless. On examination, I

found oozing from the dental cavity and a spurtitg artery frorn

underneath the tongue, evidently due to a laceration from the

dental gag. It would have been a very difficult iob to Put a

suture on the tongue without an anrcsthetic, all on my own, as I

lvas, and I felt tempted to give in and send it to the surgeon.

Pressure applied for hours had not been sufficient to' stop the

bleeding. I tried Phosphorus rffi, a dose every ten minutes, it

stopped the bleeding from the cavity of the tooth, but not the

bleeding from the lacerated tongue. Was Homaopathy no good

after ati I I remembered this patient was ordinarily a Lachesis

patient, this was her constitutional remedy, and this snake virus

Iro,m the Surukuku snake o,f South America had been proved to

act well in hrcmorrhages: so Lachesis 30 was given. Almost

immediately after the first dose the bleeding slackened, became

paler and coagulation took place in the spurting artery. I saw it

myself before my very eyes ! Of course it was only a very small

artery, it is true-I repeated the Lacheses in fifteen minutes, but

coagulation was complete in ten minutes. I waited for so,me time,

in Cur. there should be a recurrence : the cure held good, and

except for exhaustion and weariness and a swollen lower ju*, it

was inevitable that there should be swel[rg, after a]l the manipu-

lations the poor lady had put up with : the patient had no bad

after-effects. Rest in bed and further doses of L,a,chesis finished

this adventure. One was grateful again for the power that

Homaopathy gave in such an alarming case as hamorrhage

always is. There are many haemorrhage remedies, and the wise

physician will carefully memorize all the symptoms of each one :

Ittis knowledge will stand him in good stead in an emergency.

Cof ea is another remedy which may be required after dental

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extraction. These are highly excitable, nervous people, who findpain unbearable; there is the constant cry "Do not touch me. Icannot bear you to come near me." They feel the very vibrationsof the floor boards from anyone walking across it. Wide awakeall night, extremely restless, increased sensibility to touch, jut,noise and light. Feel the cold very much, worse cold wind, sensi-tive to fresh air and to draughts. Yet with all this pain in the jawsand the mouth, there is relief fro,m holding co,ld water in themouth; the colder the better. Cannot drink warrn tea or touchwarrn food, without its making the pains much wo,rse.

It is astounding how quickly the pain and swelling disappearin those hypersensitive people after a few doses of Cof ea) even insuch low potencies as 3x or 6x.

2-TMOTMD

HOMG,OPATHY IN OBSTE,TRICS

Mehry people have the mistaken idea that a pregnant woman isa sick woman, and should be treated as such, and take great careof herself-while the very opposite is, or should be, the case.

Nature has so arranged mattem that metabolism is increasedduring that time, mo,re blood is carried to the reproductiveorgans, ffid the circulation is improved, and a child-bearingwoman should look, and be, at her best. The curious part is : thathidden constitutional errors show themselves during that period,and therefore the best time to give real, worth-r,vhile constitu-tional treatment is during the nine months in which a mo,ther isbearing her child. There would be great benefit, not only tc themother, but also to, the child; two individuals are raised to ahigher state of normal good health, and thus not only the indi-vidual, but eventually the who'le race, could be improved.

What a tremendous field of activity lies before the Hornao-paths, if they are given the chance ! Antenatal clinics are helpful,so far as they go, but they only diagnose and point out anythingthat is wrong; the actual treatment is negligible.

Diet, of course, is of the greatest importance during this time;the o,ld wives' saying is : "a mo,ther should feed for two"-fus1this is entirely fallacious. One girl followed this advice with herfirst baby, and stuffed herself : lived on the fat of the land;rested frequently on the sofa, and did not take any exercise, or doany work in the house. The result was an immersc boy of r 5 lbs.,an extremely slow, difficult labour; instruments; the mother wasbadly f61n-and the baby died two days later of cerebralhrmorrhage.

An infant's weight can be regulated by the mother's diet. Thebest weight to arrive at for an easy labour is round about 6 lbs.These are lean babies, it is true, but there rvill not be a prelimin-ary loss of weight, as there is commonly, in heavier babies, duringthe first week; the infant starts to put on weight from the first.

The best diet during pregnancy is a strict lacto-vegetarian-fruitarian diet from at least three months onwards. If the mother

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cannot do without the fleshpots, fish two or three times a week upto six months might be allowed; on the whole it is better toforgo all fish, flesh, or fowl, of any kind.

The reward is great; the mother feels rvell; there will be notrouble during the actual labour; no instruments will be neces-sary; labour will be easy and short; the baby will be small, leanand compact; the head is soft and easily compressible, and it isa healthy baby, invariably. This has been proved to the writer'ssatisfaction throughout a period of tlventy years; seventeen yearsin general practice, and many years as Medical Officer of anAnte-natal Clinic-Frouided the mother carries out the instruc-tions given her.

It is difficult, of course, to convince the ordinary working-classmother that meat is unnecessary, and that she will not feel weakif she discontinues it; hence, the best results tvere obtained withsensible, middle-class parents, who understood one's reasons, andfaithfully followed instructions.

To particularize, briefly, diet should be on these lines : who,le-meal bread, porridge, whole bran, egss in moder2ll6n-not morethan one a day-and at least one pint of milk, daily. Any kind ofvegetables, conservatively cooked or steamed; raw salads-atleast one, daily. Even in England, salads are obtainable all theyear round, and at a reasonable cost, if you are content withwatercress, celery or tomatoes, swedes, parsnips, shredded andgrated carrots, turnips, hearts of cabbage, sprouts and cauli-flower, during the winter. Fruit there is, in variety; apples,oranges, grapefruit, lemcns, prunes, dates, figr; all soft fruits, inseason, cs much as can be taken; nuts, if well masticated, orgrated in a nut-mill. For cereals, tapio'ca,, rice, etc., and useBarbados sugar, not bleached white sugar. finally include whole-meal macaroni, cheese-preferably freshly-made cream cheeses-and you have a varied and interesting diet which is easily diges-tible. No meat juices, of course, should be used; only Marmite andsimilar vegetable extracts, for flavouring purposes.

This diet has been tried out effectively even in the cases ofwornen round about the age of forty, and the confinements wereeasy, and caused no anxiety.

No coffee and no stimulants should be taken, tea only in strictmoder'ation, and no other liquids except water, milk, barleywater and fruit juices.

Homceopathy should be the only medicinal treatment. As I

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have said before-the health of an expectant mother can bewonderfully benefited during this time, and if a wo'man feelswell cluring pregnatrcy, though ailing between her confinements,the precept of simple remedies and simple living will have beendriven home, and have its favourable repercussions in raising thestandard of general health in the community.

A prescripticn of Psorinum during pregnancy will improveher general health after the birth of the child.

The writer recalls, some time "go,

being asked to wa,tch overa confinement case from the beginnirg. This was a lady who hadpreviously been her patient, and been treated for anremia andpretubercular debility. She looked unhealthy, pale and pasty,with greasy skin and hair, and a spotty face; buxom and well-developed, with too much fat on her body. Town life neversuited her, she declared; she always felt tired and done-up : verysleepy; in character she was reserved, so'mewhat sullen and sulky.A few doses of, Calc. carb. 3o, and later Tuberculinumrhelped tobring colour to her cheeks.

Then she decided to marrl, and have a child, if she could betreated homaopathically all the time. I made a pact with thehusband that no allopathic drugs, and no antiseptics were to beused. I was willing to try the experiment, even though we hadbeen trained to use all sorts of strong lotions, etc., in midwif.rypractice.

The patient was put on a, very strict diet from about twomonths onwards, and persisted with it bravely; her healthimproved greatly. Round about five months she developed somesymptoms of indigestion, and mental symptoms-aversion to herhusband, irritability, fits of temper; threatened to do herself aninjury during one of these turns; was indifferent whether she hada baby or not, and so forth. She was given Sepi,a xffi., and theirritability, temper and indifference disappeared. Life rvas sweetand pleasant once more, she found ! A little later there was somecolic and abdominal pain, and slight constipation, with the sen-sation of drawing like- a string from the norril-which Plumbunt

30 removed. Nothing further of interest developed, except thatshe lost weight, her looks improved, and she felt well. Then thegreat duy arrived. f had sufficient faith in Homaopathy to feelthat everything would go well, even though the orthodox mid-wives were shocked at the absence of all antiseptics; no lyso,l, nodetto'l at all; no mercurial lotions ! They cast their eyes Heaven-

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wards; and thought we were slightly demented-and feared thateverything would go wrong. We, of course, took all aseptic pre-cautions; had plenty o{ boiling water and aseptic dressings, withgloves, coats and surgically clean towels, etc.

The actual labour lasted less than eighteen hours, from begin-ning to end; very good-for a first baby ! Duritg the secondstage she developed some sympto,ms of restlessness; the painswere slow and ineffective; she threw herself about, would not lieon her back; flung off her clothes, complaining of heat; wantedthe windows open; could not endure any more ! One dose ofPulsatilla high, and she settled down serenely, and the painsbecame more powerful.

The baby, a nice boy, arrived without any trouble, and asthere was some hremorrhage, Arnica was given, which quicklysettled the bleeding and brought down the placenta. There was

a slight tear, unfortunately, owing to the broad shoulders of the

boy, and we had to put in trvo or three stitches. Arnica internally,

and C alendula lotion, externally, sprayed neat on to the perin-

eum, and dressings moistened in diluted C alendula lotion,

applied outside, hastened the healing pro,cess. We had no rise in

temperature, ro malaise; bowels moved easily; after three days

the breast milk came in quite norrnally, and we had no anxiety

the rvhole time. Nor was there any sign of sepsis; everything

healed beautifully and soundly, without fuss or unnecessary inter-

ference, left to the good offices of Nature. Incidentally, the

midwife was astonished to find how quickly the perineum healed

H'ith C alendul,a, and how little vaginal discharge there was.

In another case, where everything appeared to be going satis-

factorily up to a few days before labour set it, the husband

wished to have the best "specialist" poutible; forthwith the

patient was sent into the private wards of a teaching hospital.

There she suffered a fractured rib; labour was slow and

delayed, and she was given various injections to hasten matters;

then there was extensive laceration, a rise in temperature, threat-

ened pyremia. Subsequently, there was backache, lasting for

months, and a chronic vaginal discharge remained behind for

nearly a year--until the patient recommenced homaopathic

treatment. This removed the backache and leucorrhca, which

was due to congestion of the uterus, but no,t until she had taken

Fraxinus americano and a few doses of Sepia, did the trouble

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finally clear up. I.{o douches should be used in such cases; theless interference there is, the better for the patient.

In the writer's vierv, the increasing hospit ahzation of maternitycases is wrong. The patients are taken from their accusto,medsurro,undings into the wards, where there is likely to be a con-centration of septic gerrns, and the danger of septic infection ismuch greater. In America, where nearly every mother goes intohospital to have her baby, the maternal death rate is nearlydouble-and some years mo're than double-that in England.

In consequence, in the past year or trvo, there has been so'rne-thing of a uolte face, and mothers are being advised to arrangefor their confinements in their own homes.

Let me instance, however, a maternity horne in South Londonwhere in l5,ooo births there has no,t been a single maternaldeath !

Frorn the beginnitg the mothers are carefully instructed in theprinciples and practice o{ vegetarian dietary, and required tofollor,v it cluring the period of pregnancy and lying-in.

Again, in cne of the southern suburbs of London, there is amaternity home combining Homaopathy with fruitarian andvegetarian diet, and here also there have been no maternaldeaths.

Notwithstanding, many obstetric specialists declare that dietin the pre-natal period makes no difference at all; that a mixeddiet is necessary for the well-being of mother and child.

Time proves all things, and slowly but surely, the meatlessdiet in pregnancy should come into its own ! Variety enough isoffered in the garnered wealth of Mother Earth herself-sun-ripened fruit and grain, nutritious roots, corning to slow maturityabove and belorv the soil in the ordered sequence of their seasons.

And how much illness, how much anxiety and discomfortcould be averted if womankind, generally adopted a rationalhealth diet, coupled with homaopathic treatment, in pregnancy.The birth rate rvould rise and the nation be po,tentially wealthierin a rising generation of sturdy children. There would be lessneurosis, fewer nervous and physical wrecks, with childbirthbereft of its terrors; rvith healthy, huppy periods of pregnancy.Our mothers would not dread their confinements, and the all-round gain to the co,mmunity wotrld be incalculable.

The maternal death rate in Great Britain has dropped from

+.2 per r,ooo at which figure it had stayed for ye?6, to 2.5 per

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I,ooo in the last four years, ncarly half of the rate of what it wasbefore lg3g. And the great alteration has been the change inthe diet. The pregnant mothers get a prio'rity ration of I pint ofmilk per duy; they get extra orange juice and an issue of cod-liver oil and three eggs per week, and owing to the shortage ofmeat and fish, they have to live chiefly on a diet of vegetables.

And again, it is of interest to note that the birth rate hasrisen steeply; many more people consume raw vegetable stuff,both raw green leaves and raw grated roots. The dietetic chemistshave discovered that green leaves contain a large proportionof vitamin E, which increases the fertility rate. Flave not thetheories I propounded above proved to be true in praxis ?

But, I suppose, as soon as meat, fish, etc., will become plenti-ful, the lessons learnt in this war will be forgotten and everybodywill return to the fleshpots.

And against this "Back to Nature" method as advocated byHomaopathy, consider the thousands of pounds spent onresearch laboratories, in the endeavour to, find the cause ofmaternal sepsis-the dread germ would promptly become innocu-ous, if the mothers could be induced by right food and simpleliving, these natural correctives, to forge their own arrnouragainst the onset of disease. Forget about the bacteria, they areonly the scavengers o,f the disease, not the cause of the disease,help to eliminate them by a clean diet of fruit juices and thecorrect ho,moeopathic rem.dy, and do not use any chemicals anddrugs made from coal tar and aniline dyes which are uncertain,and sometime,s deadly, ir their action.

There is a book on HomeoNtathy in Obstetrics by Dr. Guern-sey, which may appropriately be mentioned here. On somecounts it may be regarded as "old-fashioned," but I should notlike to be without it. It is most helpful, and covers all the eventu-alities, sho,wing also, that much operative interference might besaved if the right homaopathic remedies were applied, and thusmuch morbidity, and possible fatalities, could be avoided.

Scattered over Great Britain and Ireland, the Continent, andthe United States, there are medical men and women who haveproved by clinical experience the advantages of Homaopathy inmaternity work and the production of healthy offsprins; and insucceeding generations, one hopes that ultimately the hcmao-pathic principles may be universally applied.

HOMG.OPATHY IS THE, BE.ST PRE,VE,NTIVE,

PnnvnNTroN is in the air; nutrition clinics are springirg up; milkand extra nourishment are provided free or for next to nothingto expectant mothers; free advice on all kinds of health topicsis broadcast on the wireless : but as alw"yS, the surest and safestkind of prevention is being ignored : Homaopathy. It may be acontroversial topic, but I know this : that along with simpleand conservatively cooked vegetables; some raw food daily, suchas salads which are always available in some form or other all theyear round; and fruit, wholemeal bread and only a modicum ofmeat and fish-homaopathic treatment would prevent many ill-nesses which come on in old age or even at an earlier stage-thatis in the forties and fifties. In looking back over the decades onecan recall several instances of people one has kept in contact withfor anything from eighteen to twenty years, where one haswatched their medical histories :

There is No. r, who is a member of a decent-sized family, fourgirls and two boys; she is the eldest and has had homaopathictreatment for nigh on eighteen years, with only a very shortbreak in betlve.en. She has been subject to lumbago and sciatica,which when treated allopathically, crippled her fo,r well over afortnight; the next dose of rheumatism she had she was treated"scientifically" accorditg to the homaopathic principles withRhu,s. Tox. and Bryonia, and it only incommoded her for two orthree days. A non-meat diet for a month prevented a recurrence.

Severe colds and influenzal bronchitis were another trouble,always coming cn early in Januzrl, and keeping her at home fora couple of lveeks or so, and leaving her with a cough of severalweeks' duration with pain and aching at the right base of thelungs, until she was asked to report at the first rvarning of theenemy, when Carbo u-eeetabilis or Br3tonia or Ipecacuanha inrepeated doses would soon clear up the influenza and even pre-vent the spread to the lungs. Kali carb., as a constitutionalremedy, rvhen seen the first time at the end of the influenzal

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attack-cleared up the right-sided, undissolved pneumonia in aremarkably quick time.

But the greatest bugbear in the daily life of this lady was themenstrual suffering, the drenchirg periods, the pain and theexcessive tiredness and exhaustion during this time. She receivedvarious remedies, Ipecac. and Sepia most frequently, whenevernecess ary. For a whole year she was seen weekly after an acci-dent to her right ankle, a very severe sprain of the ankle liga-ments and ankle joint, rvhich threw the locomotor organs out ofgear for many weeks : foot and l.g muscles and the hips werecrippled, and for months she limped. However, Arnica, followedby Rhus. tox., Ruta and later Calc. carb., all in repeated dosesalong with regular mass"ge, manipulations and radiant light andre-education of the muscles by means of the Bristow electric coil,made a sound job of the torn ligaments and stretched muscles;and there is now a perfect joint, no limp; no recurrent rheuma-tism reminds her of the old accident. Homaopathy and physicaltherapy renroved all that. Now she has gone through the meno-pause easily and comfortably, without any distress-in fact, shehad no trouble at all. She feels better than she has done for years,and well able for a hard day's work. She has hardly any greyhairs, and looks vears younger than her age. Her mother con-fesses she is surprised how well she looks, and that she herself atthat age was always ailing and always seedy.

Now the interesting part is to compare this lady's health withthat of her three sisters. They all had trouble with theirperiods; heavy losses, pain, etc. The one sister developed anovarian cyst and had all the generative organs removed; theother sister had fibroids and had a lar,ge portion of the u[s1us-and the 16sf-cut out. The youngest now is going the same wzf tshe has been or is being curetted previous to a, doubtfultumour ? Is it coincidence that the only one who had homao-pathic treatment escaped the operations her sisters had ? Sheherself knows and sives praise where it is due : to Homaopathy,and is thankful that she escaped all the trouble and pain, andworse, follo'rvirg an operation.

If this were the only case, one might szl, it was a coincidence :but one hears it again and again, and one reads how homao-pathic physicians save their patients from the operatirg table;and while doing so,, prevent chronic invalidism and turn the

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patients into much stronger and healthier individuals : true pre-vention indeed !

The lady I have just been talking about, has for years nowfo,llowed the cliet described previously, eats freely of green vege-tables, drinks the vegetable water, partakes of salads and fruitdaily, and enjoys therefore excellent health, and is an advertise-ment to Homcopathy and proper diet.

No. 2 was a younger woman, when she became a convert, atfirst unknowingly, until she experienced the benefits of Homao-pathy and became a Cevotee. She was thin and delicate andalways suffering frorn colds and chills, which swiftly developedinto influenza. In f.act, she was one of the kind who always had

a clinical thermometer close at hand; it was as much a necessityto her as the powder puff for her shiny nose. Early oil, sheinsisted on being given a course of anti-catarrhal vaccines whichapparently for a season or two prevented these severe chills; but

when she was taken firmly in hand and had regular treatmentwith the sugar pills, there was very little doubt in her mind that

Hommopathy acted with greater certainty than the old way oftreatment. In f.act, she expected to get well in twenty-four or at

least forty-eight hours, and usually it was so. The only time shewas ill for three weeks was when, during the holidays, she devel-

oped an attack of mumps with a temperature of rc+ degrees for

days, and was kept severely in bed and sweated and purged by

a "regular." Much to her disgust her family would no,t hear of

anything except the local do'ctor's treatment, as they preferredhis nostrums to Ffomaopathy. The result was she came back to

town thoroughly weakened and suffered fro'm extreme depressionand mucous colitis for months : this depression is a common

sequel of muffips, rvhether due to the treatment or to the mumps

itself, I do not know. All I know is, that homaopathic treatment

of mumps does not produce this depression. One has just had

experience of a minor epidemic of mumps, and not one of the

children developed it, and they were well in less than a week. But

this is by the by, and the full story will be told ano,ther time, I

hope.Lady No. 2 left with colitis and depression after the mumps

incident, had specimens taken of the excreta and Bacillus

Morgan being found, a hornaopathic preparation was made of it

in the 3oth and 2ooth dilutions, and a-fter a co'urse of this remedy

followed by Pulsatilla 3o and 2oo, she recovered completely after

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three months from bo,th colitis and depression. Her recovery wasnot exactly helped favourably by hair-raising tales of all heracquaintances o,f the vario,us cases of colitis they knerv of, whohad been ill for ye&ffi, some five, some ten, some eighteen years,without any prospect of relief. Yet Homaopathy conqueredagain, and in three months she was well of her colitis. Another ofthis lady's trials was the monthly period; the dysmenorrhcea andthe nausea and vomiting and collapse were always very exhaust-itg every month. Various remedies were required, Colocynth,l{ux uomica and lpecac. were of the greatest help at varioustimes; in f.act, Ipecacuanha was a constant stand-by, until con-stitutional treatment with Pul.ratilla, Calcarea and Lycopodiumproduced painless and easy periods-a great relief to a wornanwho has got to earn her living. She has developed physically andmentally in the last fifteen years, since she got to know of thisdisease-preventing treatment, and has gained well over two stonesin weight and is at the top of her form; not always tired and sickand exhausted, continually complaining and ailing.

No. Z has only had an eleven years' record with homaopathictre atment, the first contact was during an attack of Germanmeasles, which only lasted a very few days, and she was back ather job in ten days, after repeated doses of Pulsatillo and SuI-phur. An exccllent record; one knows that during the Great War,hundreds of women in Government offices developed Germanmeasles, and they were ill, sometimes for weeks; and some evendied. German measles is not a joke in a grown-up person andcan make one seriously ill. Afterwards it was discovered that thislady was a very rheumatic subject, always liable to rheumatismin her limbs and rheumatic throats, which came on during andafter wet rveather; Rhus. tox. 6 was prescribed because of thisrheumatic basis, and it wrought better than she thought possible.These throats used to make each winter a very unpleasant time,a season to be dreaded; one rn'inter even, she was in bed for quitea long period and away frorn her work for many days.

After taking Rhus tox. the throats used to disappear quickly;so that she got into the habit of keeping a stock of Rhus tox. ather home and taking a dose or two at the first premonitory signrvith very huppy results. She remarked the other d*y that she hadnot spent a day in bed for over cleven years and had never beenoff duty all that time ! She had a touch o,f a septic throat somesummers ago rvhich was different frorn the usual rheumatic

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affiiction. It was a septic condition; the tonsils were inflamed,dark red in colour and huge, entirely painless, even though theywere so inflamed. Baptisfa seemed to improve at first, but it wasonly after one discovered the great tenderness on the outside,the fear of being touched, the aggravation from a jar and fromturning the head, that one recognized BelladonnA, and BeIl. twoor three doses rapidly cleared up this throat. Her constitutionaldrug was Sil,ica, and she responded very nicely to it. Even as achild and right r.rp to date, she had a tendency to slip and fall tothe ground; her body bore many marks of these humiliatingexperiences, especially her poor knees were always in the wars.She felt the cold very much and loathed the winters, as theymade her feel so miserable, and psycho'logically, she was diffident,somewhat lacking in confidence, kept herself in the background,was afraid to assert herself. All this spelt Silica, and Silica ininfrequent doses made a vast difference all round, even to hercharacter !

Last winter after a good deal of domestic stress and strain, shedeveloped a diffuse urticaria, all over her body which was veryirritatins, worse after washing, she also kept on complainingabout feeling so cold right inside, her very bones, all her "in-nards" felt icy co,ld. One gave Sulphur rm mainly on the symp-tom; urtic aria worse for washing; and the skin eruption clearedup, and also much to my surprise, this icy cold feelirg. On look-itg up Sulphur in Kent's Repertory, one saw Sulphur under therubric, "i.y cold feeling in the bones and inner parts," and I hadalways thought of Sulphur as a hot remedy, a remedy feeling theheat unduly. Verily Sulphur is a protean rem.dy, and ore cannotget on without it.

This friend of mine, when the next autumn came along, startedto complain again about the cold, horv terribly cold it was, longbefore it was necessaty, I thought. However, I promised her aremedy to lvarm her up, and she duly got Silica xm. High poten-cies do not work, some folks say; but believe it or no,t, a real coldspell with ground frost and cold northerly winds came alongwithin twenty-four hours of her being given this dose of Silicaxm; and I anxiously asked : "What about this cold weather ?"-and to my surprise she replied that she had not felt it at all, eventhough she had been out visiting all duy. It worked within twenty-four hours, yes, as quickly as all that ! Suggestion maybe, but shedoes not take kindly to suggestion now, not since she has been put

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on Sitica. No, ro, she has quite a mind of her owll. So you see,

the right homeopathic medicine warms up a person, by acting

on the heat-regulatirg mechanism of the body. Among other

things it acts on the character and changes and alters it so that

after some months you would hardly recognize her or him as the

same individual.My theme was prevention of disease by homaopathic means.

Well, this lady's rheumatism has cleared up; her so,re throats are

a thing of the past; the lumbago and rheumatism of the leg and

shoulder muscles never get a hold of her now; so Ho'mreopathy

has prevented the rheumatism from becomitg chronic, has pre-

vented heart disease, which follows so frequently after rheuma-

tism. Is that not sufficient to show that the drugs applied

accordirg to the rule "like cures like"-asf as preventives of

disease ?Another curious action of the Silica in this particular case was

its action upon the sweat glands. The perspiration under the arms

\ ras profuse, very strong and unpleasant all the )leat round, even

in thi winter. Various remedies had been applied to prevent this

body odour with very little effect; but Silica also banished this

unpleasant symptom in the correct hornaopathic manner by

.,riing from r,vithin, not by suppressing it and closing up the

pores of the skin with local applications. Now Silica is not always

ift. remedy to banish body odour : it might be any other remedy.

You must remember that Homaopathy individualizes; each

person must be taken as a single unit, and studied acco'rdingly;

and body odour is only one comrnon sympto,m and not a, very

important one-except to the patient-from a prescriber's point

of view. So body odour can be removed by any remedy which

coveru the important symptoms of the particular patient. And

that is where the genius of the prescriber colnes it, to discover

these principal symptoms. And by uncovering these symptoms

with the right remedy or sequence of right remedies-one can

and does do true preventive work; one is enabled to prevent

serious internal diseases. One can prevent heart disease, tuber-

culosis, etc. , ye&, even cancer can be prevented in the early days.

HOW TO CURE, TONSILLITIS

TnB seaso,nable indispositions, such as feverish chills and tonsil-litis, attacked us very early in autumn 1933, very largely due tothe hot summer and the prolonged drought. The streets werefull of gerrn-laden dust, and the Public Health authorities weresomewhat niggardly rvith watering the pavement. Result : out-breaks of "throats."

I speak feelingly, as I was a victim myself. It started with afeeling of extreme tiredness, headache, backache and heat pluschill and shiverirg on moving about. This suggested to me myold friend in acute troubles-l/ux nomicA. No good, the lassitudedid not gc, the chilliness disappeared; only a few symptoms wereremoved. It meant trying to find the lvho,le picture of the acuteremedy. I then no,ticed that my comfortable bed felt very hard,unusually so; rny body was bruised, as if I had had a fall;my throat was aching, and the pain extended into my ears;I could not swallow hot tea,, but liked cold orange juice.

The tonsils were enormous, brilliantly red and studded with largeyellow pustules, a typical Phytolacca throat. One dose o'f. Phyto-lacca 30 lvas taken, and within tlvelve hours all the yellowpustules had disappeared, the temperature had dropped and,after repeatirg the Phytolacca every twelve hours, first in the

3oth potency and later in the zooth, I was able to return to myduties after three days. No septic gargles, no nasty throat paintswere required; it was a rapid, painless recovery.

I had quite a co,llection of acute cases of tonsillitis round aboutthat time, and they all required different remedies. There wasthe young wolnan r,vith the common symptoms of pain on slval-lowing, dryness of throat, enlarged purple tonsils, commonsymptoms to tonsillitis that is generally found in this disease. Theother sympto,ms were individual ones and were used to find thecorrect remedies in each case. Her inflammation first started onthe left side, and she could not bear warm drinks, could notswallow tea at all because of the choking it induced, saliva cameaway in long strings, and she felt worse during the night, rvoke

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up with clutchirg of the throat . Lachesis 30, four doses, settled

her so that in twenty-four ho,urs she could be pronounced well. I

had another almost identical-lookittg sore throat, but it started

on the nght side, and the child liked warm drinks. I could get

nothing else out of the child, but Lycopodium 6, four doses only,

soon put the youngster right.The worst case of acute tonsillitis I treated would not respond

to the ordinary remedies; I tried Phytolacca, I tried Mercury

because of the extremely dirty tongue, the extreme prostration

and the offensive odour from the mouth, but neither would do,

even though cxhausting sweats were present as H'e11. The patient

was content to lie there and gave abso,lutely no h.lp. "I have a

sore throat and can't swallow, and you do the rest"; that was the

attitude.After looking at her for several davs and trying various drugs,

I saw M ercurius protoiodatus in her case. The right tonsil began

by being inflamed, it spread to the left side which suggested

Lycopodium, but she did not like warrn drinks, cervical and

parotid glands were tremendously swollen and tender. You could

hardly see the throat on account of the accumulation of sticky

mucous. The tongue was thickly coated at the base with thick

yellowish fur. T'here was nausea at the sight of food, and a most

penetrating offensive odour exuded from the patient. The abdo-

men was hard and painful to touch, and an almost complete

stoppage of the bowels was present. Only tiny nodules were

passed, and they only carne away after great straining.A doctor friend of hers saw her on a visit of compassion and

considered she would be ill for at least a fortnight. Well, AtI er'

curius protoiodatus ront soon made a great difference. Almost

overnight it all cleared up, throat better, spots on tonsils gone,

voice not thick any more, tongue cleaner, offensive odo'ur hardly

noticeable. This derivative of M ercury did the trick, where the

ordinary M ercury would not touch. Twenty-four hours after

M ercurius protoiodatus had been given, the patient enjoyed a

decent dinner and asked for more, and within a week she was

back at her work. The M ercurius protoiodatus had to be repeated

several times, three-hourly first, then three times a day, and after

three days a dose was given, whenever the offensive odour

reappeared.This case reminds me of another I had some years &go, a

quinsy. The patient luy like one dead, no reaction, could not

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swallow anythins, only half co,nscious, the left side was mainlyaffected, there was a profuse flow of saliva, and the fauces weredark red. She seemed to be sinking from the acute toxrcmiac-aus9d by the septic condition of the throat. f was very worried;should I call in a surgeon and have the abscess lanced ? I couldnot really see down the throat, as the mouth could not be opened.There was such a search in the Materia Medica books fbr theright thing. Eventually I gave Mercurius biniodatus rom) and doyou know, within ten minutes-it seems unbelievable-thepatient roused herself and said, "ft has broken." She retched andbrought up a large amount of foul-smelling pus. It just ran fromher, and it was astounding to see how quickly all signs of tox-rcmia disappeared. Death had been hovering very near; but thett.{ duy you would not have known her as the same person.

The other tonsillitis patient I sau' was different again. Stre hadagonizitg pains in the head, could not bear the light, the throatwas intensely recl and swollen, the face was very red and hot, andshe complained of her neck throbbirg. Ilettactonna was theremedy here, and it cleared up the throat in the usual manner.So you see ton."illitis is a very common, ev eryday malady; but wehave no specific. Yo,tt may have to choose one of many drugs.As so'on as you find the right medicine, the recovery is rapid.

I{o local treatment is required. Antiseptic paints, iodin. gurgles,hydrogen peroxide mouth washes, are unnecessary and, itr {act,delay the cure. I should advise perhaps a tepid compress roundthe throat on the outside, if the pressure can be borne. It is com-forting to many people. No solid food, lvhile the temperaturelasts, only fruit juices; orange juice and lemon juice are excellent.Absolutely the finest thing out for the throat that I know of, isqineapPle. The tinned stuff is ro, good. It must be fresh juice.Pineapples contain certain digestive principles which clear up themucous and the dirty tongue, membrane and septic patch-s onthe tonsils, also it is ver), rEfreshitg. After a clay or two the juicebecomes too astrinsent and it is better then to stop its ministrati,on.

N.B. A tea gargle is helpful when fruit juic.i are nor available.Add a cup of hot rvater to a teaspoonful of tea, boil for r 5minutes, uddittg more u,,ater when it ls boiling unuy. This makesa \'veak solution of tannic acid. Put one tablespoonful of this solu-tion in half a cup of hot rvater and gargle every four hours or so.

Tonsillitis is quite often f.atal. Patients may linger for over aweek in a state of almost complete coma, the weakness gets

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gradually worse and worse from the septic absorption and theinability to swallor,v. But, thanks to our wide choice of remedies,we can still bring the patient back-even from the very brink ofthe grave. Norv for a short r6sum6 of the principal drugs as theyaffect the throat :

Apis. Redness and swelling of throat with stinging and burn-itg pains, ameliorated by cold, like an erysipelas of the throat.The tongue is swollen, also the uvula is swo,llen and puffed, andit resembles a water blister; direction of the swelling is fro,m rightto left. The patient desires a cold room, dislikes heat, such as theopen fire. Fever without thirst.

N.B.-fn some dangerous throat conditions the inflammationis almost painless.

Belladonna. Another right-sided remedy. Throat dry, brightred, burning, unable to swallow, especially fluids which lrnay re-turn through the nostrils, suggesting paralysis of muscles ofdeglutition. High fever present, patient intensely hot, facered and burning, blood-vessels throbbirg, head throbbirg,pain in throat extends to ear) is sensitive to pain, sensitiveto light. Belladonna is very thirsty, craves for lemon juice; thereis tenderness and enlargement of glands of neck at the beginnittgof a simple tonsillitis; it often aborts it.

Arsenic. Prostration is marked, burning throat, thirsty forfrequently repeated sips of cold r,vater-is most typical fon Arsenic-restless and anxious, worse round about midnight or soon after.

Baptisia. Tonsils dusky, purplish red, great swelling, painlessthroat comes on very rapidly. Tongue swollen and offensive andpurple, covered with thick brown fur do,wn the centre, canswallow fluids, but not solids. General low state of patient whichcomes on very rapidly, extremely prostrated and rapidly sinksinto stupor. Delirious and confused, seems to feel there are twoof him.

Crotalus horridus. Left-sided throats with lor,v form of bloodpoisonirg. Bleeding from orifices of the body, body appearsmottled, yellow and blue, Sangrenous or diphtheritic throat, muchswelling of glands, impossible toswallowliquids, throat slightly con-stricted. Low pa-ssive delirium, mutterirg and mumblirg speech.

Lachesis. Left-sided or left to right. Sensation of fullness ofneck, difficult breathing, choking on going to sleep or swallowing,aggravation of throat symptoms from warm drinks, unable toswallow, pain worse empty swallowing; purple throat.

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Lac C aninum. Throat with alternating sides, right to left, andto right again, throat looks red and glazed and shiny with silver-grey deposit, pains relieved by sw-allowing cold or warrn drinks.

Lycopodium. Right-sided remedy or right to left, relieved fromswallowing warm drinks, opposite to Lachesis; and there is alsono aggravation during sleep, and no, constriction o,f throat. Painextends into ear (ut in Belladonna, Hepar, Lachesis, Lac cani-nu,m, P hytolacca).

Phytolacca. The vegetable lvlercury is flequently indicated insore throats, glands swollen, thick tenacious mucus, symptomsworse nights. Aching in all bones, body feels bruised and sore,bed feels hard. Mouth is fatid, tongue coated, swallowing coldliquids relieves pain, warm drinks aggravate pain (La,chesis). Painand stiffness in the cervical region.

AIercurius. Spongy throat, fullness and stiffness of neck, throatdry, swallowing is difficult, M ercurial o,dour marked. tonguethickly coated, takes imprint of teeth, sub-maxillary glands en-larged, dark red throat, acute prostration, weakness, offensivesweat, patient worse at night, trembling of limbs.

Mercurius protoiodatus. Strongly right-sided, remains on rightside, tongue very thickly coated with yellow or light brown base,excessive secretion of tenacious mucus in the throat, rvhich isdifficult to move, especially in the morning, offensive fatid odour,warm drinks aggravate pain (opposite Lycopodiunt), patient verylanguid and excessively tired, nausea at sight of food.

Mercurius biniodat?.t,s. Left to right, constant desire to hawk,a lump in throat, tenacious mucus, empty swallowing aggravates,glands swo,llen, fauces dark red, dreams troubleso,me, feels light-headed as if floating.

Hepar Sulphuris. Ulcers in throat, sensation of splinters orfish-bones in throat, pain extends to ear) on yawning and swal-lowing and turning the head, ameliorated by warrn drinks(Lycopodium), patient feels very cold, particularly affected eachtime he goes out in dry co'ld winds, or cold east winds. Fever withsweating and a desire to be covered up; profuse perspiration,yet he wants several blankets over him; objects to draughts, opendoors and windows.

Kali bichromicum. Has deep scooped-out ulcers on tonsils, thesaliva is sticky and stringy.

Since writing the above one has recalled several other adven-tures with tonsillitis. To me sore throat is like an undesirable

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neighbour, always near at hand or lurking around the cornerwhen least wanted. The most exciting personal encounter onehad tvas during a three months' clinical clerkship in a Contin-ental mental hospital. The authorities believed in keeping theirpatients warrn and coddled them unduly; open windows werefrowned upon, and one's duties kept one indoors. One duy Ifound myself laid out, delirious and with a rapidly formingquinsy. The head physician visited me four times a day as he wasso worried, temperature of ro+ degrees, he murmured and shookhis head. He ordered salicylates and throat compresses. Onerecalls the total disregard of his instructions, the nursing atten-tion was just nil, o,ne was severely left alone. After thirty-sixhours of this, ffiy professional pride and love of life roused me upto make an effort to help myself. So one of the patients onparole was sent out surreptitiously and smuggled in some Bella-donn,a gx and Mercurius dulcis Sx, which I took alternatelythree-hourly alter the good old fashion of the earlier Ho,mceo-paths. I staggered into the bathrooffi, I remember, and dampingbathtowels, applied a rough and ready wet compress roundback and chest. To the visiting doctor's great surprise, the tem-perature was down next morning, and the quinsy resolving fast.He could not make it cut at all and prophesied I should be inbed over Easter, lvhich was five days ahead. f smiled feebly, ffidtwo days later he had to give permission to set up, as I was sowell and clamouring to be up. One also recalls his order to theSteward's department to supply two bottles of matrt beer as adaily tonic, which the attendant was delighted to consume in mystead. I was impressed by the quick results of the ho,mcopathicremedies. One duy nearly dead, and the next duy all danger pastand the quick recovery ! All this was put dou'n by the allopathicphysician to my strong constitution. After this adventure, onehastened to shake the dust of that unpleasant institution off one'sfeet, and left it for other shores, where fresh air, and plenty of it,was the order of the duy.

Recently I had another "do" with tonsillitis, quite out of theblue again it came, temperature, a thickly coated tongue, weari-ness, bruised backache and sore feeling all over the body : diffi-culty of swallowing at the root o'f the tongue and the big yellowpustules on the swollen left tonsil. No desire for food, hot drinksimpossible to swallow, but cold orange juice was most agreeable :Phytolacca, of course. As it was absolutely essential I should be

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back at work in twenty-four hours, I took it two-hourly in the

3oth po,tency. As a rule, one likes to experiment on oneself and

see how long one dose of the remedy will act and waits until the

action is played out. Within twenty-four hours I was perfectly

all right and was able to, give an hour's lecture, without my

throat giving out or a return of the old enemy: I took Phytolac_c_a

three times a duy for another two days, and then no more. No

other remedy was needed, ?s I felt perfectly fit and well.

After acute remedies or short acting remedies in an acute ill-

ness, specially after acute tonsillitis, or septic throats, the consti-

tutional remedy is usually required, and unless there are strong

indications for any particular remedy the best one to give for

tiredness, weakness, hot flushes on the slightest exertion, when

moving in bed or talking on the telephone or thinking of work,

is our great friend in need-S ulphur, which removes the damp

heat and uncomfortable tiredness and dislike for work in a very

short time. Alrvays remember, therefore, Sulphur in debility after

tonsillitis.One just recalls a doctor friend who had several bouts of

septic tonsillitis, while our orbits crossed. She was fond of dosittg

herself with salicylates and using the strongest antiseptic gargles,

such as chlorine gargles alternating with hydrogen peroxide, and

later taking quinine tonics to, pull herself into shape again. Dura-

tion of illnesi and o,ff-duty time ten days ! and under homao-

pathic treatment twenty-four to seventy-two hours !

Common sense would tell one that Homaopathy was a better

proposition for a person with any kind of sore thr"oat than the

orthodox way of treating it. Why not try it ?

Rheumatic sore throat is very common in this damp maritime

climate of ours. The usual suggestion for it is : excision of the

tonsils; unfortunately this does not prevent further attacks of

painful swollen throats, as one has proved to one's satisfaction

many times. The condition recurs again and again, and is rather

worse than it was before the removal of the tonsils. You see, as

we Homcopaths s"y, the disease product has been removed, but

not the .u.ri.; find the cause and the disease will disapp ear; and

the cause can be treated and removed by Homreopathy so easily

and painlessly. I have a friend who had been suffering from rheu-

matism of the throat for years, tonsils were duly removed, and

the throats went gaily or, crippling her and incapacitating her

many times. They usually came in wet weather (Calcarea, Dltlc.,

How to Cure Tonsillitis 43HtF., Rhus tox.); there was pain on swallowing food and onempty swallowing, warmth in general removed it (HeP., Rhustox.), there was stiffness of the throat (Rhus tox.) and adematousswelling of the throat, and a sensation, as if the throat was allswollen up and closed, chokirg sensation on swallowing liquidsand a grasping pain, as if something was being torn out of thethroat. -R hus tox. has all these symptoms, and Rhus tox. 6, givenin repeated doses, cured this throat very rapidly, and at theslightest return of these symptoms a dose or two suffices to abortan attack; and for ten years or so this enthusiastic believer inHomaopathy-has she not proved in herself how marvellouslyit works ?-has never had a day's illness or stayed away fromwork.

It is a joy to treat acute diseases with homaopathic remedies,they respond so quickly; and it is a pity that doctors in general,and the public do, not know more about it. Aspirin, and thevarious other brands of it, do not work anything like as well,chloride of potash gargles and internal medication are muchslower in action, and very disagreeable to take. I tried chlorideof potash on myself, while a house surgeon, on the recommenda-tion of my chief, but gave it up very soon for the pleasant, moreefficacious sugar pills.

In recurrent attacks of tonsillitis and septic throats each acuteattack should be treated by the indicated acute remedy; but theacute remedy is only short acting, it requires the constitutionalremedy to prevent a recurrence; there one has a variety ofremedies to choose from. Again, it might be Sulphur or Calcareaor Baryta carb. or Silica or Lycopodium o,r Phos. o,r any other,as indicated by the symptoms of the individual. One should nevergeneralize, and again, as I have said again and again, there areno specifics, and each individual has to be studied, until the cor-rect remedy is found, and enlarged septic tonsils will disappearwith the remedy, if you give it time. V.ry few tonsil operationsare necess ary and should be avoided as much as po,ssible. Buildup the patient first with his or her constitutional remedy, andduring the process of building up, even septic tonsils have beenknown to disapp ear; if the tonsils become fibrosed and refuse todisappear entirely, that is the time to operate; the enlarged tonsilsare just foreign bodies. Then what a saving of hospital beds thiswould mean, as nearly 25 per cent. of all operations are tonsiloperations.

EARACHE

EanncHE, like all bone pains, is described by its sufferers as

being maddening or excruciating in nature. The technical term

is acute middle-ear disease, it follows on after such acute diseases

as influ enza,, measles, scarlet fever, etc., of even ordinary tonsillitis

or exposure to draughts and strong winds. A common cause

rro*rdays is in motorists : people sitting in saloon cars being

driven along at speeds of thirty to forty o,r more miles an hour,

all the windbws closed except the driver's and a small ventilating

opening in the roof ; thus the driver and the passenger in the

fiont are sitting in a direct current of cold air which strikes the

back of the neck and the eAr. Consequence : earache, and

frequently a mastoid oPeration.FIow often does one hear these days of mastoid trouble in the

young well-to-do motoring fraternity ! And yet ho'lv easily could

incision of the drum, and the more serious mastoid operation, b.

avoided, if Homaopathy were used for the early stages of

middle-ear disease.A middle-aged tvoman after a motoritg week-end was seen,

complaining of pain in left ear, fullness, dullness and muffled

,.nrition il front of ear; touch and pressure made the pain

worse. The history of pain after exposure to cold air led me to

prescribe Merc. bin. 6 for this lady with very huppy results. I\ot

only did the bulging inflamed eardrum return to normal, but

also a nasal polypus which was discovered at the same time and

of which the patient had not the slightest idea, dried up and dis-

appeared aftei a month's treatment, and the nasal catarrh which

h;d bothered her for months cleared up as well. She talked of

going to an ear specialist and having an operation for the poly-

p.tr, but whcn th; earache disappeared, she decided to wait until

uft.r the summer holiduy which was just due ; and lvhen she was

seen again, there wasn't any polypus left, and surgery was super-

fluous. I don't know that she was particularly grateful : people

nowadays do like boasting of all the operations they have had,

and I shrewdly suspect that she thought in her own mind I had

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made a mistake in finding a nasal polypus the first time.Incidentally, it reminds me of another incident which had

happened many years ago in my childhood days. There was agreat commotion in the nursery one morning : the little sister hadbeen delirious all night with flaming hot cheeks and acute ear-ache. The anxious mother rushed her off at once to the bestknolvn professor of ear diseases in the local University town, whoshook his head and talked learnedly of incising the drum. Thehonoured parent, who was a staunch Homaopath, would no,thear of it, but begged for twenty-four hours' grl... Reluctantlyshe lvas allowed to take the child home, with all kinds of direthreats. Undeterred by all this, she started giving Belladonna gxin rvatery solution every half-hour, and when the pro{essor sawthe little patient twenty-four hours later he was sorely puzzled asto what had happened to the inflamed drum; he looked at theear, then at his notes, and again peered into the ear. "Mrs. -r

are you sure this is the same child I saw yesterd ay ?" He calledhis assistant, they came to the conclusion that somethirg extra-ordinary, sornethitg they had never seen before, had happened

inflamed ear had resolved without operative interference !Mother was jubilant, and never failed to tell this tale against thefamous surgeon, where Homaopathy had triumphed andcarried the duy.

This incident made a deep impression, and since that duy Ihave saved many people from incision of the drum. Belladonnais not always the remedy, nor is Merc. biniodide.It depends o,nthe symptoms which arc present, such as the nature of the pain,the directioo, the ameliorations and aggravations of the local seatof trouble.

We were called one evening to a little fair-haired boy, almostbeside himself with pain in the ear; he was fretful and whiny,wanted to be made a fuss of ; the pain came on in fits and shotright down to the teeth in the lower ju*. All these details pointedto Pulsa,tilla, and a few doses of PuIs. high cleared up theinflamed drum in less than twenty-four hours. Fon two o,r threeyears afterwards he had a recurrence of this trouble which alwayscarne on after he got his feet wet, another Puls. $irnptom. It isnow several years since his last attack, and one knows, shouldthere be a recurrence , PuIs. will again help, as sure as anything.

Another case occurred in a young student after Germanmeasles. She presented the typical Pulsatilla symptoms, and it

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cleared up as suddenly as it came after a few doses, withoutleaving any deafness behind or any other symptoms of eustachiancatarrh. Chronic deafness is the usual sequel after otitis media inGerman measles, as treated by orthodox methods !

Belladonnt, Pulsatilla, M erc. bin are common remedies incases of acute earache; but other drugs may be required, andone has to study one's Mat eria l\{edic a carefully to find the rightremedy.

Once a boy was brought in for earache during the teethingperiod. He was shriekirg the place down, so spiteful, nothing wasright for him; he wanted to be carried about; he hit his mother;one side of his face was red and the other pale; he could notspeak yet, but there was no need to ask many questions : theremedy stared one in the face ; it was C hamomilla, and the nexttime this child was seen, there was not a better behaved child increation, a perfect angel, and his earache had gone without anoperation.

Much about the same time another infant, about fourteenmonths o,ld, was seen with almost identical symptoms. He wasirritable and fretful, did not want to be touched, screamed whenthe back of the ear was touched; but the face was pale and herolled his head. I diagnosed otitis media, and examination rvithan ear speculum confirmed it. The remedy was Cina, in thiscase; but unfortunately it was not in stock and, before it couldbe proctrred, the mother had become too worried and worked r'rpand had rushed the child off the same duy to a local hospital,where an operation was performed twenty-four hours later, firstan incision of the drum, later a cornplete mastoid, and three orfour days later the child was in the post mortem room. Onecould not bJame the mother : she did what she thought bestunder the circumstances.

A very similar case was seen very shortly afterwards. Thechild showed the same rolling of the head, the same irritabilityand sensitiveness to touch; did not want anybody to come ne arhim, was constantly picking his nose. The mother, of course,thought it was worms and had considered giving him a worrncake which is largely made up of santonin; the source, zs JohnH. Clarke puts it, of our homaopathic Cina. I dissuaded themother, as the santonin would have made the condition muchrvorse; but I knew that the homaopathic S antonin given inminutest subdivision and dilution would certainly cure here, as

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the child during his illness showed the very same symptoms, aswere brought out by the healthy provers, when they tookrepeated doses and no,ted the effects produced on themselves.These signs and symptoms I repeat again were : this normallyaffectionate child refused to be touched or caressed; tossed aboutin bed and rolled his head; the face was pallid with a white lineround the mouth, gritted his teeth and picked his nose; thetemperature was IoI", the drum of the ear was bulging and red.How difficult it was to examine it ! Cina 30 four-hourly quicklyaltered this serious state of affairs, and three days later onceagain we had a bright, affectionate child, with a sound eardrumand no brain complications.

"Co,incidence," you say; but if one gets case after case showingsymptoms which a homceopathic doctor recognizes as beingfound under a certain remedy, and when he applies that remedy,and the particular pathological disease clears up immediately,surely a logical mind would ascribe the cure to the remedy, themedicine given, and not to some mythical coincidence. But somefolks are difficult to convince and will wriggle out of any argu-ment, if it does not suit them to believe.

Now still another case in a baby, before I quote some cases ofearache in adults.

In one way children are difficult to treat, as you have todepend entirely on your powers of observation; you cannot askany questions as regards the nature, the seat, and the characterand directions of the pain. On the other hand, their objectivesigns and sympto,ms are clearer, not disguised or hidden by crudedrugs and large doses of medicines taken in the past.

This baby \^ras eight months old and just passing through itsdifficult period of dentition : breast fed, with a good carefulmother, a happy, contented mortal, always cooing and laughing.Suddenly it all changed, the face became scarlet and felt veryho,t to the touch; the temperature was I02o, and he was deliriousduring the night, constantly shriekitg with piercing shrieks, thethroat was intensely red, and the left eardrum was red andbulging. "Did I incise its eardrum ?" I should have, acco,rding torecognized and orthodox teaching. I depended on the homao-pathic scalpel, which in this case was Belladonna. The districtnurse was sent in to watch the case, and if necessary, send it tohospital; but again the simple remedy conquered the foul disease;the temperature went down to gg " the next morning and never

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went up again, and the child recovered as quickly as it wa.sstricken doln.

In the early days of practice in cases of this nature, earachewith red congested drums and tenderness over the mastoid, Ifrequently went to a case with fear and trembling o,n the secondvisit, gas bug and ear instruments, fine scalpels, etc., all at handin case of need, but it lvas never necessary. I never had to dothis small, delicate operation which every practitioner should beable to do, as text-books tell you, to prevent the more seriousextension of the disease into the mastoid cavity, which maymean more trouble, and months and months of discharging ears,deafness and perhaps death.

How much easier it all ir, to procure a reso,lution of aninflamed middle ear by a few doses of the indicated remedy.Perhaps it is too e"sf, and on the whole not spectacular enough !One would miss the glamour and ritual of the whole surgicalprocedure, the bustling nulte, the cheerful anrsthetist with hisbagful of sweet-smelling mystery, and the important Jove-likesurgeon r,r'ho holds death and life in his glistenitg instrumentsand his dexterous hands. All glory to the clever mechanicianwhen he is needed; but if Homaopathy was known and properlyapp,lied, the surgeon would once more occupy the second aryplace of importance, once held in the old days of the barbersurgeon.

Speakirg of surgeons and specially aural surgeons, f remembera very puzzled colleague, a" specialist, who, when to,ld that anurse was suffering from acute middle-ear disease with deafness,acute earache and faceache, enlarged glands of the neck andtonsillitis, warned the said nurse, how serious such a conditionwas and offered to do all he could for her in using his influencegetting her into ho,spital and having her operated on. Sherefused his very kind offer and stuck to Hom€opathy. A coupleof weeks later this self-same aurist was more than surprised tosee the nurse back at work, well and blooming-e arache gone,faceache and sore throat gone, no discharging ears and no deaf-ness and no noises in the head !

"What treatment did you have," he asked, "to get well soquickly; two weeks 2go, you were very ill, and now you arerecovered ! You sey, you had medicine, nothing else, no specificear treatment. Astonishing, you must have a wonderfulconstitution."

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I could have told him, that this rapid cure was due to Bella-donna, ?s she had Belladonna symptoms; the sudden rapid onset,the high temperature, the throbbirg pulsations in the head, allcaused by exposure to cold wind and chill of the head; wearinga nurse's cap all duy, and go,ing out to a theatre minus a headcovering at night.

As it happened, she had had one or two minor attacks duringthe previous three months, and the ear surgeons-1hsrs werethree at the aural clinic she worked at--talked of advising athree-months rerst and change for her, to clear up this tendencyto otitis media.

One saw, that Belladonno did not hold the case; it did notprevent a recllrrence, it \^/as not deep-acting enough; so in thelast and third most serious attack, after relieving the acute painwith Belladonna) one went on and gave Merc. bin. and Merc.bin. +th centesimal dilution, given night and mo,rning for a fort-night, cleared up the ear and also the tendency to earache witheach change in the weather.

As I said, the ear specialist rvas astonished, but he put it downto constitution or a mere huppy fluke.

Poor man, he could do with a little Ho,maopathy himself, heis frightened of a bit of wind or draught, always cossets himself,always has a cold and cough, always afraid of broncho*pneu-monia to which he is subject. And all the advice he could givethe sister was "be careful of colds and draugfi1s"-but how ? Hedid not say "by wrappirg up", it did not prevent colds in hisown case.

Another nurse had suffered from pain and deafness in theright ear; a fullness and numbness and muffied feeling o{ the earand right side of face which had persisted for abo'ut three weeks.

The general practitioner told her it was due to the change andgave her valerian and brornide, with no result. She was gettingdeafer every doy, and the numbness of the face grew worse;every breath of cold wind made the faceache worse; she couldnot stoop because o,f the feeling in the ear. She also was givenM erc. biniodide 6 twice a duy, and on account of the completedeafness of the right ear due to eustachian catarrh followirg anacute middle-ear disease, she was politzerized and had to have aeustachian catheter passed to open the closed passages leadingto the ear. She required a month's treatment and was thendischarged withou t a trace of deafness.

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Just at that time, I had a run of ear cases, all showirg tr[ erc.bin. symptoms : left-sided earache caused by cold air, dullnessand numbness of left side of face with feeling of internal heat ofvertex, and side a.ffected : deafness after getting warrn, giddinesswhich made it impossible to stoop; one often notices in the courseof the years that a certain remedy seems to be more in therunning during a certain period, and then a, few months laterthe same disease-the same pathological entity requires a totallydifferent remedy or set of remedies to cure it; the picture of thecurrent epidemic alwavs changes; and one has to study eachmanifestation of an acute illness afresh. f can just recall twonurses, two teachers, one headmaster and a woman doctor allwith earache, and all yielding to, Merc. bin.

But enough of Merc. biniodide, or you will run away with theidea, which is the last thing I wish for, that this is a specific forearache; and there "ain't such a thing" as specifics for a diseasein Homaopathy. Let me illustrate this :

Some fifteen vears ago I was called to a midwife who waslaid low with a high temperature, ulcerated throat, and acuteearache on the right side. I gave Belladonna) with the result thatthe next duy the pain in the right ear had gone, the drum hadlost its ominous redness, and the patient was on the mend, Ithought. Unfortunately I crowed too soon, the next duy exactlythe same trouble reappeared, but this time in the left ear ) thetemperature \r'ent up, the left drum was red and swollen, and soon. Once again I thought, I should need to call in surgery to myaid, but I remembered the Lycopodium symptom : "diseasegoing from right to left," and on that gave Lycopodium.

I had another case almost identical, at that time, in the nextstreet, and so, they both got Lycopodium. The next duy I wentalong with gas bug and o'ther necessaries for incising the drums ofthe two patients, and 1o ! they had both cleared up, temperaturewas down, and both were pleased. Again I was triumphant tooearly. In o,ne of the cases L),t. proved all efficient, and no furtherremedy was required for curing the acute ear; but in the case ofthe midwife I \^/as confronted once again with a rise of tempera-ture to r o r

o on the next visit, recrudescence of the acute ear-ache in the right ear) the right tonsil was swollen and glazed andshiny, and the left ear \^ras quite normal. I was not beaten, how-ever, Homaopathy did not fail me. I remembered that Lac.caninum has this symptoffi, as Kent puts it : complaints, regard-

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less of kind or quality, change sides; and Lac. caninum 9oo,four-hourly, efrected the almost impossible. This time the drumwent back to normal, the tonsil cleared up, and there \4/as noreturn of any inflammation, and no incision of the drum wasrequired, no deafness followed and there was no extension of thedlsease to the mastoid. A most satisfactory result to the patient.

Now still another case, and still another remedy. This was alady who had a mastoid operation on her left ear many, manyyears

"go, but still gets acute earache or faceache off and on.

She hacl a particularly severe "go" a few weeks "go,

with thefollowirg details : left-sided, very acute cutting, stitchirg painsover ear, shooting down into lower ju* and up to crown ofhead, very bad during daytime, much easier during night, anymotion, stoopitg, etc., was unbearable, could not bite or cheweven the softest of foods. Warmth relieved. She was very gloomyand depressed and very disinclined to move or work, most unlikeher normal busy self. She was naturally very agitated about themastoid inflammation recurrirg again. After two or three daysof intense suffering she was given S pigelia go three-hourly, whichspeedily removed all pain and suffering. It had another curioussequel : a large lump of hard, inspissated earwax was foundlying the next morning on the piece of cotton wool which shehad put in her ear to keep out the cold air. One argues fromthis : that the piece of lvax was pressing o,n the superficialneryes in the ear and causing the acute ne uralgia; once thepressure of the wax was removed, the pain went. Was it acoincidence that a piece of hard wax which was lying deep downin the cavity suddenly loosened on its own ? Or was it due to theaction of the S pigelia which was given twelve hours previously ?You can believe what you like. This lady had bouts of painsseveral times for two years increasing in intensity, subsidirg eachtime without specific treatment, until it reached its climax. Sincethe S pigelia was given, all discomfort and pain has gone.

Earache during menopause is almost ahvays relieved by Gels.The pain comes on after exposure to cold air and is of congestivenature; the ear feels hot and full, the lobe of the ear is red andburning, and the extremities feel cold. There is giddiness, andweight and tiredness of limbs. When you give GeIs. for earacheor faceache of this nature, it will disappear quickly; and as painis relieved, the patient has to pass large quantities of clear, wateryurine.

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Glonoin is sometimes needed in these menopausal cases ofcongestive headaches and earaches, violent pulsations and throb-bing in ear and head, pain easier in the open air, worse fromwarmth and lying down, has to sit bolstered up in bed, co,ldapplications relieve. f know a lady who is always quicklyimproved frorn the rushing pains in her ears by a few doses ofGlonoin. She can neither stand the heat nor the sun, and isalways seen walking about with a large sunshade and an old-fashioncd large shady hat.

There is one type of earache which requires Hepar sulpll., onevariety of subacute otitis media, where the drum is very near rup-ttrring, the pain is so acute and patient is ne arly driven mad withit. Cold air, cold draught and open air make it worse, the pain isunbearable at night, and the only thing that relieves it, is wrap-ping up the ear and head with a warm shar,vl. In this it resemblesC hamomilla, <-rnly a C hamomilla patient is even more spiteful,gives way to violent frenzy and outbursts of anger. The Heparin-dividual is more likely to faint r,t'ith the acuteness of the pain.

I nearly forgot Ferrum Phos. in acute otitis media. There wasa girl of 12 years of age who in tw'o years had at least sixattacks of acute earache, her drum had been incised two or threetimes. Earache asgravated by cold air, skin hot and dry, redcheeks, half-open eyeliCs, a modified Belladonna case; nose bleed-irg with each attack. Ferrum Phos. 12 as soon as an attackstarted would abort it in r2-2+ hours. I watched her for threeyears; and occasional doses of this remedy always helped hereach time. When seen last, she had had no, attacks for t B months.

C apsicum is an important remedy for threatened mastoidabscess . Earache worse at night, redness and flush over themastoid process, cheeks are red and cold. I have averted amastoid operation on several occasions by this remedy, rvhich hasa peculiar specific action on the bones of the internal ear and themasto'id process.

I have only considered a few of the more ordinary medicinesrequired to relieve earache, in different individuals. I must repeatagain, there are no specifics in Homaopathy, you must studyeach case individually, take the particulars carefully, observe allthe details, and then you will be successful in preventing serioustroubles, long-standing invalidism which is the result of "badlytreated earache." At a future date I hope to discuss chronic eardischarge and its successful homaopathic treatment.

DIFFICULT CHILDREI\T

Eenrv one Sunday mornirg the landlady of a superior boardinghouse in the West End was awakened by the insistent ringingof the house telephone. The voice on the other end of the wirewhich she recognized as that of one of her most troublesomelady boarders, insisted that Dr. must be sent for at once, asshe was feeling very ilI. The proprietress not recognizing thenalne, asked who he was and got the reply : "Don't you re-member, he was the doctor I read about in the library book lastweek ? It is urgent, f hke the sound of his name, I must havehim."

It was pointed out to her that this was a fictitious name, andthe doctor did not exist, but this did not avail at all. Contra-diction made Miss 8., the boarder, only more and more angryand to pacify her, the telephone book was produced, and ado'ctor with a somewhat similar narne was found. That was thereason why an astonished surgeon got an early summons toattend this lady. When he arrived at the house and knockedat this lady's door, to his surprise he was greeted by his patientbrandishing a poker and thieatening to io him in. He was asurgeon familiar with people's insides, but not with the crookedworkings of a diseased mind. He fled for his life and hastilysprinted into the lady's bedroom and locked the door betweenthem, while the patient continued to rave and break up thefurniture and ornaments. He called out of the window to attractthe attention of a passer-by-u rarity in a quiet square on Sun-duy morning. Eventually he managed to get a policeman sothat he could be released from his ignominious position, andthe poor demented lady was secured and sent off to a privatehome, where they had all the facilities to deal r,vith peoplesuffering from brain-storms. One heard that this lady, now quiteelderly, had been affiicted from early childhood days withsimilar attacks of rage and temper, which used to come on with-out any warning. When out with her nurse she would suddenlythrow herself down in the street, kick her l.gs, shout and scream,

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had to be held down and was frequently carried home by apoliceman or in a cab, a fightitrS, screamitg fury. There was norepression in her case, she was allowed to carry on and pleaseherself. Her parents, one presumes, sought medical advice, andall they were told wffi, she would outgrow it ! She certainlynever did. As a young lady in late Victorian days, she used toupset the decorous company at luncheon or dinner with herstorms and tempers, and so she had to be sent in the end to anasylum for restraint ! She would have saved her parents, herselfand her neighbours much anxiety, if she had been treated asa child by Homaopathy. This is not an idle or exaggeratedstatement.

Let me quote similar cases I have come acro$s, who havebeen successfully dealt with. The second child of superiorworking-class people was a sullen, bad-tempered mite, even ata year old. Never a smile out of her; she would not play withanybody, she gave vent to terrible storms of temper, kickingand howling, and nobody, not even her father, could controlher. She would not do anything she was told-the older shegrew, the worse her tempers became. I tried to coax her, andgive advice to her parents, but neither soft words, nor harshnessmade any difference. She remained just a "difficult child," herolder brother, a sweet-tempered, huppy boy tried to reason withher; but little Christine would have none of it and continuedin her evil ways. This was years ego, and I bethought myselfof similar cases I had read of in the Materia Medica books, andsuggested to the mother, if she was willing, I should cure hergirl of her tempers. She was only too glad, and so it came aboutthat little Christine was given Tuberculinum 30 : several weeklydoses. The first dose already made a difference and after a fewweeks, the once sulky, bad-tempered child began to smile insteadof frowning and turning her head away or even lashitg out withher feet. She grew into a good-natured, huppy child, and at the

slightest return of temper she would get another dose of Tuber-culinum. Her mother and father were always extremely grateful,and she used to say with tears in her eyes how wonderful thoselittle powders were which turned her naughty girl into a happy,obedient one. One watched this little girl for several years untilher parents left the neighbourhood, and there had been no needfor "repetition of the dose" for many moons. The old Adam hadbeen conquered.

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Another case : One duy at the Clinic, one heard a great com-motion going on in the next roorn, much noisy altercation, atlast the door opened and in cam e a, young Englishwom&r, tryinghard to bring her twin girls in to see me. They were not yet twoyears of ege, but they were as determined as their mother, thatthey had no, rvish to come and see the doctor" in the white coat.They were Anglo-Chinese girls, with pretty slit almond eyes, andpink cheeks on an olive foundation, and had just returned fromCarshalton Hospital after several months' treatment for severerickets. Children of mixed races, Anglo-Chinese or Anglo-Negro'id parentage do not stand our climate very well, eventhough they are born here, their bones seem very soft and bendeasily and the worst rickets I have seen in latter years have beenin children o,f a negro, or Chinese father and English mother. AtCarshalton, as many such pretty children, they had been verymuch petted by the nurses and thoroughly spoilt, and now theywere quite out of hand. The mother dragged one way with onechild in e?ch hand, and the little girls dragged another wel,noisily protesting, and the next thing I saw, both children wereon the floo,r r,r'ith their legs in the air, kicking and screamirg,nobody could make themselves heard above this din. It wasimpossible to do anything that day with these two minxes. I pro-cured some Tuberculinum 30, and put it on their tongues, whileeach child was bellowirg loudly. ft was somewhat of a feat toget past those furiously kickirg legs; the hospital had apparentlymade the nether extremities strong and capable of inflictingdamage.

The children were carried out in the end by u hot mother withmany apologies and planked into the pram. A week passed, thedoor opened and in came two tiny mites, hand-in-hand, allowingthemselves to be, examined lvithout a murmur, my little demonsof the week before ! softened by Tuberculinum. They becamequite reformed characters, we never had any more such exhibi-tions, though they were given a course of Tuberculinum forseveral months; they remained imps of mischief, who lovedsmearing brooms with ju^, pulling the tablecloth off again assoon as it was set for dinner, going into the cupboards andmixing the sugar and the soap flakes and salt all together. Theywere always up to somethitg new, but their tempers were cu,red.This mother was very prolific and produced a child every year.

,t_lTlh;e dealt with five or six of her offspring and the interest-

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itg point was : that each child at about r B months developedthose terrific tempers, but they were one and all settle,d with afew doses of Tuberculinum. No stick was needed, ro pro,longedtreatment and observation at child guidance clinics; they justcalmed down after Tuberculinum.

It is sometimes very difficult to get the fond mothers to ack-nowledg. that their children, specially their boys, are sufferingfrom attacks of violent rage; one often has to wait, until one seesa child in an attack. There was a mother I remember, she hada boy after nearly sixteen years interval, he was made much ofnaturally, and when he was four, he became almost unmanage-able; he appeared to be quiet and saint-like, just looking at youquite knorvingly, while the mother to,ld of these scenes. Heappeared quite rational and she would take him o,ut into thepark, he would play for a while and then suddenly, for noapparent reason, h. would go o,ff into one of his tantruffis, howland scream and throw himself on the ground and make an exhi-bition of her. The neighbours would blame her for being cruelto him, lvhen she had done no,thing to him. She would take himto the local welfare centre or hospital, and the same thing wouldhappen there : screams and kicking of feet and hitting themother, so the mother was reduced to, tears in her helplessnessand could not take him anywhere with her. He was a thin,undersized child with fair hair, blue sclerotics, red lips, straw-berry tongue and profuse growth of hair between the shoulderblades along the spine. She did not know what to do with him,he was a trouble and great anxiety to her. He had the physicalcharacteristics of Tuberculinum, as just described, as well as themental sympto,ms of uncontrollable rage. I consoled the motheras well as I could, assuring her that her boy could be cured, andneedless to say with a few infrequent doses of Tuberculinum,along with bi-weekly sittings of ultra-vio'let rays, we succeededin turning the boy into a normal tempered, huppy individual.The symptoms that first drew attention to this remedy arefound in Allen's Materia Medica as follows :

"Does not like to be disturbed by people; trembling of hands."Felt positively ugly; personal aversion almost became a

mania."Trifles produced intense irritation and could not be shaken

off.

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"V.ry irritable, wanted to fight, no hesitancy in throwinganything at any one, even without a cause."

There was another boy rvho used to throw himself under thetable, kick hard with his feet and shriek and shriek and manytimes upset the table with all the crockery on it. Tuberculinumrapidly put an end to these brain-storms.

Another symptom that always makes me give Tuberculinumto a young child is this : I offer the baby over ^ year old, anunmedicated tablet of sugar, if the child refuses to take it eventhough you coax it and s"y, "Ifave a sweetr" and when you putthe sweet on the child's tongue he immediately becofires obstrep-erous, refuses to swallow it and spits it out; his mother tries himand he clenches his teeth, and if she manages to push the sweetin, he still ejects it vio,lently, one is pretty certain that Tuber-culinum is the remedy and that after a few doses, the child willbecome lamblike and lose the tendency to these storms.

In the last ten years one has had many children from one tofive years and over, with symptoms like those mentioned, andTuberculinum 30 invariably helped. T'hese fits of anger mightcome on with the teething, sometimes it might be a little later. Ahistory of tuberculosis in some member of the family could notalways be obtained, but one has a shrewd suspicion that there isa tubercular tendency in that family. The poorer classes do notknow much about members of their family, of even a generationback; some prefer to lie and will not tell you the truth. But inquite a goodly percentage I have discovered that there has beentuberculosis in the family. These children with sudden brain-storms who react so well to Tuberculinum may require othermedicines later on; but for a time they will do well on thisremedy, and some seem to require no'thing but Tub. to turnthem into strong, healthy children with a normal amount ofnaughtiness, which is easily controllable.

A girl of g or I o was brought to me two years ago with thehistory of snoring at night, and the mother wanted to knowwhether she had enlarged tonsils and adenoids; she had takenher to four Cifferent throat clinics, and none of the surgeons hadbeen able to persuade her to open her mouth for examination.I found her a badly-ncurished girl; everything went off swim-mingly, we were good friends, until I asked her to let me look ather mouth. She was seized with unreasoning terror, would no,t bequietened, shrieked and yelled, it took four adults to hold her;

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she subsided on the floor, taking two of the adults with her,tables and chairs flew in every directior, her eyes became glassy,she screamed, "I'11 kill you, I'll kill you." I hastily removedmyself outside the radius of those thrashitg legs and sent forsome Tuberculinum go. It was a terrible struggle to make hertake the tablet. The first tablet was ejected with great force andlanded on the window sill; the second disappeared and was spatout and disappeared into another co'rner; the third was firmlyplaced inside the mouth and the nose and mouth were finallyclosed, so that eventu alLy she had to swallow it. She was exhaus-ted, and so were we all; and we thankfully saw the back o,f her.

The next rveek she returned. she made no murmur at myplacing the spatula inside her mouth and let me examine her,and I hardly recognized her as the same spitting ftry of a wildcat of the week before. As she had diseased septic tonsils whichwere foreign bodies and no good to her, she was recommendedfor operation. One heard later, she did not play up again as shedid previous to the dose of Tuberculinum: so add this symptomto the list mentioned above.

"Unreasoning terror in a child at a medical examination orwith strangers-Z ub e r c ulinu,nr."

Now another difficult child with slightly different symptomswho was again cured by Tuberculinum, though I used a differentpreparation, namely I(och's Tuberculinu,m. There are differentTuberculins on the market; but they all act on the "tubercu-linum" child, and one uses them at random.

This girl, 5t years old, was brought in September, 1936, withthe followirg history : delicate child, "night screamitg" as aninfant, showed signs of an enlarged gland in the neck early inrg3+. Taken to hospital, where her gland was operated on andalso a culminating mastoid infection required an emergencyoperation. Since the operation she had developed frequent recur-rent feverish attacks about every six weeks r,r'ith vomiting; typicalattacks of acidosis; the mastoid lvound had never healed up, atthe base an area nearly one inch across was still visible with asinus leading down to the deeper tissue of the ear. The scar ove rthe cervical gland looked unhealthy and showed typical pucker-i*g. She was on a rigid diet, non-fat, with skimmed milk,steamed vegetables, brown bread, potato, lettuce, cereal puddingwith prune juice; and still the recurrent vomiting attackspersisted.

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Family history : the mother had been in Margate as a young

woman for six months for early pre-tubercular debility.Psycho'logically the child was distinctly difficult, extremely

excitable, argLlmentative, contrary, contradictitg the whole time.

"A 'no child' " with a vengeance; did always the opposite to

what she was asked to do, restless, fidgety. While in my roo'm, she

played with the blind until she broke it, even though her mother

begged her not to; went to all my drawers, picked things out of

them, threw them about, looked at picture books for a minute,

threw them aside-refused to be examined, refused to have her

clothes off, had to be co,axed and argued with, was extremely

obstin ate, was said to be affectionate and liked sympathy, jumped

about a Iot, squeakirg and making a no'ise even while I was

talking to her mother. She was a sallow, dark, thin child-always

hungry and yet never growing fat; very difficult in hospital, great

many scenes while her wounds were being dressed after the

operations, very prudish, disliked bathing costumes, impatient,

great fear of dogs; weight 2 st. Io lbs. Tuberculinum Koch 30was prescribed, and soon made a great difference.

A month later she had gained a pound in weight, had had no

sick headaches, no feverish attacks, no uomiting on a normal

diet; the mastoid wound had healed over for the first time in z$

years-the night sweats had disappeared; though still hot when

excited or running about; heavy odour about her bedroom from

her body in the morning after a night's sleep; constipation-an

o,ld symptom-much improved.December Bth, r 936. Not so excited, used to eat no breakfast

before a jouroel, but now has a good meal. My secretary

remarked how much quieter she was, while sitting in the waiting

room; she used to upset and worly and annoy the other people,

alrvays in and out of the room, "an impossible child she was at

first" she exclaimed; now the girl would sit and look at books

for quite a long time and not disturb anybody.

Gained 6 lbs. in n'eight since September on a norrnal diet, no

catarrh, no vomititrg, no feverish attacks, a strong sound scar

over the mastoid; continued Tuberculinum Koch rrn.

February znd, rgg7. Gained g+ lbs. since Septernber, 1936,

not so excitable, no feverish chills now, even though she had a

cold during the middle of December.March 2gth, rg17. Very constipated, put on bran and Agar

Agar-no offensive perspiration now; very well otherwise, gainecl

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in rveight, not afraid of the dark or dogs now; much quieter andnot so argumcntative.

June r Bth, rgZT . Frequent colds during spring, but nopyrexia, no vomiting, no night sweats, feels cold very much, feetsweat, catches colds fro,m being overheateC. Still contrary, fearful,bursts into tearc for nothing; has not been well since her vac-cination. The disease picture is changitg from Tuberculinuntand the co,mplementary remedy Silica 30 was now given forfootsrv eat, fearfulness and antidote for vaccination and recurrentcolds fr"om over-heating.

September r 5th, rgy7. Gaining weight-is now Z st. 7 lbs.-again of r r lbs. in a \/ear. Constipation cured, can eat anythingnow; gets suddenly tired still, and is dark under the eyes, heavybody odour when asleep ; a cervical gland enlarged again durirgthe summer, no sick turns, not so excited-mastoid scar sound.

The child still requires treatment, but her mental symptomshave vastlv improved, she is no,w bearable to live with and notsuch a strain on her parents and relations; more obedient, notfidgety and not so restless. The fits of anger and rage were onlymentioned to me on the second visit, when they had practicallyceased.-She gets on well at school now, and has hardly beenabsent from school since Easter, rg37 . Tuberculinum Koch rffi,again prescribed.* This child under homaopathic treatment hasdone remarkably well; gained extraordinarily well; is bright andcheerful and r,vell behaved. A great difference frorn the puny,difficult, temperamental child of a year ago. No convalescencewas needed; she remained in the same surro'undings, all thedifference that \,vas made, was the regular ho,mcopathicmedication.

Tuberculinum is a r,r'onderful medicine in difficult children;but there are other types of children and other remedies whichact as well, if they are homaopathically indicated.

Some years "So,

a little girl of 3 or g* years was brought tome for co'nstipation; she was very plump and fair, and extremelydifffrcult to examine, she shrieked. would not be touched, her eyesturned glassy, she screamed "f won't undress. I won't undress,I'11 hit you, I'11 tell my daddy." It required a great deal of per-suasion and even right to the end she still went on shrieking andprotesting at the to,p of her voice. Even though her temper was

* Weight on Bth December, rg jT i g st . ro lb. ; another g lb. gain.

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like the temper of a Tuberculinum child, she had not the make-up ; for it does not do to prescribe on one symptom only; one hasto take many things into consideration. As I said, she was paleand dumpy and round, and nearly as broad as she was long, shefelt the heat, she could no,t take f.at and was very affectionate tothe people she was fond of. Altogether different from the daintyDresden china prettiness of Tuberculinum. No, Pulsatilla was herremedy and Pulsatilla continued for a considerable periodimproved her agitation and her sudden attacks of vile temperwhich disturbed the neighbours, until now she is a well behavedlittle madame of seven, who kno,ws how to control hemelf.

Yes, we always think of Pulsatilla as timid and retiring, butonce the lid comes off a Pulsatilla nature, they can storm andrage with the best of them, and can make the lives of theirparents very unpleasant. They are easily frightened, take unac-countable dislikes to people , are fidgety, changeable, and remark-ably irritable.

Ano,ther little girl disso,lved into violent paroxysms of rage andloud uncontrolled weeping, whenever she had an attack ofearache, and r,r'ould not be touched and have her ear looked at.She threatened her mother, that she would take her bug, packup and leave her, if she let that nasty doctor examine her. Shewas only three, and yet this wrestle with her temper had gone onfor hours, keeping her mother awake and annoyirg the neigh-bours in the flats near by. And Pulsatilla rm given hourly at firstfor the acute earache (of middle-ear disease), and then atlengthening intervals cleared up the ear so that no operation wasnecess ary and with it the piercing shrieks and the vile temper,so that by next mornirg there was a penitent, well-behaved littlegirl.

One sees these kicking, screamitg, ill-tempered children fre-quently in the dentist's chair, or even before, while they arewaiting to be seen.

I\{any a child has been cured o,f its unreasoning fear ofdentists by Tuberculinum or Pulsatilla or occasionally some otherrgpedy, and once it has been treated it bravely faced the ordealof havirg the teeth attended to.

Talking o,f teeth, rerninds me of another young girl aboutfifteen, when I saw her first. F{er teeth had turned black as soonas they came through and they were soft and friable, and shesuffered a great deal from toothache and spent a lot of time at

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the dentist which she dreaded. But this was not all. Her parentswere very H,orried about her lack of self-control. She could no,tbe criticized, she was e asily irritated about real or imagin atf ttrifling things, very touchy, cross and ugly. The world was allwro,ng, she took offence where none was meant, and when shewas angry and indignant, she became impulsive and threw thingsat anybody, friend or stranger who had caused her irritation. Noamount of reasonirg with her did any good, and she seemed toget worse, the older she got. The mother and father anxiouslyr,vondered rvhat would happen to her, what mad thing she mightdo in one cf her impulsive rages. I suggested a trial of Homco-pathy, and they did not sneer at it, even though the father was achemist, and Staphisagria go altered the make-up and tempera-ment of this unhappy girl very quickly so that two days after thefirst dose this budding woman spontaneously confided to hermother : "The world is so, different; everybody is so kind andnice to me during the last duy or two." She did not know she hadthe medicine for her uncontrollable rages, but thought she washaving medicine for her toothache ! This improvement was not aflash in the p"tr, it continued until she became a happy girl, whocould take a joke and laugh at the many minor slights and dis-comforts of this life. One shudders to think what her impulsiverages might have led her into. What she was saved from !

One recalls another girl whom one has had under one's caresince infancy. She must be now 12 or r 3. She inherited hermother's Irish temperament, and many difficult scenes one hashad with her. Irascible, easily alarmed, frightened of pain, fright-ened of seeing blood, would not allow her ears to, be touched,fought and screamed and scratched, even though her ears weredischarging, rvotrld not allow me to look at her throat withoutscenes. f used to dread the visits I paid her during her variouschildish complaints, whoopitg cough, and measles and scarletfever. E ach visit was a penalty, it meant tears and fights andargurnents; she got beside herself with rage. f can still see herwith hot scarlet, flushed cheeks, the dark blue eyes r,r,'ith largeblack pupils, the thick mops of closely curled fair hair, standingout from her head like a halo r,vhich would not be controlled,however much it was brushed, defiantly stampirg her feet andtrying to run awayr "f won't have my ears syringed." ft tookthree grown-ups to get her ears syringed, when she was almosttotally deaf from a collection of !vax; "a little spitfir'e," quite

Difficult C hildren 63beside herself with rage, quite uncontrollable in her tempers. Onedid not set ottt to cure her of unnecessary fits of rages, anC heralarms about nothing. One set about to cure the child of herconstitutional defects which were of a distinctly tubercularnature. She always had night coughs, took colds easily whichflew to her chest at once. There were almost invariably rAlesand moist sounds in her chest; "f am always rattling inside," shequaintly told rrle once. Her parents were super-careful of her,protecting her against draugtrts, treating her like a hot-houseplant, piled on her woollies; she wore the thickest double-breasted flannels I have ever seen, and yet she was alwayschesty. I tried to teach them open-air habits, but they all cameto nought against the mother's Irish obstin acy. I made the fatherbuild an open-air chalet in the garden, where the children wereto sleep all through the summer, the first night she and herbrother slept out there, the boy fell out of the hammock andlaid his scalp open. Naturally the mother blamed me ! ancl theywere packed indoors again. When father opened the windows atnigtrt, mother shut them again. It was a case of "difficultmotherr" almost rnore than "difficult child" in this instance. Howoften is that not the case ? Bring up the parents, and theirchildren will be brought up as they should be. Often I havefound that a difficult child became obedient and lamb-like andmuch more huppy, when for so,me reason or other he or she wasseparated from the mother. Once arL intractable child becamepositively good-natured and angelis-p'fisn her mother died inchild-birth, and the girl was taken over and brought up by heraunt. To' go back to our Irish colleen; it took vears of patienceand careful handling of the mother before she could be broughtto see-with the tactful help of the father-that fresh air andhardening of the child were most essential in preventing colds,even more so in one H'ho had a tendency to consumption. Thecutaneous skin tests that lvere done confirmed the diagnosis. Shehad T'uberculinum rvith very little effect; then she got Droserafor her night cough rvhich was worse and always disturbed thefather in the latter part of the night, and lo and beholcl, not onlydid the cough improve and the rattles disappear; but also hertempers improvcd out of all knowledge. Later on she had Katicarb. for right-sided bronchitis with stitching pains which seemedlvorse in the earlyr morning; and t]re difficult, very temperamental

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child became quite calm and philosophical; and when she devel-oped a discharge from her middle ear, and the parents brought

her ho,me from boardirg school for me to see it, I found she

submitted to probing and examining and treating the ear with

very good grace, and only a few silent tears rolled down her

cheeks. A wonderful alteration in her temperament. And I

learned that Drosera, a tubercular remedy-is also good for

tempestuous children, provided the rest of the symptoms agree.

By-the-by, a few doses of. Silica in a high potency cleared up the

discharge and helped to cure the perforated drum in under a

month. I\o local treatment was used, except gently drying out the

ear whenever it started to discharge, this ceased entirely after a

few days. Silica is a remedy closely related to tubercular condi-

tions and septic infections. It is of great use therefore in dis-

charging ears, provided the discharge is not of too offensive a

character, when other remedies may be called for. Even septic

conditions need to be studied individually so as to find the right

remedy corresponding to all the symptoms present.

MORE, ABOT]T DIF'FICULT CHILDRE,N

TnB tubercular constitution seems to produce tempestuouschildren. Tuberculinum loves being out in cold winds, lovesbattling with storms; the physical likes are closely related to themental characteristics. Wild tempers, rages and storms internallyas well as externally; and they will be wiped out by the correctremedy. Now there is another remedy belongitg to, the samefamily, and that is Phosphorus: He also is vehement, easilyroused to anger, irascible, apprehensive and fearful of manythings. I knew a boy urho was practically an only child, bornafter many years, so that there were ne arly eighteen yearsbetween the two children; naturally he was made much of ; andunfortunately he was delicate as a youngster and was spo,ilt. Sohe grew up almost unmanageable, \^/as difficult in school; sud-denly he rvould be taken with fits of anger, when nothing couldbe done with him; rvould not talk at all; he would rush out ofthe room, lock himself into a lavatory, often the only place ofsolitude in a rvorking-class family, and refuse to come out, oreven answer his mcther when she implored him to be sensible.He would tremblc and shake with fear, shout and scream; wasfrightened of people, scared when alone, frightened of the dark;scared o,ut of his wits during a thunderstorm. Indifferent to theschool, indifferent to friends; would only learn when he felt likeit; would not go to the doctor or attend at the light clinic for hisanremia. The mother was in despair. She was ordered to takehim to a psychological clinic, but she could not get him there; hehid and kicked and shouted when dragged out of his hidingplace. fn the end he consented to come to me; he was by now ab"y of trvelve, and had known me since he was an infant, andperhaps I was not so terrifyittg to him as a complete stranger.Undersized, thin and slim, fair complexioned, red haired, sensi-tive to noise and touch, very fidgety; could no't sit or stand still;felt the cokl intensely, liked sympathy and r,vanted to be rnade afuss of. He was so typically Phosphorous that I quicklv recog-nized it; and on looking up the records, I found he had

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Phosphorus in the past, and on enquiry, his mother related thathe always improved rapidly after a week or trvo of this medicineand would be quite changed and huppy, willing to learn, willingto do as he was to'ld, and his nervous fears would disappearcompletely. For two or three years he came irregularly, wheneverhe had a turn of the "shakes," and r,vhen the school reported hewas stubborn and unmanageable.

In time he will grow out of these turns, as long as he getshelped by Phosphorous in small doses. I understand he is doingrvell at school at the moment, and is actually growing big andfat. I rvish his mother H'ould bring him regularly and have himdefinitely attended to monthly. She is a busy working-classwoman and until the boy becomes unmanageable, she lets thingsslide. Such a pity for the boy's sake. His sensitive nature, thesudden unreasonable fears will master him, and he will be amisery to himself and an anxiety to his mother, unless he gets anunderstanding doctor, armed with the power that Homceopathygives to her dcvotees.

Closely related to Tuberculinu,m and Phoslthorus is Silica,though very different in some respects. It has also a, difficultnature. f am thinking now of a little boy; he looked a f reak andwas freakish mentally. Thin, rvhite, almost the colour of chalk,transparent, enormous head, especially the forehead, and thecro'wn drawn out into a peak, a hydrocephaloid head-a childresembling in type to the scrofula of the older physicians, com-bined with rickets, large, prominent belly, weak legs, especiallyankles. I was told he was I B months or more, before he learnedto walk. Constitution ally, he was rickety and feeble as well,timid, retiring, inclined to shirk everything; but when you spoketo him, h. became cross and cried, obstinate and headstrong; themore kindly he was spoken to, the more he cried, always hang-ing on to his mother's skirts. Such a set to, when his throat \^rasabout to be examined, not so much kicking and screamirg as ina Tuberculinum child; more an o,bstinate, retiring \^'ay. "f won'tdo as you tell me fs"-pouth tightly shut, a sullen attitude andthen quiet weeping-he would not speak to me for months at hisweekly visits. All at once, one duy he became bold and to showoff and prove his friendliness, he pushed me and slapped *y face.He got embarrassed after this episode and refused to speak againfor several visits; but he wa,s quietly insistent on being weighedevery time he came) and would not go until the sister attended

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to him-tendency to, head sweats and moist feet, offensive foot

sweats in the summer and constipation which improved along

with the o,ther sympto,ms. Hated to be touched, had fits of

temper, quarrelled with older brother. Multiple perforations of

right ear drum, grooved sternum, winged scapula and shoulder

blade . Such a worrier, little things troubled him ever so much.

Felt the cold very much. Silica 30 was given; frequent recurrent

colds at first and tonsillitis when first seen on April I lth, 1935;

medicine repeated whenever necess ary. Bronchitis, September

5th, r g35 ; sweating head again, Iungs full of moist sounds.

Silica 30 t.d"s. for a rveek. fn December, I935, developed severe

attacks of choking for which he had Ant. tart. 30 t.d.s., and

Sulph. 30 after the bronchitis had disappeared; had a severe

choking cough during Christmas, and was feverish for several

days; always takes a chill whenever he goes out; had Arsenic aonightly for this cough. January z3rd, r 936 : very nervous, easily

scared. At the beginnirg for several months he refused to be

weighed-weighed 3 st. 3 lbs. 3 ozs. (six years old now). Tuber-

culinum 30 was interposed, as it works well with Silica. He had

weekly doses of Tub. 30; it livened him uP; he became more

energetic and not so nervous; but his weight remained station-

ary. Fresh chill started on February rBth. February 25th, measles

developed, subsequently seized with paroxysmal choking cough,

for which he was given Drosera 30, in unit dose. March 5th,getting on; no cough. Measles of course cleared in under the

week. March teth, Drosera 30 again; rveight 3 st. 3 lbs. 4 o'zs-;

no loss of weight in spite of measles; gained + lb. the next

week, and o,n April znd weighed 3st. 4 lbs. 12 o'2.-

gain of $ lbs. in three months. April z3rd, weight

3 st. 5 lbs. + ozs. Drosera 30 (once) again. Muy r4th, weight

g st. 5 lbs. 12 ozs. Nervo,us of children in playground, head

sweats again ; Sitica 30. J,rly 9th, after a month in Clacton, no

gain in weight. Shape of head altering; very well and lively. He

continued on repeated doses of Silica until his weight on

September r7th, I936, was 3 st.B lbs. B ozs.; he had gained over

5 lbs. in eight months in spite of measles and bronchitis.

Gradually on Silica he picked up, and then we found all at

once he was growing uP, becomitg less babyish, would speak ,p

for himself, come along to the dispensary without his mother, talk

and chatter with the other children and now, when he is eight,

his body is well covered, he has put on well over B lbs. this last

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year; he is not catching colds as frequently as he used to ; hedoes not look so transparent, and is becomirg an independentlittle man; his head is still peaked and on the large size; he isstill pallid and fair skinned, but the whole family is like that.

If he had ttot had Homaopathy, h. would have grown up intoa shrinkitg, timid man, that is, if he did not die from his bron-chitis first !-rvith no spunk, ro self-confidence, lack of grit, weakand embarrassed, dreading to do anything on his own responsi-bility. What a wonderful thing Silica is in building up the bodyas rvell as the rnind !

Norv we shall leave the tubercular family and go to anothergroup. The Baryto carb. child is very similar, both in appearanceand in temperament to the Silica nature. lt has a big head, bigabdo,men, thin legs, and tendency to enlarged glands and en-larged tonsils, not septic or suppurating tonsils but more generalinflammation and enlargement with each cold. A painfully shychild, sits about in corners, hides behind his mother; even as ababy he hides his face in his hands, zs if he was afraid orashamed. Corvardly, irresolute, bashful, afraid of strangers,does not want to play with other children, sits in acorner by himself, constantly whining. We had such aboy, dwarfish in mind as well as in body; would not answer orspeak u'hen spoken to; he was eight when I first met him, hecould not read or would not read, I was never sure which it was,looked at me with his bro,wn eyes and perhaps five minutes later,if at all, he would stammeringly bring a word out. For weeks itwas like that; he was always stammering, if he answered a,t all.At school they could do no,thing with him; he was much toofrightened and shy; bullied by his older sister, he was a poor,mentally unstable person who could never string even a shortsentence together without a stammer. What an existence andprospect for that lad ! Baryta carb. did a great deal for him; andduring the eighteen months he attended regularly, he gained wellin stature and weight, and actually gave up stammering andshowed that he could read; he talked quite freely with his school-mates, and was even seen fighting with another boy in the street.Alas, the slum-clearing scheme removed him from that a,rea) andI lost sight of him. I am very much afraid his impro,vement willnot be maintained without the stimulating and vitalizirg effect ofthe Baryta cArb.

I remember a fellow-woman student who was affiicted with

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this most painful silence and shyness. She was a few years older

and further on than myself, so I came very little in contact with

her, but I never saw her spe ak to anybody; and if any professor

or doctor looked at her even, she would blush and look awa,y and

never answer. She was a standing joke at college, and how she

ever plucked up enough courage to answer the examiners, I do

not know; the legend went that she never said one word to any

of the students she was with for the whole five years of her course.

And however she managed to get on as a medical wo'man in

practice, I cannot imagine !Then there was that little boy of four, whose medical story I

have told already in these pags, who had been treated for six

months at the clinic of a well-known children's specialist with

gallipots of cod liver oil and malt, without any appreciable effect

on his nerves, his weight or his unresolved pneumonia followittg

on scarlet fever and diphtheria. He weighed zG lbs. in October,r g33 ; in August, 1924, his weight was 35 lbs. and fro,m being a

rhy, nervous boy, who would not look at a stranger, would not

play with other children, hidirg himself in a corner, never a lvord

out of him, h* developed into a bright, cheerful, playful soul, full

of fun and gaiety. First a few doses o'f KaIi carbonicum weregiven fo,r his unreso,lved right-sided basal pneumonia, and then

Baryta c,arb. 6 night and morning for some weeks, fo'llowed by

Baryta carb m. They suggested psychological treatment for him

and an obsen'ation centre for his peculiar ways; Homaopathy

so vitalized him and changed him, that he gained g lbs. in tenmonths, lost his cough and his pneumonic patch, and his terrible

shyness and fear of strangers. Is it not worth while to be a

homaopath psychologist ? I still see his mother sometimes; they

have moved out o,f the district, and he is getting on very well in

school, a bright, active child, up to all the usual boyish tricks !

I personally have never seen such results in such a short time,

as a student or as a house surgeon in the out-patients' depart-ments of children's hospitulr, with the usual tonics such as Par-

rish's food, strychnine and quinine mixtures, oil and malt, andthe other unpalatable concoctions. If I had, I should certainly

never have troubled to learn and study Homaopathy; it means

much burning of midnight oil, concentrated hard work. But the

results are worth it. I only wish that Homaopathy were betterknown, and that more doctors would get over their prejudice andinvestigate it.

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Now for another shy, difficult child, and quite different fromthe Baryta carb. nature. This is It,'a,trum muriaticum, or commonsalt. Common salt is in such general use in everyday life thatmany people, especially do'ctors, cannot and will not believe thatit can be of any use in the minute doses we give it in. Dr. Burnettwas very keen on it and went fully into the uses of. Ittr atrunl mLtr.and wrote a book on the dynamic uses of. Itlat. mltr.) as we callit, lovingly and shortly. The Ir,' at. mtrr. child is late learning towalk, late in learning to talk; sometimes a boy is four years andolder, before he even opens his lips to speak. As f.ar as Iknow, whetrever an anxious mother takes such a dumb child tothe children's specialist, she is always told that there is nothingto worry about, he r,vill grow out of it. He will do so in mostcases, but very slowly; but give hirn N at. nr.ur., or it might besome other remedy, just as the combination of symptoms demandit, and the child will suddenly find his tongue and begin tochatter as if to the manner born. I{atru,m m?tr. is usually a palechild with a greasy, waxy, shiny skin; emaciated, weak, thin,eats well and yet does not put on any weight. I knew such aboy; one of several, he rvante,d to be left alone; if anybody talkedto him, he would turn his face to the wall; he would weep andshed bitter tears when reprimanded or looked at; the more hewas sympathized with, the more he cried; he used to cry withannoyance, sympathy made him worse, hated being fussed over,he used to get so angry and bellow and shriek with a,nger. Back-ward in learning; slow, a fearful dunce, awkrvard and clumsy,always letting things drop, alr,r'ays stumbling when walking; hewas nearly tr,vo before he learnt to walk and nearly four beforehe deigned to speak; frightened of burglars, startled at noise, onsuddenly hearing a door open. Craving for salt, but did not likefat; scared of thunder; his lips easily cracked and split, especiallyin the middle of the lo,wer lip, and when he was nine years oldhe developed a terrible divergent strabismus (squint), for whichthe surgeons wished to operate. He feels the cold, and he is neverat his best in the mornings; does not wake until the duy has gotwarmed up a bit, that is until after ro a.m. What a, dunce hewas in school ! l{ at. mltr. did wonders for him. His awkwardness,mental as well as physical, left him; he became much brighter inschool, suddenly made great strides in his lessons and cver hissquint improved. One wonders, if he can only be kept away fromthe surgeons for another six months, whether his eyes might not

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become straight again. Why not ? More wonderful things havehappened. Squint, after all, is unequal pulling and straining ofthe muscles in different directions, due to weakness; and *h.ttnature is stimulated by the correctly indicated remedy, the uismedicatrix natrtre will do the rest. I have seen several boys,emaciated, thin, dunces at school, almost mentally deficient,make tremendous strides under I{atrum muriaticum, in. dynam-ized common salt. IJnfortunately it means hunting throughhundreds of records sornetimes, and one does not r.*.*ber thenames; only the broad medical facts and the faces. Perhaps, if Iget some leisure, I shall find some more of these salt cases, whichare rather intriguitg. When you consider that salt in physiologicaldoses makes no change in the child, but give it in a high potency__it does not u,ork below the 6th centesimal dilution, ot a doesbetter in the 3oth, I think-it begins to change them mentallyand physically. But again remember : the salt characteristicsmust be present. You must individualize; consider each child,each person who co'mes to you. Children are very inarticulate,but so'metimes you do get an intelligent mother wtro can tell youthe idiosyncrasies of her child, who hzis watched over it lovinglyand with care; and then you do get wonderful results, -.t.itmore striking than with adults, whose symptoms have so oftenbegn suppressed and muddled up and mixed up with so manyother things. You do not often get such a stupid mother as th;followitg, who told me she gave her boy every night on goipg tobed a dose o{ some kind of aspirin preparation in hot miik, ro utto make him sleep. "Aspirifrr" I exclaimed in great horror, "butthat is a very strong medicine to give, it weakens the heart even-tually, it depresses the nervous system, it suppresses all thesymptoms and by oxydizirg the oxygen in the cells, it kills theindividual cells and devitalizes the body." She would not believeffie, of course, when I told her all this. The posters everywherescreamed of the benefits that particular patent remedy gave tothose who patronized it, that she was ruining the childts r.rro.r,system and undermining its health, was nothing to her. "ft wasonly a fad of mine. She had seen it with her own eyes, in blackand white, what this drug could do, and nothirg I said convincedher I was right," she said. Of course, I to,ld her straight, I coulddo her child no good, and I refused to treat him, as long as shecarried on with this medicine. She went on her way ,rttr.p.ntingand scorned *y advice. Poor deluded wom?r, poor child to have

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such a blind mo'ther. I object to all the different pain killerswhich are so frequently the cause of accidental suicides who un-wittingly take an overdose. These should all be cast out far intothe ocean, where they rvill only kill the fish, instead of killingand underminig the health and the will power of so many usefullives. The indicated homapathic remedy will do better work thanall the sleeping-draughts and anodynes.

Let us hie back to our difficult children. In October, 1935, aboy o,f nine was brought to me with the fo,llowirg sympto'ms : hewas a great trial and anxiety to his parents, cruel and spiteful andjealous and suspicious to a degree, pinched and tormented catsand dogs, pinched and hurt and nearly killed his young sister bvsqueezirg her, because he was jealous of her; a wanderer, triedto run away from ho,me once or twice; bit his nails; had occa-sional nocturnal enuresis (bed-wetting) ; defaecated into hisknickers until quite recently, until he was told he would not get aSunday suit, but would have to wear his dirty trousers, until heimproved. As he was rather vain, he quickly decided to be good;it was all naughtiness, he was no,t mentally deficient. Had fits oftemper, shouted and screamed, bit, called peop,le all sorts ofnames; inso'lent and rude when spoken to, very silly and giggly,and laughed inordinately at times about nothing; fits of beingvery affectionate and then kissed everybody; liked new things,made himself very busy and liked to show off, not shy withstrangers, but quiet and well behaved-extremely so when hecame in to, me. There was only a suspicious sideways glance atffie, when I talked to him; wanted to know why I wanted himto undress, but decided he did not wish to be examined. Stoleeverything he could lay hands on in school; went into the larderand helped himself to food, very fond of sugar and sweets andjams. Had an accident and crushed his fingers in the door of amotor -car four years ago; scared and frightened of cars eversince. Fear of being alone, fear of a mirror, fear of going nearwater; fear of thunderstorrns. Stramonium has all these symptornsand Stramonium 30 was given. I forgot to mention, he got onvery badly at school, was no good at arithmetic; had periods "ofbeing blank" at school, and I think he had been turned out oftwo or three different schools as being too peculiar and difficult.Felt the co,ld, had perspiring hands and feet. Seen again at theend of November, irresponsible, spiteful, smacks the face of hissister, impulsive, drags and pulls her hair out; has screaming fits

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when he does not get the things he wants; rude and rough atschoo,l, kicks other children; sudden storms of rage. Stramonium

30 repeated.December rS)35. Hates contradiction, screams when thwarted,

no sense of right or wrong, spiteful. Strarnonium go night andmorning. January Bth, 1936: found out that there was tubercu-losis in the family; also tonsils and adenoids. Much steadier,brighter, not so scared or suspicious. I was able to examine himfor the first time. Some improvement at last ! Tuberculinum 30in occasional doses and Stramoniurn go every morning. January27th, r 936 : Great improvement, much brighter, answers veryintelligently. Tu,berculinum 30 again, and Stramonium go everymorning on rising. March 3rd, 1936: Very tired afternoons;always laughing, cannot stop laughing, shouts like mad if con-tradicted; afraid of feathers and of spiders; has no ideas of num-bers. Microcephalic. Stramoniurn 48m,. weekly. April 25th,r 936 : Getting on well at school; still very jealous of sister, andexcitable; afraid of thunderstorms. Repeat Stramonium +Bm.weekly. June r7th, r 936 : Much improved all round . Stramon-ium ABm. bi-weekly for a month. Jtly r7th, 1936 : Greatimprovement; very sulky still; hates his sisters and mother.Fluoric acid 30.

I have no,t seen the boy since, but have heard frorn an outsiderthat he is doing rvell and getting on very nicely at school.

A Stramonium child with all the Stramonium peculiarities, butthe indicated remedy, Sl ramonium, did no,t get to work until theunderlying constitution-tuberculosis-was tackled; then we gothim on very rapidly. Then later or, the deep lying family hatredwas revealed, and Fluoric acid was prescribed; did it finish thecase and cure it entirely ? People have an aggravating habit ofnot letting you know, and you are left wonde.irg. The child wasto have been sent down from school, ?s being too impossible;after the Strantonium, the school reports were good, and he waskept on. I surmise the improvement continued.

A friend of mine reproved me very much for not having men-tioned the "Chamomilla" child among the "difficult children".She looked for Chamomilla straight away and was very puzzledat not finding any reference made to it.

Now I had a very good reason for omitting Chamomilla sofar, and mentioning the Chamomilla child as a difficult child. Tomake myself clear I want to explain in detail the make-up of

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C hamomilla. It has an ugly, cussed temperament; it is nervy, is

easily angered and capricious, can't be spoken lo, uton't be

toucired, ir obstin ate, self-willed, easily chagrined. But the great

characteristic is that there is a definite physical reason for all this

cussed, ugly behaviour, for this chagrin, for the anger and the

irritabitity. -tt

is an acute reme dy and ygl only get the C hamo-

milla sympto,ms if there is pArN presenf. You get all these peculi-

arities in the teething children, either in infancy or later on

during the second. dentition, wittr the colic during teething, with

.uru.f,., neuralgia, headaches, in menstrual pain, and the labour

pains "i

the lying-in woman. The great outstanding feature is

iryp.rrensitiveness- to pain, oversensitive, snappy with pain,

suffers intensely from the slightest ache. They will ca.ll out "This

pain is more than I can bear, can't somethirg be done ?" You

find a C hamomilla chrld with the pangs of an erupting tooth ask-

irg daddy to carry him, then he holds out his arms to mamlrlf,

then he goes to nanny or back to daddy. He calls out for his

teddy beir, if he can speak, and when he gets it, he throws it in

one corner, "Don't want it; want my motor engine." FIe throws

that d.own when it is given to him, rvants his dinner and then

throws his plate across ih. table. Nothing pleases him, nothing is

right; shrieis and howls if he is not carried. His cheeks are red,

sometimes only one side of his face is red; his face is hot, while

the rest of the body is cold. Sweating of the head and scalp. The

pains and tempers are always worse after 9 o'clock at night, from

g o'clock until midnight, and sometimes g o'clock in the morning.

He is not one to suffer arry pain in silence. Everybody else must

suffer rvith him, his shrieks at night are so, penetrating that he

exhausts the patience of his father. In the working-class quarters,

the friendr und neighbours are so,sure that the poor child is being

maltreated that frequently the "Cruelty-to-Children" officer is

called in and the poor, innocent parents have to put up with the

ignomiry of bein[ visited by the "Cruelty man" to account for

tfr. shriekirg child. Thus insult is added to injury ! No wonder

that the distracted mother rushes to the out-patients' department

of the nearest hospital in order to b.g for a soothing draught ! She

usually gets Chtoial, which has the desired effect, it acts on the

brain-..llr and is a porverful dope., Naturally Homaopaths do

not approve of this dr.tg as it anrcsthetizes and temporarily _1ny-way purulyses the nerve cells of the brain and spinal cord. How

*,r.h simpler are our remedies, they are innocuous and do act

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just as well, if not better, without poisonirg and damagitg theall-important nuclei of the grey matter of the brain. One wishesthat the medical profession would deign to study o,ur pharma-copaia and try out our remedies.

It is curious how different people react to pain. One sees thiswell marked in the way people behave during labour. I rememberthe stoic wornan, who quietly walked up and down the ro'om,biting her lips and there was never a murmur, never a sigh evenuntil the very end, rvhen just a slight groan escaped her, forwhich she apologized. And she was only a poor coster woman !I admired her self-control. And on the other hand there is theC ham,omilla woman; over-sensitive to pain, and she lets youknow it, too ! She screams, she shouts, she throws herself about,she hits you, punches you, pulls your hair, until the poor doctoror nurse is black and blue all over. She is in such agonies of painthat she really does not know what she is do'ing. But give hersome C ham,om.illa, and you alter her at once. She becomes docileand quiet and the labour pains seem to become much easier andthe mental unrest and irritability are gone. C hamomilla anger andirascibility aln'ays reminds me of a sudden April shower andApril storm, it is short and sharp while it lasts, and aggravating,but it is over soon and the sun shines in between. The baby andthe toddler with his toothache and his colic will forget all about

his pain and his anger, as soon as it is over, and will be all smiles,and will be amiable, especially if he gets some Chamomilla. fn

coffee-drinking countries, as in the United States, in Germatry,in France, one often comes across C hanzomilla symptoms and

Chamomilla patients. Coffee and Chamomilla are antidotes-oneto the other.

Let me repeat it, C hantomilla symptoms zre associated with

pains and a, chitd that requires C hamomilla is not a real "diffi-cult child". When the cause is removed, when the tooth is

through, the pain ceases, the irritability goes, and the storm is

over.Another criticism reached me, this time from America, suggest-

ittg that difficult children were called "Problem children" there.

I stand corrected, for the psychologists do call them problem

children, for many do present rather serious pro,blems to the

psychologist, ancl it means long periods of observation and close

study of the behaviour of each child before a course, of treatment

can be suggested by the psychologist. The general physician,

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unless he is trained in psychological methods, can do very little

except shrug his shoulders and suggest that the child will prob-

ably grow out of it. Now I claim that the Homaopaths are better

psychologists than the psycho,logists themselves, at any rate they

were taught to consider each individual as a unit, to be separ-

ately watched, observed and studied long before the rest of the

profession thought fit to do so. And they also' possess positivemeans o{ curing psychological problems : i.e. by way of the

indicated remedy. Hahnemann, our founder, taught his disciplesto pay attention to the mental, as he calls it, sympto'ms-whichcorrespond to the modern time psychological re-actions. Thus we

have co,llected pages and pages of psychological symptoms, pro-

duced by the healthy prover of a remedy and fo'llowitg on the

principles of the law "that like cures like"-1hs same symptomsfound in the sick, that is mentally or psychologically infirm orabnorrnal persons rvill be cured by the similar remedy. Hence a

difficult child does no,t present such a "problem" to the true

follower of Hahnemann as to the psycho'logist.Let me present a few such problem children, if you like to call

them so. Some children are made difficult by their surroundings,by the wrong methods of training, or lack of training and discip-line; but others are "erblich belasted"-25 the Germans term it-have a hereditary weakness passed on through either mother

or father. I remember a very sad case rvhich I heard, when I

was a child my.self child with rather long ears I am afraid-who heard more than she was meant to, I am sure. The youngmother came from a very good family and married beneath heragainst her family's wishes. The result was, she was cast off, andunfortunately the young husband immediately lost his job andthe couple very often suffered from hunser and went throughvery hard da,vs, suffered so badly that she often stood outside thebaker's and the hotels, wishing she could go in and steal the foodto appease her hunger. When the little boy was born, and grer,t,up to about four or five years of ?-{e, he started to thieve andnothing n'ould make any differerlce. I{o punishments, ro gentlereprimands; he belonged to the light-fingered brigade. And theolder he grew the wo,rse his thieving propensities became. Themother had beco,me reconciled to her parents and the otherchildren were quite normal except the unfortunate firstborn.Nothing could be done with him, and he lvas taken before the

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magistrate who sent him to the penitentiary fo,r corrective train-irg. I do not recall whether by strict discipline at the IndustrialSchool this unfortunate psychological misfit outgrew his inheritedtendencies, but he could have been cured by homaopathic treat-ment. We have fifteen remedies to choose from for Klepto,mania.I have not come in personal contact since with cases of irresistibletendency to stealing; but if I should, I should know how toapproach the subject.

There are other psychological misfits I have met with, since Ihave passed the apprentice stage in Hom€opathy.

A little girl was first seen at two years and six months. She onlyH'eighed 2Z lbs., was about 7 lbs. underweight, and had spentnearly eighteen months in a large children's hospital, where shehad treatment for rickets. She was still wearing surgical bootsfor greenstick fractures of her l.g bones. She was a dirtychild, totally untrained and dirty in her habits, with attacksof wicked temper and mentally backn'ard, could not understandwhat was being said to her. She was put on cod liver oil, Idessert-spoonful twice daily, which the foster-mother religiouslycarried out. The child was one of the unwanted "strays" of thisrvorld. The mother had been infected with venereal disease andthe infant was born in a Lock hospital. The foster-mother, one ofthe practical saints of this rvorld, a great child lover who had anursery full of unwanted children, whom she gets through vari-ous rescue societies, and whom she strives unceasingly to makeinto healthy boys and girls. Alas, with but indifferent success ! Atthree years eight months this little misery weighed only 27 lbs.12 ozs., she had a tremendous appetite, was always eating enor-mous meals, and still remained 7 lbs. underweight for her age.On these symptoms she was given Sulphur go for a time, butthree months later the rn'eight was still the same, even though shehad plenty of milk, plenty of good food, and three teaspoons o,fcod liver oil daily. The foster-mother reported three months later,rvhen she was four years old, that the child was very secretive anddestructive, scratched windows with flirrts, lied and sto,le thingsout of dran'ers, and hid the articles, and then denied having doneso. I did not see her again until the beginnitg of October rgZTwhen the foster-mother reported that she was still stealing andwas always setting things on fire. f remembered the famitry historyof syphilitic infection and asked her to be brought along for anexamination. She was over five years old and weighed n lbs,

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7 ozs., still g lbs. underweight, looked pale and undersized,, agreat s2fsv-psychological report, bites other children, thron'sthings out of the windows, is quarrelsome, lies and steals thingsfrom the school and is always setting things on fire in the house.The syphilitic family history and the tendency of setting things onfire, and the bold, naughty behaviour, quarrelsome, etc.r g?ve methe remedy : Hepar sulph., which she was given. No other altera-tions were made in diet or mental treatment. She was seen againon January 6th, 1938, when she was found to have gained zfrlbs., in three months ! She had taken eight months previously toput o,n zI lbs.; there was a distinct improvement in the generalmetabolism; the child looked well, had a good colour and wasmuch brighter. She had made no, further attempt to lightmatches or set the house on fire. The foster-mother could notmake it out and she thought she had been more carefully super-vised ! She had several doses of. Hepar sulph. in a high potency.She still requires further treatment; but the unpleasant tendencyof fire raising has been controlled; and the rest, the love for steal-itg sweets and dainties, will be controlled in a short time. It isvery interesting to, find how quickly Homaopathy acts, if onegets the right remedy. This child, of course, with a syphiliticmother, a f.ather who is rarely sober, is much to be pitied, and isvery poor stuff to try and improve and build o'n. One has needof psychological treatment for these fire raisers, but I do notremember how long a time is required before a cure is achieved.My experience is, that these psychological cases take years beforeany appreciable improvement takes place. I may be wrong; but Ithink Homaopathy compares very favourably as regards thetime taken to bring about a cure.

HOMGOPATHY II{ WOMEN'S AILME,NTS

Tnn number of unnecessary operations performed on haplesswomen in the course of a, \/ear all over England must go intomany, many thousands. I came across a poor woman today,white, bloodless, haggard, rvho told me a pitiful tale. Never wellsince the birth of her child eighteen months

"go, frequent attacks

of hremorrhage, several periods of many weeks spent in hospital.Her inside had been "cleaned out", AS she called it, several times.Now she was sent home to recuperate for the next big operation :removal of some more of her organs. She took it as a matter ofcourse, wAS rather prcud of it than othenl'ise, and her case is oneof many.

I learned long ago that Hornapathy can do a great deal forthese poor sufferers, even in apparently hopeless cases. Manyyears zgo, in nly early youth, when I was rvaiting for work todrop in, a woman was bro,ught in by her friends. She was almostin a state of collapse, thin, elderly, sallow, with deep lines ofsuffering and pain on her face, a typical uterine complexion. Isaid to myself : "What could I do for her ?" I asked her whatshe complained of : Oh, she had a terrible big lump in her groinwhich made it difficult for her to walk or sit down. On examina-tion, I found a rnass bigger than a cricket ball in the fork of herlegs, a complete prolapse of the female organs. She had beenmany times to the big general hospital nearby and was thedespair of the dressers and of the young doctors. The pessary, theuterine support, put in during the mornins, would be out beforeeventide many times. She had been given the largest supportsthey had in stock, and not one would "stay put". She had beenordered to have an operation to stitch up the prolapsed organs,but had flatly refused. Now she carne to rne to get some help.

I was in a predicament. My medical training said r "Operationis the only thing." My knou,ledge of honrceopathic drugs whis-pered : "Try the indicated remedy." The organ was replaced,and the pessary put it, and with fear and trembling a dose ofS e pia I ,ooo potency was given on her history and such few

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sympto,ms as I could get out of the poor, distracted, pain-rackedwoman; mainly on her physical appearance, yellow liver spots onher face, great depression, irritability, a great sufferer from thecotrd.

I expected to have her back on my doorstep very soon. Noth-irg happened. Doy after duy lvent by, and she did no,t appear.She had gone to hospital, and had her operation after all, Ithought. Three months later a bright, pink and white com-plexioned wo,man, middle-aged, carne it, and introduced twonew patients to, me. "Don't you remember me ?" It was myrvreck of a woman with a prolapse. "Have you had your opera-tion ?" "Oh, no !" was the reply. "I have still got the ring in.I feel so different, so huppy and full of energy." I could hardlybelieve my eyes. The incredible had been achieved. The liga-ments and muscles o,f the pelvic floor had tightened up and hadkept the pe$sary in. She wore the pessary for six months o,r so,and after this we dispensed with it entirely. The prolapse nevercame back as long as I knew her. This was fon about seven years.This wo,man had been saved fro,m a dangerous operation andfrom a tedious and long-drawn-out convalescence at the cost ofwhat ? A single powder o,f S e pia I ,ooo potency which only re-quired to be repeated at six months intervals.

After this case my work consisted largely in saving people fromunnecessary surgical operations. There was a dark-haired younggirl of r g o,r 2o, full-blooded, with scanty menstrual flow, intensedragging-down pains in her abdomen. She had a displaceduterus, suffered frorn severe pains in the forehead with disturb-ance of visior, pain in the bottom of the back, the sacruln; greatsuffering during menstrual periods, great heats in the head,emptiness of stomach and ho,t soles of feet. All her sympto'Inswere very like Sulphur. Yet she was irritable with it, could notspeak a decent word to anybody even in the office, could not bearsympathy, and withal was like a Pulsatilla patient, for she couldnot stand a \ /arrn room and liked to be out in the cold. Thispatient had been told by a surgeon that she required a curettingfor intense sufferittg at the rnenstrual periods and probably lateran operdtion to fix the misplaced uterus. One or two doses ofLilium tigrinu,nx in a high potency relieved her suffering, so thatshe could attend to her r,r'ork and laugh at the thoughts of anoperation. This is the way to individualize remedies, compare andcontrast.

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And r,vhat about the dozens o{ young girls with acute men-strual pains, with sickness and vomiting and scanty periods, withtimes of silent agony, bitter wrangling with fate for having putall this suffering, month after month, or one to bear ! What isthe usual advice given to such an unfcrtunate being ? Again anoperation which may help her for five or six months, and then areturn of the agony. fn many cases all that is wanted is a dose ortwo of Pulsatilla, or ,Jul,phur, or Sepia-if only the poor victimsknew-without any degradirg examination even.

Readers should not think that the cures described offer anyexceptional features, or that they require any exceptional abilityon the part of the prescriber. Mr. Ellis Barker has collected in hisbook, Miracles of Healing, hundreds of similar cures of gyneco-logical and other diseases, performed by more than a hundredhomaopathic doctors. Thev are everyday events in the lives ofhomcopaths, and I am sure, there are dozens of ho,maopathswho could have done just as well as I have done. Furthermore, itis not necess ary to treat such cases with single, or very rare) dosesof medicine in a high potency. A number of doses in a low ormedium p,otency would have done just as well.

Surgery should be the handmaiden of Medicine. fn the o'ldendays right up to the eighties, the physician was more highlyrespected than his bro,ther the surgeon; indeed, the pornpousphysician, complete rvith snuff-box, which he used to keep offbad humours and fevers-H'ig and golden-headed cane, lookeddovm on the barber surgeon who'm he only employed in a menialposition, i.e. in the frequent blood-lettings fashionable at thetime, and perhaps for the crushing operations for stone in thebladder. Otherwise surgery \,vas very little knon'n, except foramputations for gunshot wounds and fractures o,n the battlefields.Most of these operations were unsuccessful, as the patients suc-cumbed in large numbers to wound fevers due, as \,ve know now,to sepsis.

No wonder that a surgeon was only called in as a very lastresort. All this changed completely after the discoveries of suchbrilliant men as Semmelweiss of Vienna who found the cause ofpuerperal fevers which ravaged the maternity hospitals in thoseCays-of Pasteur, who first discovered bacteria of Lister, u'homade surgical operations no longer playthings of chance by usingantiseptics to kill the fatal bacteria-of Simpsor, r,r'ho first used

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anrsthetics, and thus took away the ghastly horror of conscious-ness of pain. The combined effects of these discoveries helpedsurgery on enormously. The surgeon became bo'lder, ?s patientssurvived their tnanipulations, and more and more brilliant opera-tions were invented, as the technique improved, and nowadayssurgery has reached its zenith.

Operations on the heart, the lungs, the spleen and the brainare daily performed successfully, as far as the surgeon is con-cerned. ft has become a mechanical job, one wonders if thepatient is not often a mino,r consideration, and his pains, his dis-abilities are as great, if not worse, after the operation than they\,vere previously. Certain indefinite symptoms are present in thepatient; he has caught a germ, it is said; his appendix, he is told,must be removed. It is done; months go by; still the same un-pleasant symptoms recur; now the blame is put on the gall-bladder-or it may be uice uersa-and is brilliantly dealt with.Still the patient feels ill or is never r,vell; some other part of hisanatomy is investigated and fixed upon as being useless, may in-deed be fatal to him, he is told if left; it might be his tonsils orhis frontal sinus or even a large part of his bowels may have tobe sacrificed at the altar o'f the great god Moloch, and so themerry race goes on. Alas ! that surgery only is considered for somany ailments, for only the products of the disease are removedby the knife, the actual cause o,f all the trouble is not touchedand is still the same as it was before the operation and continuesto act. It is no wonder, that most young medical men go in forsurgery; the kudos are much greater and somethirg definite isbeing done : while until recently there \^/as very little treatmentfor a rnedical case except, "refer to a surgeon".

A w-ell-known brilliant surgeon in Dublin who excelled in mostout-of-the-way, venturesome operations, spoke very slightingly tome years ago of the uselessness of medicines. "They are all rub-bish and should be thrown overboard, with the exception of per-haps one or two pain-killing drugs. You don't believe in medi-cines, do you ?" he turned to me, then the young tyro just freshfrom the schools. I suppose he saw the faintly doubting expres-sion in my face. "Oh, no," f quickly replied, r,vith a proviso inmy mind-it u,oulcl not do to offend the great man. Certainly Idid not believe in the efficacy of the medicines, as I had seenthem appliecl in the wards o,f the famous hospital, rvhere I was

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trained. They might just as well not have been given. T'he ex-pectant treatmcnt, the do-nothing and leave-it-to-nature method,did just as well and very often better than drastic over-dosing.

Surgery is glamorous, but medicine is more wonderful still ifyou know how to prevent illness, and how to prevent operations.

Many operations are unnecessary, and even such things as newgrowths and tumours can be removed without the aid of theknife. This is not an exaggeration or an idle staternent.

Tumours have been cured in the past, our homaopathic litera-ture is full of examples, and they are daily being cured now, andmore rvould be cured, if Homaopathy were given a chance. Butthe surgical technique has developed to such a fine art that onlysurgery is considered for any case of growth or tumour.

"You must have an operation," the patient is told. "Nonsense,it can't be removed by medicines," if he or she feebly and hesi-tantly objects, and so they are swept off their feet and into ahospital ward before they have time to look round. Surgeonsforget that you may remove the tumour safely, but you do notremove or cure the cause, the original cause in the first instancethat produced the tumour. And that can only be done by treatingeach patient individually, taking the full history in the minutestdetails, and by building up and rectifyirg the constitution, thepatient is made well and strong, the tendency to grow tumoursis put right and frequently, in the majority o,f the cases, thetumour itself disappears, never to return. In a few cases thetumour may have to be removed surgically, but the patient bythat time is fully well and strong, 2s his health has been builtup, and he can stand the operation better.

Years ago I came across such a worn &fl, a patient of the lateDr. Ridpath, who was a very keen Homaopath. She had beentreated by him for a large fibroid of the uterus, and she was quiteunlike any other fibroid patient I had ever met before. Shelooked so healthy, so bright and well, she had hrcmorrhages,she had palpitations, but all these had stopped : there were no,constitutional symptoms, only the foreign body, the large fibroid,was left. She stayed in hospital for three weeks and never turneda hair, and I have never seen a patient get over an operation soeasily and quickly. Dr. Ridpath must have been a wonderfulHomaopath to implant such faith in his patients and build uptheir health, so that they could go through operations so well. Irather smiled a smile of disbelief when this lady told me about

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other cases of fibroids being cured without o,perations; butyouth is rash and condemns quickly.

With greater experience I have come to the conclusion that itis not only probable, but almost certain that fibro'ids and othertumours can be cured medicinally; but it requires time andpatience, and the patient must be willing to keep under treat-ment and carcy out instructions faithfully. The late Dr. Burnetthad many brilliant cures of tumours of breast, uterus and otherparts of the body to his credit, and his writings are veryillurninating. He mentions one cure of a very large fibroid whichtook three years in the curing and complete removal-by medi-cines; probably it might have been quicker if the lady had notbeen so devotecl to travellirg and had not absented herself some-times for months. Another case took well over two years; cer-tainly an operation rvould have been quicker, but people forgetthe invalidism that follows after an operation, and many peopleare never the same afterwards. "Is it not tnuch better to leave apatient lvhole instead of removitg a woman's organs who,lesale,and leaving her crippled and weakly ?"

Listen to this case history :Mrs. 8., aged +r years, seen first at the end of October 1935.

Complains of proftrse hremorrhages. Her medical practitionerdiscovered uterine fibroids and advised operation. She came formedical treatment instead, having heard what Homaopathycould do. Pale, exsanguinated woman, thin, tired, red lips,

6round-shouldered and bent. M.P.- + + flow, bright red colour,

z Gwith dark red clots. Has prolapse of the abdomen for which shehas worn a belt for years. Very sensitive to diapers which ir ritatethe skin very much. Short of breath, worse exertion, worseascendirg stairs, does not eat fat meat, feels wo,rse about I I a.m.,felt worse during heat of summer; pain in back, mid-scapularregion, better resting, better lying down; indigestion, flatulence,swollen and distended feeling after eating, better eructation, hasto take bicarbonate of soda for it; very constipated ; takesNormacol; on examination found several small fibroids; uterusitself rvas very heavy, ante-flexed and fibrotic, extended to quitethree fingers' breadths above symphysis pubis. Prescribed Sulphur6 t.d.s. on general symptoms.

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January 7th, 1936 (two months later). M.P. four days only,clots much less; indigestion much better, not so swollen afterfood; uterus smaller, only just above symphysis pubis andnodules not so distinct. Heard for the first time that there was atendency to tuberculosis; had been in a sanatorium for apicaltuberculosis; cannot take cod liver oil.

(t) Tuberculinum 30. Four powders at weekly inte,rvals.(z) Fraxinus americana O . Five drops night and morning.Fraxinus is one of Dr. Burnett's organ remedies, which he

took over fro'm Rademacher, and with which he cured manycases of uterine fibroids and heavy sub-involuted uteri.

Lost sight of patient for six months.Seen again on July r rth, 1936.Periods less; feels better during periods ; has had no treatment

since end of March; constipation improved, do,es no,t takeNormaco'l any more; nocturnal frequency has stopped ; sputumexamined in Muy; no tuberculosis found. Had influenzain Apriland cough for weeks afterwards.

4 daysM.P. regula Per. vag.; uterus smaller.

e6 daysThe general practitioner who first discove red the fibroids

examined her in April and found to his surprise that the fibroidshad practically disappeared. Indigestion much improved, can eatanything now and does not take bicarbonate of soda, as there isno longer any fullness after meals; enjoys going out to dinnerI10W.

Continued Fraxinus americana O mins.V night and morning.December t lth, 1936. Much better; uterus small, fibroids

appear to have gone. No, frequency of micturition, no, indiges-tion ; but sick headaches before periods; feels co,ld now ; worsesympathy; better company; fear of being alone in the house;fear of thundersto,rms; worse mornings. On the general symptomsshe received lr{at. mul.30 for her sick headaches, which is anold symptom recurrirg.

She is still not out of the wood, her constitution has no,t beencomp,letely built up yet, but her fibroids have disappeared.

Unfortunately she is a busy \4roman and has no time to giveto her ailments. If she had been attendirg more regulatly, morelikely her constitutional sympto,ms would have improved more

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quickly. It is a triumph for Homaopathy to cure fibroids withinfourteen months, and at the same time to improve a woman'shealth so that she can enjoy life more than she ever did before.She is very pleased that she escaped the operation, I am to,ld.

She has been seen again quite recently, and the cure still holdsgood.

TROIJBLE,S OF'THE, CHANGE, OF' LIF'E,

A cREAT deal of rubbish is written and talke d about "TheChange".

"A \4/oman is finished after 4or" one doctor told a womanpatient of mine. I could not quite get his meaning. Did he meana wo,man could not bear any more children after +o and wastherefone a useless burden to the man, or did he imply thatwomen automatically became invalids during the tnenopauseand were, therefore, finished and hence no more good tohumanity ? In neither of these points was that doctor mancorrect, for I have known women having children long after theywere 4o-.

One woman I remember got married at 39 and had threechildren during the three followitg years. Another wonlan aftera twenty-five years' pause came for so-callecl "disturbances dueto change", and I discovered a five months' pregnatrcy, and shewas 53 and a grandmother of several years' standitg ! We nearlycame to blows over it; quite a serious matter for me , ?s she wasa hefty coster-woman and used to fighting rvith hcr fists. Icalmed the good lady by offering her a good bet on my beingright, and her sporting instincts conquered, much to my relief.lVe became very good friends in the end, and the lusty boy shepresented her husband with in due course was much admired inthe family. I never got my 5.r, though, but saved Iny reputation,rvhich was of greater value to me.

And what about the number of women lvho do much valuablework after middle-age as magistrates, J.P.u, on Social Councilsand other committees too numerous to mention here ? Would youcall their work useless ? It is quite true that women suffer, andmany suffer a great deal during this period of chailge, and muchirreparable damage is done to their constitution by over-drug-ging and wrong drugging, and years of misery might be savedthem if they knew what to do. Beware of patent remedies, awaywith all the numerous sleeping draughts. Avoid alcohol in anyshape or form during these fateful years; a peculiar feeling of

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exhaustion comes over a wo,man frequently, ancl in desperationshe takes "a drop" to strengthen herself and to o,vercome thisweakness. "Ah, that touches the spot. I feel so muzzy and thisjust does itr" a Lancashire wo,man used to say to me. A mostdangerous habit this; one drop leads to a glass, and soon a glassleads to a bottle, and the dangerous habit of tippling commences.These cases of drunkenness in wornen are caused more by this"just taking a drop" than anything else.

But what to do, with this feeling of tiredness, this exhaustion,the terrible heats and the flushes, the bursting headaches whichall but too commonly accompany the change ?

Here Homaopathy is again an invaluable ally. It cures easilyand quickly without exposing a woman to any dangers, such asthe drugs, belongitg to the barbiturates do. There are many ofthem, which may at first give much relief, but soon the organismgets used to their action. One has to take larger and larger doses,and an over-dose is so easily taken and then-a co,r'oner'sinquest.

Remember our homaopathic Materia Medica is full ofremedies that fit the menopause.

There is Sulphur, that famous polychrest Sulphur. We havesuch symptoms as "Heat on top of the head, flushes in the face,the patient from congestion in the head feels oppressed, shewants windows and doo,rs open, she feels so weak at r r a.m., afaintness o,r gone sensation in sto,mach." No need for port orbrandy or whisky. A small dose of Sulphur or a short course ofSulphur in quite a few days will charm away these symptorns.

I recollect a woman so,me time ago. She had the sympto,ms Imentioned which I could only extract with great difficulty. Allshe complained of was "she was so tiredr" she could not doanything, she had to sit down and rest, her periods had stopped,she was losing weight, her skin was co,arse and inclined to lookdirty. She was a very energetic woman as a rule; but when Iwent into her house I noticed how untidy everything was. Thewhole family Lrad recently moved to a new house, for weeks after-wards that house remained unfinished, as I had seen it the firstweek after removal, still the unpacked boxes, etc., everywhere.The beds were unmade at 12 o'clock, everything was indescrib-ably dirty and untidy. The children were not properly washed,their clothes were torn. I saw Sulphur around me in that houseeverywhere. So the lady got it, and the change when I saw her

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some time afterwards was astouncling. Curtains up everywhere,new furniture, all the boxes had disappeared, the beds weremade, the linen was clean, the personal cleanliness of mother'schildren was beyond reproach. And the wo,man had go,t buxomagain, clear red cheeks, tro complaints of tiredness, a generalfeeling of comfort and well-being in the house.

Sulphur is a great friend to the over-taxed, over-tired womenin the forties.

Now do' not run away with the idea that Sulphur is the onlyremedy for the menop,ause, ro, greater mistake could be madethan this. The individual has to be considered in this trouble aswell as in any other complaint. I shall illustrate this remark bycases. A certain lady was giving me her symptoms and, whiletalking about her sudden outbreaks of hot perspiration in a close,warrn room which incommoded her very much, I noticed thather eyes filled with tears and without telling me any more, Iknew that her remedy was Pulsatilla. I heard fro,m her colle,aguesat the office that she was irritable and changeable, very touchy,which confirmed my diagnosis. So she duly received her quotaof Pulsat,illa with excellent results; her temper became sweeter,her sweats ceased, and her general health improved vastly inquite a short time, to everybody's delight. "She is much easierto get on with" I was told. Homaopathy is a very good "temper"medicine, which I have proved both to myself and to others. Forexample, a little girl who had been receiving some pills from mefo,r some malady which had made her very irritable, seeing herfather in an outburst of rage, fetched her box of pills and presen-tecl her father, "Daddy, have one of my pills, they always makeme feel good tempered." But we are not talking of bad temper,so, we had better return to, our sub,ject.

Another time a middle-aged lady was consulting me abouther violent headaches, a terrible feeling as if the top of her headwas torn off; she was very jr.r*py, very hysteri cal, drove her hus-band to distraction by her fidgets, both duy and night ; at nightswhichever side she luy oo, began to twitch, thus preventing sleep.The muscles at the back of the reck were so sore and bruised thatthe head was drawn back stiffiy. Friends had advised osteopathictreatment; well, I could not see anything wrong with her spine;she was assured that her nerves would soon be a thing of thepast, that her headaches would disapp ear, and her rheumatism

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would no more trouble her; she received Cimicifrgo, an Ameri-can plant, and again rapidly she got well, greatly to my relief,for at first she always had such a lot to sel, I could never getrid of her, she calmed down so, wonderfully that she had verylittle to say about herself, all her little fads and fancies hadevaporated into the blue. At first she strongly reminded me ofanother remedy, namely, Lachesis, which is also a "talking"drug, but the headaches were totally different. The character ofthe rheumatic pains was so distinctive of Cinicifuga that in thiscase it could not be anything else.

Now that I have mentioned Lacheses, we might just as well goon with it, for ir is one of the most frequently indicated drugs introubles o,f the change of life. Now a person requiring Lachesas isvery characteristic. One meets them so often in all kinds ofwomen's complaints which are normally very slow to cure, thatone is very sorry that orthodox medicine does not know of it andnever is likely to know it, unless an enterprising drug manufac-turer hears of it and starts to put it on the market with a double-barrelled name attached to it. In the meantime, let ordinarydoctors sneer as much as they like and say Lachesis or snakepoison-it is derived fro'm a South American rattlesnake-cando no good or possibly no harm, as it is digested by the gastricjuices, especially when taken in such small doses, as we give it.The people who have been cured by it of their ills would gladlytestify to its efficacy, were they asked to do so.

Let me give you an example or two : early last September Inoticed that the mother o'f one of my little patients was verywhite and drawn, she acknowledged having a severe headache,to which she was subject every ten days or so; they carne over herin waves, beginning at the back and passing over to the front ofthe head, along with it she had distressing palpitations of theheart and pulsations of the body. There was no need to go intofurther details. I knew what she required.

Now did I give her a dose of headache powder as any ortho-dox cloctor would have done, or a nurse, or for that, anychemist o,r even most luy people, so much has this evil andpernicious habit of self-druggitg penetrated into all circles ? No,this wo,man received the indicated remedy. She was given onepowder of. Lachesis 30, she w?s not told what to expect; for allshe knew she had just received a dose of so,me sort of pain-killer.I saw her again in a month's time. The change was most striking,

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she smiled at me and explained that she had had no headachessince her previous visit, an unknown pleasure for years, so,me-thing which had never happened after taking asp,irin. She hadbeen troubled with these heads for ye ars, and they had gotsteadily worse, and now that the change had started, they hadalmost become unbearable. She received another dose o,f. Lachesisabout six weeks after the first, for a slight return of the symp-toms; that was four months ago. I see her at regular intervals,there has been no return of the headaches, the palpitations haveceased, the sleep is undisturbed as well, the wo,man herself looksyears younger.

Coincidence, you szl, the headaches would have stopped any-how, they often do when the menses cease. Granted-but themonthlies have become more regular again, altogether she hastaken on a new lease of life. Have you ever seen this happen aftera course of aspirin ? If you are honest, you will agree with methat aspirin only removes the headache temporarily by suppres-sing the pain, the headache or any other pain for that which youtake aspirin always comes back, and you have to take stro'ngerand stronger doses, in the end finishing off by changitg over tomore powerful anodynes or pain removers. You never see thebloom of youth return to a middle-aged woman-without theartificial aid of cosmetics, mind you-after pain-killers; but youdo see this n'onder occur before your very eyes again and again,after a properly-indicated remedy has been taken.

However, this is not a lecture on beauty-surgery; so we hadbetter reuenons d nos moutons, as our friends across the Channelsay.

As we are on the subject of headaches during the change oflife, my mind recalls another victim of this distressing complaintof the "foolish forties." She had very exacting work to do whichdemanded close mental application. One hot summer she wasextremely bothered r,r'ith bursting headaches, which she describedto me as fo'llows : "Surging pulsations and hammering of thehead, nearly driving her frantic, much worse in the warm roomand the heat of the sun, relieved by opening the window, cannotlie down in bed, has to sit up in bed in order to get any sleep atall." She got very scared, too, by attacks of palpitations on goingup hill . Glonoin or Trinitrin covered all these alarming symptomsand speedily enabled her to face her long co,lumns of figures withrenewed energy. These menopausal disturbances may require any

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one of the more common remedies; a cho,ice of some forty odddrugs is mentioned in the large repertories under the rubric"Menopause" alone, and that does not include all the medicines,you may have to study in order to, really and truly cure theindividual.

Now let us tackle another very common and even more crip-pling and most alarming symptoffi, namely, haemorrhage. Theorthodox medical profession has very little to offer in the way o,ftreatment for these unfortunate sufferers. The American Eclecticschool who are practically unknown in this country, have variousherbal reinedies for vicarious and excessive bleeding, and so hasthe common o,r garden herbalist : but the medical drug cupboardis particularly bare in this respect.

Alas ! that the majority of the medical practitioners, even inthese enlightened days do not wish to hear about Homaopathy,but condemn it unheard. The mere name Homaopathy is like ared rag to, a bull to most of them, and thus they miss manyopportunities of curing maladies which they declare incurable,except by the knife. Now this is the typical sequence of events : aprofessional woman depending o'n her own earnings to keepherself, was seriously incapacitated by what is technically calledI\4enorrhagia. For a long time she was dosed with ergo,t, nearlythe only rernedy the ortho'dox practitioners know fo,r hremor-rhage. When this was found to be less than useless, she washanded over to the surgeon, and he curetted her first. Later thetrouble still persistitg, she was placed on the operatirg tableagain and robbed of most of her reproductive organs. She was illfor months after this, recuperating from this cruel and quiteunnecessary shock to her constitution.

If this woman had been under the care of a homaopathicphysician, she r,vould have been saved endless expense, suffering,and hcr health rvould havc bccn a hundredfold better. An extra-vagant claim, you say-yes, maybe--fou1 the homaopathicliterature is full of more marvellous cures than this co,mparativelysimple one of curing and stopping hrcmorrhages. There aretwenty-two remedies given in the repertory under : "Hrcmor-rhages in the Climacteric Period," and most of them work inrecord time, provided the patient is willing to give her co-operation and allows the doctor to take a, full history of hersymptoms. The minutest details are essential and, zs I saidbefore, a cure can be guaranteed. Aty of the remedies already

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mentioned may be needed. The menorrhagic patient may requireSul,phur, and then you would find Sulphur symptoms. Or shemay need Lachesis, and then she would present you withLachesis symptoms.

A long time 3Bo, I met a Lachesis patient with a hrcmor-rhagic history. She had a lot to say for herself, like all theLachesis individuals, she had the bursting heads I have alreadydescribed, she was hypersensitive to to,uch, the face was some-what mottled, she suffered from the heat, suffocated in a warmroom, and the uterine hrmorrhage was dark, almost black. Allher symptoms r,vould clear up with the hremorrhage, that is, theduy she rvould be losing, she would be free from headache; thenext duy she had her headache, but no' hremorrhage. So she wasmiserable the rvho,le time. After a few short weeks on Lachesis,her tale had changed to a jubilate; she took up her o'ld life andher old duties with renewed zest, she had been practically aninvalid fo,r a long time past. And the cost to, her was negligible,no expensive operation, no pro,longed convalescence. How muchmore preferable, do you not think so ?

I have not mentioned a Sepia patient so far, which is some-rvhat remiss of ffie, as S e pia is so, often indicated in wo,men'scomplaints. The uterine hrcmorrhage is generally associated withpro'lapse of the organ, down-bearing pains; they are usually tall,thin people, easily depressed, cold and frigid and spiteful, tiredof affectior, disliking sympathy. You see women like this almostevery duy in every walk of life. With it all they have a peculiarco,mplexion, a sallowness, a yellowish-brown discoloration on theface and a yellow saddle, as it is described in the Materia N{edicabooks, across the nose. If you meet such a woman, you can betvour bottom dollar that she wants a dose of S e pia, and thatS e pia will put an end to all her sufferings. f , fo'r one, should notlike to be without Sepia. It does valiant work fo,r us wo,men,young or old.

We must not forget Calcarea carbonica either. You did notkno,lv that lime was a valuable ally to the ho'maopathic physi-cian, did you? Calcarea carbonica women are pale, flabby fo'lk,relaxed and cold, and reserved. Usually they have been busypeople who ha.ve become tired through overwork. One calls tomind several people suffering from heavy and continuoushremorrha.ges during the change, and hardly anybody bleeds as

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much as a patient who needs Calcarea carbonica. Their symp-toms point to Calcarea carbonica. When they receive a fewdoses of lime, they lose their chalky look and their muscles firmup all round, the hremorrhage eases up, too, and there is noneed to trouble the surgeon.

At the present moment I have another patient who has beencured wiihout surgery. Her reme dy *ui, and still ir, Ir{uxuomica. She has been bleeding profus.ly, just a continual oo,ze,she was very sensitive to her surroundings, very irritable, in fact,irascible; always quarrelling with her colleagues, terribly easilyoffended ; she felt the co'ld so much and disliked a draught of air;as for her dyspepsia, that was quite a curse to her, it was alwayswith her, severe pain about an hour after food, always takingthings for constipation. A short course of. Ir{ux uomica, and shebccame sweeter tempered, and the bleeding was gone. You see,it is quite easy to recognize the Ir.'u,,r patient.

There are ,several other remedies, which might be called forduring the climacteric hremorrhages, such as S abina. f n S abinacases the blood is bright red, they have got violent pains shootittgup from the sacrum to the front or from the fork upwards to thenavel; if you get a worlan with these pains and the bright redfluid blood, instead of giving ergot, as is the routine, try a fewdoses of S abina, and you will be surprised how soon the bleedingwill stop. In fact the patient will probably think that it stoppedon its own account. S abina is an acute remedy, and if thehrcmorrhage recurs again and again, you will require what iscalled a chronic drug, such as Sulphur, Calcarea, etc., accordirgto the symptoms.

The climactr:ric woman who requires Crocus has quite differ-ent symptoms. She is rather hysterical, has hrmorrhages withdark clots, ancl a feeling of weight in the lower part of herabdomen so strongly marked that she is certain that she is aboutto become a mother, and nothing that you or any other doctorcan s"y, r,vill convince her that this is not so. "But, doctor, I feelthe baby move." One mother booked with the nurse in spite ofall I said to persuade her to the contrary. We even had a bet onthe huppy event coming off. I pro'mised her f,,5 if the baby wasborn at the tirne she, stated it was due; so certain was I that I\^/AS right. She had some few doses of Crocus, and she, forgot herprevious delusion and countermanded the nurse.

Another woman with identical ideas went on for t\,t'o years

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trying to persuade various hospitals in her neighbourhood that

she was pregnant. In the end she gave up the unequal contest

and put her head in the gas oven. I was grieved, but she was not

my patient. Homceopathy would have saved her life. In a case

like this the non-treating homapathic doctor is at a great dis-

advantage. He must stand by and can say nothing; the luy

person can speak up and advise different treatment and change

of docto,rs.We have a choice of remedies for bleeding during the change.

We are not restricted to only one drug, such as ergot, as the

allopaths, and when this fails, as it so often does, no'thitg remains

but to advise an operation. And the poor woman is mutilated

unnecessarily and suffers endless pain. How much better is the

way of the true healer rvho depends on medicines, herbs of the

field in some cases; in others, or metals or salts of metals which

are given accordirg to a definite law, and which very rarely let

you do,wn, and then it is generally due to not being able to find

the right drug. In such a case apply to another authority whose

knowledge of drugs is greater than your own, and combined

efforts rvill often achieve the apparently impossible. Only in

cases of abso,lute emergencies should a surgeon be sent for.

TUMOURS

A suRGEoN laughed at the idea that a small pea-like cyst of thetongue could be removed by means of medicines; yet he wastreading on dangerous ground, for tumo,urs are visible to theeye and palpable to the touch, and are therefore objective andtheir medicinal removal cannot be laughed o,ut of coutr, ffi "faithcures" or the disappearance o,f merely subjective symptoms, suchas you find in rheumatism and other diseases. Is it not curiousthat a man who stands in awe of the power which a minuteorganism such as a bacillus typhosus or streptococcus possessesand H'ho fears the power of an ultramicroscopic virus which issaid to be the cause of measles and whoopirg cough, despisesand disbelieves in the potency of an attenuated remedy over amere tumour ? "There are more things in heaven and earth,Horatius, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

There is an old tale which is known to Homaopaths, and itwill bear re-telling, a veritable "sermon in stones"-whichproves the truth of our law that like cures like. Here it is. Acertain Dr. Garth Wilkinson went to Iceland, and he noticed thatanimals grazing on pastures which were covered with the fineashes from the lava of Mount Hecla, suffered from enorrnousbony tumours of the ju*. He brought some of the ashes back toE ngland, triturated it, made it into pills and used it to cureexostosis and other bony tumours, both in horses and humanbeings. Dr. Burnett and several other homaopathic physiciansfollowed his example, and since that time Hecla lava, as it is stillcalled, is a commonly used remedy for certain types of spongy,bony tumours, which disapp ear very rapidly .ttti., it, use. It ismore frequently employed in the lower potencies, such as thethird decimal, that is t I t,ooo grain doses, or second centesimaltriturations, i.e., in r / to,ooo grain doses. I had an interestingcase several years back; a woman in the fifties presented herselfn'ith a very hard tumour of the kidney. She was sent to asulgeon rvho t'emoved it and sent her o,ut cured. Twelve monthslater she calne back with a recumence of the disease, again sent

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to the surgeon who refused to operate and put her straight

on enorrnous doses of morphia, because of the great pain she

suffered from, rn'hich became so acute that quite appreciable doses

of morphia did not relieve it. She came back and asked : could

no,t somethirg more be done for her ? So one was led, rather late

in the duy, to try what homaopathy could do. She was put on

Hecla laua 3x, three times a duy, and was taken off the morphia,

and the Hecla lauo absolutely removed the pain. The woman had

the typical malignant look, a wasted, pallid, exhausted wreck.

She picked up in the most astonishing manner, her pallor dis-

appeared, her weakness went, and she started to, take up her

household duties again, went so far as to do the household wash-irg, and even H'ashed the blankets herself ; the tumour became

smaller and smaller. The surgeon originally had only given her

three months to live. Fifteen months later I sent her back to him,

still alive, and with only a trace of the tumour left. IJnfortun-ately she drifted away then; she ceased attenditg, and one doesnot know what became of her. Anyway for fifteen months she

never had any pain, her tumour had practically disappeared, andshe considered herself rvell enough to go back to her duties. It is

not a perfect case, as one does not know the end. But one doesknow the H ecla Latta relieved, where lnorphia dicl no,t touch it.

I recall another woman who was a circus rider, in the late

thirties. She came with a stony, hard swelling in her right breast,the size of a child's head. Coninm maculaturn has the power to

produce such hard tumours on the breast, therefore can and does

cure as well. She was given Co'nium, or Hemlock, which is its

popular name; one does not remember in what potencl, but I

think it was in the thirtieth potency; and after four months

treatment, the hard swelling in the right breast had disappeared.Was it only a mastitis ? One had felt tumo'urs of the breast

before, and the hardness o,f an ordinary mastitis \\ias nothing

like this sto,ny hardness of this sr,r'elling. A stony, hard swelling is

usually considered typical of cancer. And yet it disappeared !

She came back a year later, and there had been no return !Then there \\ras a spinster in the early forties, thin and acid;

she was very worried about a swelling in her left breast, the sizeo,f a tangerine orange. It might have been a cyst only; anywayI tried her on Phytolacca, the Poke berry, in the 3oth, and later

on in the gooth and the r,oooth dilutions, and also ordered com-

presses of Phytolacca mother tincture, to be applied externally

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every night. She was under treatment for about six months andthe sr,velling, r,vhether only mastitis or malignant cyst, disappearedcompletely. I saw her five years later, and there had been noreturn.

I had another lady, who was nearer fifty than forty. She alsowas very much scared by u "lump" in her left breast, which wastender, and there were also, enlarged glands in the left axilla.Phytolacca 6 three times a duy, and Phytolacca compresses,removed this lump and the glands and all hcr fears. This is nowfour or five years

"go, and she has not had an o,peration yet !

There was a fourth lady, also unmarried, with a definite lumpin her left breast , attached to' the nipple, which was retracted.There was a chain of glands extendirg to the left axilla and amass of glands palpable in the axilla. She had the usual P hyto-lacca. It has a specific action on the breast; it is an "organremedy," as Burnett calls it-and again six months later, Isearched in vain for any signs of a tumour or glands.

Of course all these cases might have been cases of innocentcysts-non-cancerous gror,vths-I did not incise to find out thenature of the growth-I was co,ntent with the fact that theydisappeared under the action of the indicated remedy. Years agoI had another case, a poor, hard-working wido,w woman, just anoffice cleaner, but such a nice creature) a natural lady. She cameto me with an enormous malignant cancer of her breast. I blamemyself to this duy and canno,t forgive myself for telling her thatshe had cancer. She r,vent to the surgeon, who removed it, butshe would not make an effort and in less than nine months latershe died of recurrence in the sp'ine, in terrible agony. Poor dear,she came too late, and I did not then know enough of the powerof the homaopathic remedy which, when it cannot cure, canand does remo\re pain, so that a patient has a peaceful end.Morphia stupefies and dulls a patient; it is said to be kind togive morphia, but one finds that with our remedies, morphia isnot needed. ft is surprisitg how peaceful a person is underhomcreopathic rnedicines.

Ncw for sclme examples of cures of simple tumours under ourtreatment. Some four years ago a young man turned up withmultiple wens of the scalp. He had them removed by a surgeonon at least two different occasions; but they always came back. Irernoved tlvo growths for him, one the size of a large bean andthe other the size of a walnut; then I gave him Graphites r ffi,

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and he kept on it for some time. He has had no return of the

wens since then. This, of course, might only be a coincidence

again; but it is a well-recognized fact that Graphites acts on wens

and prevents their recurrence.I had a run of Meibomian cysts lately.

'fhese are small cysts

of the upper eyelid, and the usual treatment advised is removal

by the kttif.. A friend in the fifties developed such a cyst in her

left upper eyelid, which came up almost in a night and grew so

rapidly that her left eye was nearly closed up. I advised her to

go and see an eye surgeon about its remo'val, and she threw down

itr. gauntlet to me and asked "Cannot some of your wonderful

t.-.di.r cure this cyst without an operation ?" I hesitated and

admittecl it might be possible, but it would take longer than the

surgeon's treatment. He could do it in a few minutes, while the

homaopathic remedy would require days and weeks. I remem-

bered, rh. had been vaccinated several times, she bore huge ugly

rnarks on her arms, and the last once or twice the vaccination

had not taken. Here was a clue. This might be a, case of vac-

cinosis, which, as Dr. Burnett claimed, often produces cysts as a

late manifestation. It was worth trying anyway to give T htt ja as

an antidote. It was a left-sided cyst, the patient was never at her

best in the early mornitrgs, never woke up until the duy was well

aired; and the history of repeated vaccinations; here was the

three-legged stool, upon which to base the homaopathic pres-

cription. And it worked. Instead of growing bigger and closing up

th; eye co,mpletely, as the cyst had threatened to do, after T huia

3o had been given, it began to, shrink imperceptibly, and without

any pain or discomfort it disappeared without leaving any trace.

It ivis "spurlos versenkt" indeed, swallowed up by the action of

the T hu ji. And this patient in the process of a cure developecl

an irritating eruption on her feet, first on the inside of the

arches o,f the feet, which spread all over the soles, and then this

eruption crept up to the ankles. She was very much tried by this

skin trouble r,r'hich itched and burnt and burnt and itched,

whenever she sat near the fire or took her stockings off, and the

agony of the nights ! The moment the feet got warm, she vvas

wakened by this irritation and had to sit up half the night,

scratchittg her feet. In the end, in order to be comfortable and

get some sleep, she had to hang her feet out of bed, and every

ttigfrt the bed had to be remade in this manner, so that the

sheets and blankets only went as f.ar as the ankles. This cure

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therefore proceeded in the correct homaopathic manner : thecure took place from within outwards; the particular toxin, inthis case the vaccinosis, was eliminated through the skin. Thelady was wise in the lore of Homaop athy, she did no,t apply anyexternal remedies, any lotions or ointments to drive in the exter-nal manifestation of the disease, but asked for a remedy to, curethis dermatitis. I gave Sulphur 30, on : irritation worse heatworse undressing, Setter hanging 1..t out of bed; but there *u,no change; the condition remained the same. On further studyof the symptoms, I realised that I had overlooked certaincharacteristics : the patient carefully remo,ved all fat from themeat, she was touchy and irritable, liked sympathy; this alongwith her great aversion to heat and exha,ustion, and generalaggravation o,f all her sympto,ms from heat, completed the pictureof Pulsatilla, and Puls, in high potencies, 3oth po,tency, andlater in the rnt) cleared up the skin eruption.

The cure took several weeks, as I predicted; but it was rvellworth while, as a surgeon rvould have removed only the foreignbody, the cyst, the external manifestation of the internal cliseui..The actual trouble, the internal disease, which produced the cyst,would still be there. Ho,maopathy remo,ved no,t only the externalmanifestations, but also the internal disease by eliminating it viathe skin; and another remedy-Pulsatilla to wit took up thecure and finished it.

Much about the same time I came across another case ofMeibomian cyst, a woman in the thirties who had this swellingfor months. It did no,t worry her, except for cosmetic reasons.I gave her a note to the Ey. Hospital to have it removed. Some-how she was busy, and she never lvent to the hospital. I wasforced, therefore, to try what medicines could do. There was ahistory of tuberculosis in the family; she was thin, had a ten-dency to colds and coughs, felt the cold very much-therefore Istarted her on Tuberculinum 30 in weekly doses. For the fre-quent nasal catarrhs and slight feverish chills, which troubled herso often, I gave various remedies, as required. Pulsatilta inrepeated doses duritg one feverish attack; Bryonia 3o three timesdaily for a persistent dt'y cough with pain behind the sternumand great thir,st, during a later attack. She told tne she usuallykept this cough all through the winter. Bryonia considerablymodified the bronchial catarrh, but not completely. On furtherenquiry I discovered that she was an inveterate smoker; she

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smoked over forty cigarettes a day and only had onc good tncal,the cigarettes served instead of a meal. Naturally she was suffct'-irg from chronic tobacco poisonitg, which had to be antidoted.

There is one drug which not only antidotes tobacco', but also

stops the craving for it; this is Caladium, a South Americarl

Arum-and on reading up this remedy in the Materia Medica,

I found the mental characteristics of this patient, the forgetful-

ness and the absentmindedness, the things that were put in the

wro,ng places, and were lost; the nervous excitement; always in

a hurry and scurry-everything was done in great haste; she was

always flying about. I chose C aladium 6, and she was asked to

take it every night and morning-and, strange to relate, she tolcl

me a week or two later, she did not enjoy smoking any more, she

could only smoke three or four cigarettes a duy, instead of forty

or fifty. The cysts, there were two small cysts on the upper eyelid,

have disappeared, in time the nervous symptoms ought to dis-appear as well. The cure of these c,ysts has taken about six months

very slow process, perhaps, but the whole patient is beinetreated, and such constitutional treatment is lengthy, sometimes.

Now for case No. 3. This is a middle-aged lady, who was

vaccinated a good many times and had not "taken" the lasttwice. On that indication she was given Thuja 30, and she is

getting rid of her cysts beautifully in record time. She has taken

T hu ja no,w for about six weeks, and one cannot see the swellingany more. So far there have been no untoward symptoms, suchas skin eruptions, or such-like unpleasant things. They do notfollow always after ho'mceopathic medication, and cures takeplace without subsequent external manifestations. The point to

remember is, if and when skin emptions follow while takingremedies, do not suppress these by applying external lotions andointments, but let yo,ur physician kno,w; he will treat this erup-tion with medicines and cure it from within.

These are just a few examples o,f the power of the correctlyindicated remedy over such external manifestations of internaldisease, as tumours. Our literature is full of examples of cures ofcysts and other tumours by means of medicines : Carleton in hisHomuopathy in Medicine and Surgery, gives a few examples.Burnett in various booklets gives more examples. What has beendone in the past, can still be done today. Therefore, as Burnettsays : "Machs nach, und machs besserr" i.e., "Imitation is thebest form of flattery," and "Try to improve on it," if you can.

COLITIS

Meruv years ago I saw a pathetic letter in a well-known medicalmagazine, in which an elderly doctor appealed to his colleaguesfon suggestions how to cure his colitis which had been troublinghim for years and was now incapacitating him entirely. Physi-cian, heal thyself, I thought. What a confession of ignorance ! Icarefully scanned the journal in question for weeks after to, seewhether the poor old doctor got any help. But the answers werefew and far between, and most o'f them very disco,uraging. They\vere mainly from fellow sufferers, who all complained that theyhad tried all and sundry things with but little success. I was srilltoo young and diffident, and to this duy I reproach myself fornot having stretched out a helping hand; for Hommopathy hasmany remedies for colitis, one need never despair. It has been myluck to have had some colitis cases lately, and for the help ofother victims I pass on the glad tidings.

I had watched a poo,r young woman for a year or two, seeinghe r steadily getting thinner and paler; she was under hospitaltreatment, and I could do'nothing. It was a pitiful story, husbandout of work for years, seven children, the man had run out ofbenefit, the whole family on relief, the mother always goingshort, in order to make the food go, further for the little ones,result of this under-feeding was colitis. Hers was a tale of a songof sixpence, or a lack of them.

One duy she was full to, overflowing about her own burden;if she was only well enough to work, to earn a few mo,re shillingsto augment her tiny inco,me; but she could not drag herself aboutat all. She was hurried out of bed every duy of her life at 5o'clock by the urgent call of nature; she had to fly in order toget there in time, and then she passed pints of white jelly. Thiswent on all the morning. So it was not safe for her to go outuntil the afternooil, and the pain was terrific; and then therewas blood as well, basins full, no wonder she was miserable. Andthe medicine the hospital gave her made her so much worse, shemoaned, she suffered agonies after it. The lady-almoner had tried

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to console her by telling her of a friend of hers who also hadco'litis for yeArs, and the only relief she ever had was from somepatent medicine she got from some quack. Fancy an almo,ner ofa hospital so far forgettirg herself as to recommend some quack'srubbish for a patient and to give her doctors away by sayingthat nothing could cure colitis ! A fine state of affairs, md yetnot to be wondered at; for there is nothing in orthodox medicinefor colitis, or there is such a plethora of recommendations. Eachman has a different idea of how to, set about to cure it, that oneknows it has beaten the doctor. One man advises one variety ofinjections, another man somethirg totally different, and thethird sings the praises of yet somethirg quite different, and thehonest doctor shrugs his shoulders and won't advise anything.

Well, to go on with my tale, I turned to the woman andbluntly asked her, "Why go on with the hospital medicine if itdoes not do you any good and makes you so much worse ?" Shewas stumped, she could not answer me, so I rashly offered to cureher, if she would put herself under my care for some time. Shehesitated, so I bribed her with the offer of invalid dinners, andmore for the sake of the free gift of the dinners, she gave in andpromised to swallow my stufr, with very little faith; for, likemost poor people, she had hospitalitis very badly. These people,as a rule, take the word of any young whippersnapper of. a house-surgeon before the advice of an experienced doctor in generalpractice.

I went home, nearly tearing my hair that I had given her myrvord to cllre her, when I saw the manv common* symptoms Ilrad got out of her. On looking them up in the Repertory, itmight have been one of several drugs. The symptoms stronglysuggested Sulphur tc ffie, but Hydrastis had the passing of copious,white slime as rvell, and there were a few other drugs. I plumpedfor Sulphur on this symptom : Rushitg out of bed in the earlymorning. At any rate it would clear the deck, and bring forthother distinctive symptoms, taking into consideration the varietyof strong stuff she had taken frorn the hospital. I gave herSulphur 30, hoping for the best, and also had her weighed. Shehad lost lvell over 2 stones during the last year. No particularinstructions could be given about her diet. It was just a matterof Hobson's choice. She had to eat what she could Set, except in

* N.B.-Common symptoms mean: symptoms comrnon to and alwaysfound in that particular disease.

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the middle of the duy, when I ordered her a milk and egg diet.The results surpassed my wildest hopes. She put on half Lt

pound in the first week, the diarrhaa improved, the slime almostceased at once, and a fortnight later she reported that her bowclsonly moved four times a, day instead of a dozen times. The pain

was greatly relieved, so I left well alone.In six weeks she had gained + pounds. A month later she

presented herself again with ano'ther jubilate ; no diarrh Ev, no

colitis, no pain, and gain of over B pounds. In March, a shoi'tfour months after starting the treatment, there was a slight returnof the bleeding on a normal diet or lack of diet; so a dose of

Sulphur rm. was handed to her. In May, v return of colitis, after'

some teeth had been extracted under a general anrcsthetic-mir:dyou, the teeth were extracted when the diarrhcea had cleared up.

She receive d Sulphur 6 night and morning for a week. The brave

woman had been to work since early January, as soon as she felt

well enough. There was no slackness with her. So you see, a

woman who had been ill for over thirteen months with colitis ancl

hrcmorrhages, and had lost well on 2 stones in that time under

ordinary medical treatrnent, got cured in a few short weeks with-

out any dieting, and without any effort on her part.Another case. Here I did not knor,v even that the lady in ques-

tion had colitis. She was of the old school, who did not mentiort

such an indelicate subject as her internal organs. She had been

in the tropics, had swallowed rnuch quinine, had had dysenteri',

and now suffered from goitre; she also had a great deal of

rheumatism in her wrist and finger joints, for which she came

to ffie , asking for light treatment. I prescribed I'{ atrum mur.

rather vaguely as an antidote to over-doses of quinine, first in the

6th centesimal dilution, later lr,l at. nt?ir. was given in the I zth

centesimal, repeatirg it once a doy for rveeks. Some few months

after she confided in me that she had never expected to get rid

so completely of her rheumatism, and that the colitis she had

been subject to had cleared up miraculously as well. So you see)

you do not need to diagnose all the complaints of a patient, you

only require to know some symptoms, the most important bv

preference, and you can cure him or her of all kinds of things the

treating docto,r knows nothing about at first. Do not run away

with the idea that artificial sunlight treatment had very much to

do with the cure. She only had light about one duy in it fortnight,

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as she lived out of town and could not come up any oftener. No,it was a case of the little sugar pills again.

Case No. g. This was a different type of co,litis, only seen inbabies. It is congen ital, existing from birth, and is caused by anenormous dilation of the colon, the large intestine. This is blownup like a ballooh, and its contents are discharged downwards, asso'on as they enter the small intestines. The miserable infant is ina constant state of running from the bowels, the picture is usually

!!"1 ?f u poor thin child, with wasted extremitieJ and large belly.Nothing can be done for it as rule, f have seen four cases of thisunpleasant disease. The first died in hospital, after a venturesomesurgeon had decided to operate on it ! The second is still in hos-pital and has been there for over three years. The surgeon iswaiting, until it is old enough for him to ope rate, I rrppor.. Hewill remove a few yards of bowel and hopis to settle the cliseasein this fashion. fn the meantime the child is still having diarr-haa, is still having an enormous abdomen, poor little thing. Thethird I lost sight of. Probably it is either dead or leadirg r *ir.r-able existence in some hospital ward, waiting for the r.trg.on'sknife.

When I saw this child first, I had a straight talk with thernother and offered to cure the baby, provided she kept himunder my care for months. He was then four months old, weighedI I pounds, measured r B inches round his navel; he was terriblydistended. He was nearly as broad round his tumm/, as he waslong, all belly ancl nothing else. The moment he started takingthe breast, his bowels started to run. Quite a hydrant of gr..tt-watery fluid shot out of his bowel with a great deal of force. fnorder to save herself fronr being swamped by this fluiC, themother had to tie the baby on the chamber on her lup.

We tried various remedies with little or no success. Still thebowels acted, as soon as the baby was beins fed.

Various friends urged hospital treatment. The mother retainedlrer faith, and her faith was rewarded at last. On October rTththe boy got a dose of Magnesia carbonica 3o. The abdominal cir-cumference was then 19 inches. Much to the mother's joy themotions were slightly more yellow, did not look like frog's spawnany more. Another dose of the same medicine was given at theend of October. Altogether some half dozen doses oi Corbonateof M agnesia \4/ere dispensed until the middle of February, thatis in four months. He has had nothing since, he has never ailed

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anythitrS, there has never been any trouble with his teeth. At

seven months he had his first tooth, at eight months he had six

teeth, at eleven months eight teeth, his height was z B inches. At a

year he weighed 22 pounds, and was the protrd possessor of ten

teeth. And his colitis went gradually. The first time his mo'tions

were yellow and firm, his mo,ther rushed to her neighbours to

tell them the tidings of great joy. That was at seven months.

At thirteen months he is absolutely the picture o,f health,

robust, rsy, full of life, full of mischief, o,f course walking for

weeks, talking-and no co,litis ! Where is the congenital dilatation

of the colon ? Gone where the good niggers go; gone for ever'

never to return. I*possible, You will say : I am ro'mancing, to

put it mildly. Ask the mother, ask the neighbours, ask the nurse

who saw him weekly at the weighing centre, they will tell you the

same story. A few simple powders worked the miracle. And

thanks be to God who opened the eyes of His serva,nt Hahne-

mann to show his successors the way they should go to heal the

sick by such simple means.There are various types of colitis. Some are chronic and long-

starrding, others are very acute and rapidly f.ataI. I am not going

to weary you with scientific descriptions of these varieties, nor

with pathological details; but just dip into my bug of memory

and recall a few incidents. I \vas still quite raw, a young medico

in her first house-surgeon's job, and we had an elderly man in

the ward suffering from ulcerative colitis who was passing quan-

tities of foul pus and blood. The cause of the trouble was un-

known. I cannot recall now, what treatment was given him.

The senior physicians were puzzled, and no,thing could be done .

In due course he was gathered to his ancestors, and the unpleas-

ant duty of performing a post mortem fell to me. I discovered the

site o,f the lesions and the particular variety of the colitis, but

paid for my indiscretion in investigating too closely by being

stricken myself rvith a sharp and painful attack of acute colitis, a

temperature of ro4, acute diarrh &d, passing much blood and

pus.I had to retire to bed and was given by the visiting doctor

some bismuth mixture which duly achieved the desired effect of

producing constipation. Then there wa$ total stopp'age, and that

had to be counteracted by u dose of castor oil. This was the one

and only time in my life I have taken castor oil, and that was

under protest. I remember, as I proved refractory, and the nurses

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could not manage to get the stuff down my throat, the augustmatron herself, aPPearing at my bedside and mixing the f.ataldraught, sandwiched between two layers of black .off.., andstanding over me, until it had gone down. I admitted it was quitetasteless, but the after-effects ! I grumbled : "First you make meconstipated, ancl then yo,u start the diarrhca again. There doesnot seem aJly sense in that treatment." f was ill for about a week,a martyr to, my profession, infected in the course of my duties.Doctors run many risks, and most of them do it gladly andcheerfully for the sake of humanity. I had learned my lesson aswell : never n'ould I treat a patient in the same way as I hadbeen treated.

Many years later I had another attack of colitis. This time itwas the result of eating cherries in Switzerland and drinking ice-cold water straight from the chattering brooklets on long tramps,when overheated and tired. These brooks are sometimes ho,tbedsof infection through pollution fro,m cattle and herdsm an; andyou are warned not to drink the water without boiting it. Thesympto'ms were : yellow, watery stools with flatulence, painless,and coming on worse after eating. When taking into considera-tion the cause of the trouble, namely eatirg fruit, the remedy waspretty plain. It was China. I took China rm., and one dose putme right. There was no, subsequent constipation, no, need fortaking a nauseous draught of castor oil, everything was quitesimple and straightforward, much nicer than the orthodoxprocedure.

A friend who was with me on the same trip also developedcolitis. She did not mention it fon some time, and tried to cuie itherself. She had a good deal of pain, passed quantities of mucousand had many loose motions. She was very much scared by -ydiagnosis of colitis. What a lot there is in a narne ! Everybodytold her of people they had knorvn who had had colitis for manyyears. She got quite a phobia about it and, perhaps as a result ofit, she did not give her symptoms as clearly as usual. Anyway, wehad much trouble in clearing it up. She lost nearly all faith in me.

In the end I had a vaccine made from the secretions, and shewas given graduated doses of homaopathic dilutions of the parti-cular bacillus which caused the colitis, not by the painful methodof injection, but by the mouth. This I find answers very well, inspite of the derogatory remarks of pathologists, who will notadmit that this method of giving vaccines produces any results.

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In this case it did the trick-Bacillus Morgan in the 3othdilution cleared up the co'litis.

A short course was all that was necess ary and then the constitu-tional remedy came in again, and finished the cure. This wasPulsatilla.It was interesting how it worked, once the action of thebacillus was antidoted. It would not touch the colitis before.

Each case presents its own probleffis, and one has to take eachpatient individually. Just because a particular person has beencured by s&y, C hina, from colitis, it does no't follow that eachcase of colitis requires C hina. Far frorn it. There are many differ-ent medicines for colitis. It often requires much study and hoursof work, before the right remedy is discove"red. I have got an oldbook here by my side, which is called Bell on Diarrhea andDysentery. There are r5o pages on diarrh@d, and it describesthe actions of I oB remedies for this bowel complaint. Colitis isonly a co,mparatively recent term, and one of its symptorns isdiarrhca. The older writers were not so wrapped up in patho-logical names like the modern product of medical schools. Well,these lo8 medicines are not by any means all the drugs that youmay have to study, before the right one is found, and you mayeven have to give a remedy quite outside the range of this book.

I shall give you a case to illustrate this. This patient came tome some time ago for rheumatism in her wrists and palms, no'tfor colitis at all. She had lived in the tropics for a number ofyears, she was a very prim and proper lady, and such a thing asco,litis could not be mentioned. She asked for ultra-violet raytreatment for her pains, and had some treatment at irregularintervals, as she could not come up to town very regularly. In theend, as her rheumatism improved only very slowly, I advisedmedicinal treatment, and, on her past medical history, which in-cluded radium treatment for goitre of the neck, and on the sup-position that she had had most likely an overdose of radiumwhich produces rheumatic pains in the hands, I prescribedRadium bromide, r eth centesimal dilution. The effects were quiteastonishing. The rheumatism cleared up remarkably quickly. Shedeclared she had not felt so well for years, and then she let outthat her colitis, which had troubled her for years ever since herstay in India, had disappeared at the same time. So you will seeyou do not need to know all the patholosical ailments r,vhichaffiict a certain patient, if you prescribe on homaopathic princi-ples, which I did in this case. The large doses of radium had

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caused the rheumatism. In antidoting the overdoses of radium bynrinute doses of a well triturated and diluted Radium, the diseasethat was active in the background was cured as well. Verygratifyitg indeed. fhis lady had almo,st identical symptoms withthe lady on page ro4, who \^/as cured with lVatrum muriaticu,m.This antidoted the quinine that had heen given previously, andat the same time deilt with the rest of the various ailm.rir, therheumatism and the colitis. If this N atrum muriaticum had beengiven years ago the goitre would have cleared up as well; one hasseen many cases of goitre cured by medicines alone, not neces-sarily I{ atrum muriaticunt always. Other remedies may beindicated .

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Now another case, where I have rot been so successful. ft wasfull of complications. The lower classes, when asked what a cer-tain relative died of are very fond of mysteriously telling youthat he or she died of "complicatio,ils", which means severalpathological diseases in one person. This was such a case of"complications". The good lady certainly had some crosses tobear. She had lupus of the face and nose and eyes, there weregastritis and colitis and occasional attacks of phlebitis, and shewas cursed with an incurably artistic temperament. She was al-rvays late and behind in everything; full of excuses for her faults,lively and interesting in the evening, but not the slightest bit ofuse in the morning. She was a typical tubercular individual, longand lanky and cadaverous. You wondered how long she *uigoing to last, whether the next spell of cold weath.r *o.rld finishher, as the r,r'inter shrivelled her to nothing. Yet, like a badpenny, she always turned up again and, like Micawber, shealways had some new ideas of makin._{ money and kept you inter-ested in her ideas and plans. Poor thing, what an inheritance.

We tried many things for her various complaints. I gave herLachesis once for her colitis, as the stools were offensive, anddiarrhoea alternated with constipation, and she was worse in thespring and afflicted me badly with her loquacity. Lachesisbrought ottt an alarming attack of purpllra on the lower extremi-ties, first on the left and then on the right l.g, and agonizirgpain. I had to send her to bed for six rveeks, which improved th;general condition. Then she left town on one of her periodic dis-appearing tricks, and I heard nothing of her for months.

On her return she presented the fo,llowirg sympto,ms : diarr-hcea after fruit and coffee, irresistible urging to stool very early

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in the morning; then there were catarrhal symptoms, thick yellorv

mucus in the nose and eyes, with a burnitg feeling in the nose.

So she got Cistus canadensis, a medicine which has all the tuber-

cular eruptions in its make-up. My friend was extremely sensitive

to all medicines. She promptly got another aggravation which

took the form of an acute catarrh with a rise of temperature.

Once more bed for her, but not so long this time. ft will take

time before she is cured of her inherited disease. If only she would

keep under treatment, one could do more for her. Unfortunately

she suffers also from an overdose of pride and a lack of f, s. d.,

a bad combination.N.B.-This lady kept away from me for financial reasons for

trvo years, then tried to get in touch with me H'hile I was awav

on ho,lidays. Not finding ffie, she went to hospital for her latest

complaint : a small tumour of the breast. This I heard about six

months later. Alas, she had so much radium by that time that

nothing could be done for her. She died in hospital.

An old lady rises before my mind's eye. She came to me with

a fractured humerus and a long tale of woe of it having been

badly set in hospital-it was during the war, and the hospitals

were run by dressers, and the civilians were neglected in the

general mad rush of the more serious war casualties. The arm

was not in alignment at all and had to be set all over again. The

plucky old dame was very brave over it too, and the pain was

much relieved by the ho'maopathic pain-killer, Arnic,a. She

fondly imagined she was getting morphia, and I did not en-

lighten her. On getting her better, I discovered that, as a result

of years of suffering fro'm colitis, she had gradually cut down her

diet so that she lived on brown bread and Ivelcon cheese. Fruit,

eggs, vegetables, everything gave her pain and diarrhma. So

gradually I changed the Arnica powders to Sulphur which has

this aversion to all sorts of articles of food strongly marked. Also

this good lady loved arguments. She was fond of philosophical

and metaphysical arguments. So Sulphur was the choice. After

about two months' treatment, I gently suggested, she should try

various other additions to, her menu. She was rather doubtful,

but carried out orders and found to her joy that the colitis had

gone, while the broken arm was mending. "Granny is not

peculiar any more," confided her little grandchild to me.

Then there is that case of rheumatic fever, followed by tuber-

culosis of the peritoneum. She had one foot in the grave, she was

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not even a rvalkitg skeleton, but just a living bag of bones. Onlyher brave smile told you she was still alive, and determined tocarry on in spite of priests, specialists and fidgety relatives. Theterrible weakness rvith the marked emaciation put me on thetrack of the right remedy. It was Seleniuffi, a rare metal, used indictaphones and sensitive plates of electrical burglar alarms,rvhich made a sound healthy woman out of one who was givenup by everybody. She was alive fifteen years later, without a traceof heart disease or any other weakness, and able to work hard ather church work. A living memorial to the power of Hornmo-pathy.

I found out afterwards that she had had bouts of colitis formore than twenty vears previously, unable to eat apples, orangesor lemons, unless she wished to produce days of suffering anddiarrhca. After she got up from her bed of sickness, which sonearly became her deathbed, all signs of or tendency to colitisdisappeared, and she could indulge in fruit, as much as she liked.If she had had S ele nium twenty ye ars before, she would neverhave had that fatal abdominal weakness, which helped in givingher tubercular peritonitis ! If only the general public knew, mdthe medical profession did not scorn Homaopathy, how muchless suffering there would be in this vale of tears !

Now in conclusion, just a few words about how to take a caseof, and ho,w to report oD, a case of colitis. Notice carefully thcnature of the motions, their consistency, their colour; whetherblood, slime or just watery stuff is present; whether they arepainless or not, whether they are scanty or the reverse, containundigested food; involuntary or not, whether odourless or fatid.What ameliorates the stools, warmth or cold, pressure o,r bendingo,ver or stretchirg; what aggravates them, what foods, eating,drinkitrg, whether duy or night, walking or restirg brings on thediarrhca. What are the sensatio'ns before , during and afterstools. Take note of any other symptoms that accompany themotions, restles.qness, flatulence, much thirst, desire for anythingout of the o'rdinary. Is there any vomiting ? The more closely youwatch each attack, and the more detailed the symptoms are, thesooner you will be cured of this chronic and weakening com-plaint, provided you go to a good Hommopath who has studiedhis Materia Medica and knows his druss. And do no,t fall intothe fatal error of cutting down your diet and only living on oneor two foodstuffs. The more you limit vour meals, and the less

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variety you have, the more chronic your co,mplaint wilt become.You will find that after some time on ho,maopathic treatmentyou will be able to eat and digest many things you could not lookat before. But do not expect miracles to happen in a day or two.Give the medicines time to act.

SOME, ACTJTE, CAST.S

( t ) WeKENED by loud ringirg of telephone about 3 a.m. Agitatedvoice at the other end of the wire reportirg feeling extremely ill,with sensation of impending death, shaking and trembling ofmuscles-one cculd he ar the chattering of tlie teeth and theshaking of the telephone-there was heat of the body, rnuch heatof the lower extremities. No cause could be given for this suddenattack, which roused the patient from a deep sleep. Ptomainepoisonitg was considered, but, even though mushrooms had beenpartaken of the previous night, the other members of the familywere not struck down : there was no vomiting or diarrhca. Therenrcdy luy betr,vecn Aconite ancl Arsenic; but Ar:onite won theduy, as one remembered the suddenness of the attack, the factthat the patient was a plethoric, strong, well-developed indivi-dual, somewhat choleric-and the duy before had been cold,dty, and some\ rhat windy. Aconite 30 \{as prescribed over thetelephone, to be taken at I o to I 5 minutes' interval. Result : nofurther disturbance during the night; patient u'ent to sleep inabout trvo hours' time and was able to go to work by B.go in themorniilS, none the wcrse for this unpleasant experience. Patho-logical diagnosis was impossible and unnecessary, as diagnosis ofthe required indicated remedy was immediate, and the diseaseprocess was cut short.

(z) Another nocturnal d€:nouement. Patient suddenly wakenedshortly after midnight by acute abdominal colic and nausea,could hardly get out of bed quick enough in order to get to thelavatory with simultaneous explosion at both ends. Vo'mitirg ofextremely bitter bile and loose, very offensive diarrhcea, : it wasas if a tap was turned oil, and there was no holding back. Thishappened two or three times, accompanied with great prostra-tion, restlessness and anguish, and a feeling as if the end wasnear. Arsenic I'm. given and repeated tn'o or three times at shortintervals, ancl the attack ceased as suddenlv as it came on, thanksto the efficiency of the correctly given medicine. The choice of

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the remedy was made e"Sf, as it was remembered that the pre-vious afternoon at a well-known restaurant, ice-cream and creanlcakes had been on the menu; and diarrhaa after ice-creampoints to, Arsenic. There was no recurrence of this acute gastro-enteritis. The patient wisely starved for twenty-four hours inorder to give the inflamed muco,us membranes of the stomachand intestines a good rest.

(g) Called out before B a.m. Found young woman writhing inbed with acute abdominal colic and stitchins, burning pains; thepains were so severe she u'anted to move, but every movementmade her shriek out; she had to lie still with the knees drawn upto relax the abdominal muscles; she did not want to be touched,every breath she took made her pain worse. She was asking forcold water, which she would gulp dorvn in big mouthfuls. Theywere newly married, and the poor husband stood by holding herhand, absolutely helpless and rryorked up. On examination, onefound the typ,ical signs of an acute appendicitis : the attack hadcome on during the early hours of the night; the temperaturewas r oo

o, pulse r oo- I I o. One rn'ondered about operation andadmittirg the patient to hospital, but decided to give Homao-pathy a chance. The patient's symptoms called f.or Bryonia, andBryonia rffi, given half-hourly relieved so quickly that after tr,vodoses the abdorninal muscles relaxed, and by I I a.m., two hoursafter she had the first dose, she was sound asleep, the temperatureand pulse were normal, and the attack was over. She was seenthe next duy perfectly recovered, huppy and smiling. What agodsend Homaopathy is ! The family and the patient were savedthe agitation of removal to hospital, the anxie,ty of a, more orless serious operation, followed by several weeks of convalescence,let alone the expense of it all. She tvas subsequently given a dietsheet, warned about constipation, forbidden to take irritatinglaxatives, and three years later there had been no return of anyacute abdominal trouble.

(+) A young woman, aged IB, came on November zgrd, I936,co,mplaining of recurrent attacks of gall-bladder colic with jaun-

clice and vomiting : had three attacks since birth of child; attacksevery three to four weeks. Said she had never had a day's illnessuntil she became pregnant : jaundice and sickness developedsome time before the child was born. She was kept in hospital,

as she was so ill; they X-rayed her three times and sent he r out

with the diagnosis, obstruction of gall-bladder, and rvith a very

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strict diet-no [at, no butter, skimmed milk, fish, etc., to whichshe stuck religiously, and yet the attacks recurrecl.

A few more exact symptonrs were elicited, such as : painsrecurred every night, hammering pains right side region of gall-bladder extendirg through the right shoulder-blade, restless withpain, sits bent over with pain, has to hold herself. This suggestedC helidonium; on the other hand there was a craving for fat(Ars., HnF., Ir,/,it. ac., Ittrux n. and Sulph.) and a desire for sweetswhich left Ars., Ir{ux 't). and Sulph.-Sulphur being indicated inthe highest degree. Mentally she was a Sulphur patient tco :intelligent, inquisitive, wanted to know the why and whereforeof everything--a typical know-all, argumentative philosopher.Sulphur go was decided on. A week later the report was : ever somuch better, no further attacks of pain or of jaundice.

On December r r th reported that she could not resist a goodhelping of suet pudding three or four days previously, had somepain and retching fo,r four hours, but attack passed off quicklyand there was no jaundice. Sulphur 6 night and morning pre-scribed, ?s Sulphur 3o did not hold long enough. December z rst :no more pains, no jaundice, feeling ever so, rvell in herself, hasnot felt so rvell for months, has not had any period, since babywas born, wondered if she was pregnant again. Continued SuI-pltur 6 night and mo,rning.

January 4tb, rgZT: very well, no further attacks, has been onordinary diet; the period came on Christmas D^y. Wants toknow what the medicine was, and wonders why the hospitalcoulcl not have given her the same, simple pills that cured herso quickly. A Sulphur patient is frequently an eternal questionmark and wants to probe into everything. Is very grateful forhavins been saved further lengthy examinations and investiga-tions, and a threatened operation, and insists on takirg a furthersupply of pills r,vith her, so that she can keep them by her in caseof another attack.

Coroll ary. One wonders what would happen if the majority ofdoctors were Homceopaths ! Many acute illnesses would be cutshort, there would be less hospital beds required, fewer opera-tions, public money would be saved, and valuable lives would beprolonged. Shall we ever see the duy when Homaopathy ispreached from the house tops and taught in all the me dicalschools ?

E.PILE,PSY CTJRE,D BY LYCOPODIUM

TsnnE are certain diseases for which orthodox medicine has nocure, or perhaps it were better to say that the so-called cure isworse than the disease; or at best one can only say that thetreatment consists in llever giving up takitg the medicine for therest of one's life. An example of such an unfortunate suffererwho is condemned to never-ceasing doses of nauseous draughts isan epileptic. The usual advice of the doctor for an epileptic is towrite a prescription for a brornide rnixture in ever-increasingdoses, and lvhat is even worse, since the curse of the group ofbarbiturate medicines has been discovered, luminal is added tothe bromide and the poor afflicted ones become nothing but a-storehouse of bromides and luminal. f'he fits may become sup-pressed by thcse remedies, or they may not : sometimes theyrecur again and again in spite of bromicle, and eventually thepoor unfortunate one has to be taken into a mental ho,me forepileptics ancl rnust needs cnd his days there, driven there notby the disease, but by the cumulative effects of the bro'mides.And one has heard that since luminal has been given, that theratio of admission to mental homes for epileptics has steadilyrisen. Ary brain po\ver that an epileptic ever possessed is steadilyundermined and destroyed by the bromides and such like medi-cines; and yet this is all that the orthodox can offer in the way ofalleviation. The more's the pity. Can Homceopathy do anybetter ? It could, if it were given the chance : our literature is fullof examples of epilepsy cured by the homceopathic remedy givenaccordirg to, the law of the simillimurn. But, alas our old booksare out of print, and anyway, are not read by the majority; onlya small minority of the rnedical fraternity are willing to studyour system, and apply it.

IJnder this heading cornes a most interesting case of epilepsyr,vhich was cured by a remedy given homceopathically; thatmeans it was prescribed because the symptorns, as given by thepatient, revealed that a certain rnedicine was required and thatmedicine cured, so that no further fits or epile ptic attacks

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occurred. No ttoticc was taken of the attack lter s€, or the typeof convulsion; but the rvhole patient was co,irsiderecl, his psycho-l"gy or mental make-up was carefully studied, and his iemedywas found mainly on his mental characteristics, as Kent, ofAmerica, taught us.

Now for the history. This young man, aged 27, had beensuffering upwards of two years from definite epileptic fits whichused to take him unawares going to work, so that he often foundhimself waking up in the casualty roo,ms of various hospitals. Hewas a very strong-minded young man and had ideas of his own,and one o'f them was : he wished to be treated homeopathically,so he ever steadfastly refused the orthodox draughts offered bythe house surgeons, i" spite of their scorn that u dir.ur. such ashis, such as epilepsy was, could be treated by anything but proper'ntedicine. He lvended his way to the local ho,maopathic hospital,and also tried a hybrid Ho,mreopath with great faith, but littleresponse. One cannot do very good work in a busy out-patients'department, and it takes time to take the history and details ofthe symptoms accordirg to Hahnemann, and as it is impossibleto devote a very long time, such as an hour, to each patient, itfollows that so'me cases are missed, and the results are not alwaysstriking or brilliant. Well, this young man presented the follow-itg s1'mptoms : First seen Muy 2oth, r g35 ; the fits come on afterhaving a good sleep, and at varying intervals, usually has at leastone fit a \t.eek, the longest interval has been thirty days.

The aura is : "head feels tike a balloon and seems to expancl;quiver of light in forehead before attacks"; some of his leilowworkers told him that they have noticed a small red swelling likea blood blister underneath his left eye which gets larger and *or.prominent just before he has an attack.

F eels stupid and dazed after fit, bites tongue, and has been toldthat he is unconscious for ten to twelve minutes. Has a slightheadache and feeling of weakness which wears off gradually.

There is also nausea and desire to vomit after an attack, as heusually swallolvs blood. Has had several attacks durirg his sleep.

In appearance he is well made, fair skinned, greasy, pimpiyand blotchy face; very pale and anrcmic, complains his Jace isvery tender rvhen he shaves, due to the numerous pimples.

His general symptoms were : gets irritable and annoyed andangry, specially when asked questions which he considers silly;prefers his own co,mpatry, is better alone; hates sympathy, hates

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being askecl hon, he is; sullen, then flares up suddenly; likes walk-

irg; walks for miles rvithout speaking to urryb_9dy; somewhat

indifferent to his family; the r,r'eather does not a^ffect him except

in close thundery conditions; has vertigo,, worse rushing about,

swaying from left to right; has been vaccinated once; is worse in

the .afternoon,

if awake; cannot take bananas, but has craving

for apples.Adv-ice given : not to take any stimulants, no coffee, no pepPer-

mint; put on a strict non-meat diet, advised to live only on fruit,

vegetables, raw salads, milk, cheese, eggs.

lI have founcl from experience that epileptic attacks are kept

at bay, if no nteat is taken.)The prescription was : Lyc. 6 nightly, largely given on his

mental symptoms, those of an obstinate person, with a very losi-cal mind, ind so,mewhat contemptuous of those he considers

foo,ls, ),et personally lacking in self-confidence.

There were also the time symptoms, the time aggravation in

the afternoons. At a later sitting it was elicited that the aggrava-

tion was also between + to B a.m. The curious part about this is

that this young man was a night lvorker, and therefore his 4 to

B morning aggravation occurred when he had been up for hours

and really corresponded to the afternoon aggravation of the

ordinary duy worker. An interesting point, which was not

brought out at the first visit.

RJport, June zznd,: no attacks since middle of May, one week

previous io- first visit. Afraid of feelitg better, as it meant in the

past that an attack was due. Stampitg and fidgeting of feet, ?very prominent symptom in the past, much improved. I had

thougtt of Zinc. for this symptoffi, but as he felt better it was

thou[ht best ro leave well alone and continue with Lycopodium.

Creuiirrg of forehead, another Lycopodium symptoffi, well

marked today; this cre asing helps to relieve the pre-ssYre over the

eyes : B.p. rz1-7o--urine dark red co,lour since being treated.

R. Lyr. 12 nightly.

J"iy 27th. I{o nt for nine weeks : is better than he has been

for" eighteen months : feeling of apprehension of legs giving way

much less frequent; the feeling of expansion of head and balloon-

like sensation much improved. Still has feeling of pitching for-

ward ; f.ace not so pimply and less greasy. Continue non-meat

diet; continue Lyt. 12.

September Tth.Eyes do not look so dark and shadowy and are

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of a much deeper blue tint; gained over 2 pounds since Junevisit; has much more self-confidence; can pass places where heused to have attacks without fear; not so restless. I\o attacks forfifteen weeks . Lyt. 30.

October lgth. Lessenirg of all symptoms. Sleeps heavily, hasgiddy feeling from 5 to B a.m. which wears off after a fer,v hours.No attack for tlventy-one weeks : "feels as if he could take trp allhis old pursuits again." Continue treatment as before.

November' 3oth. Had mild "unconscious turn" one mortringafter an upset, and very long and heavy work the previous duy;rested for half an hour and felt well for the next two days; feelsvery rvell now. Weight now almost I I stone. Sleepitg well . Lyt.

3o three doses.

January z1th, I 936. No attack for 5i months except the"slight turn of unconsciousness" he had e arly in Novemben; feelsand looks much better. Lyt. 12 nightly.

March 28th, 1936. Much better; no medicine for f ive or sixweeks; no, epileptic fits. Lyt. 12 night ancl morning.

June 6th, r936. Felt very quarrelsome four weeks ago. Felt asif he could quarrel with a stone. Nose bleeditg rvhile washing hisface one duy which relieved sensation of enlargement of heart;

still on vegetarian diet; occasionally has fish for his rnid-day meal.

Lyt . Tom.Last report by letter on October z 6th "that he is quite rvell

and free fro,m attacks of any kind".This young man had treatment for just over a year; was kept

steadily under the influence of his constitutional remedy whichwas Lycopodium in different po'tencies, and the result was verygratifyirg, as there was no return of major epileptic fits for aperiod of eighteen months.

From the rnoment he was put on his remedy, a general im-provement in his health, gain in weight, arrd improvement in hispsychological make-up was perceptible : what more could youwish for ? Life should be pleasant once more for this young man,still standing on the threshold of his life, and now minus the fearof being bowled over without warnitrg by an epileptic fit. Homoe-opathy can-and does-cure epilepsy and would keep manyyoung people out of the mental homes, if they were treated earlyenough, according to the law of Simillimum.

,j*hlo, claiming that Lycopodium is the cure for epilepsy;

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it \vas t he cure for this patient ; another remedy might be re-quired to produce like satisfactory results in regard to otherepileptics. In every case the individual "make-up" must deter-mine the individual cure.

rHE, CURE, OF RARE SKII\ DISE,ASE

Mns. R., or waking up from the anresthetic after the birth of hersixth child found that her infant aroused unusual interest amongthe members of the hospital staff. ft was examined and re-exam-ined, X-rayed and so forth, shown to all the medical visitors,until she got very much alarmed. Being her sixth infant, shesuffered under no illusions that it was just kindly interest in aparticularly handsome baby, she thought there must be some-thing seriously the matl er. She got no satisfaction, but, like theimportunate rvidow, she persevered, until one of the specialists,annoyed with her insistence, brutally to'ld her the truth, or whathe considered the truth, that her baby had got a certain disease,rare but very fatal, that it meant it would not live more than sixtnonths. She was to keep it in the hospital, until the time of itsdemise.

Mother-like she was most indignant about this, and soughtanother opinion. She was more lucky than she knew, for shestruck a Ho'maopath who cared not a hoot for specialists andtheir opinions, but only delved in thc despised books of otdmasters, men greater than the present generation of bacteriolo-gists, and other ologists who are lost in a welter of names, a mazeof their own making, diagnosis-mad they are) and what is diag-nosis after all but giving a pain or discolour ation a name, themore outlandish the better; and a specialist is a person who, doesresearch work in a special variety of disease, and who can inventa few new names and put new tags to old troubles.

I{.B.-One heard this illuminating story the other duy : adoctor told a friend of mine that he was sending all his cases ofpolio-myelitis (infantile paralysis) to, a certain man, he had donea great deal of research with regard to that disease. The friendasked pertinently : "I)oes he cure this polio-myelitis ?" "Oh, ro,,"was the answer, "it can't be cured."

Well, the indignant mother showed the stricken baby to thisdisciple of Hahnemann, who did not know the wonderful ancl

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fearful name of this rare and extraordinary disease, bttt what slte

did know was how to cure this medical puzzle.The baby did present a weird picture. T'he infant was a deep

purple-blue all over its spine. This purple extended right over the

shoulders and right down the buttocks on to the thighs. The

patch was as hard as a brick. You could make no impression on

this hard, solid substance, and the mo'ther to,ld how rapidly it

had been spreadittg since its birth, three weeks ago. In quite a

short time the ugly deformity of the skin would have, crept all

over the body, and the poor thine would have died of this, as

she would not have been able to breathe through the skin, a very

important function which is essential to life.

The doctor remembered reading the description of a f.atal case

of a snake bite, the Lachesis poison, and it corresponded in

appearance to this rare skin disease. So, very confidently, she

told the harassed mother that somethittg could be done for the

little mite, and gave a dose of Lachesis Tonx. There was no

anxiety in the doctor's mind. The hommopathic law could not be

wrong, and a cure was predicted.The next week the child was seen again-a definite improve-

ment. The disease had been stayed. In three weeks there was no

purple discolouration anywhere. In five weeks you would not

have known that there was anything amiss with the child. It had

grown wonderfully. The mother, a rather stout, elderly PartY,was not able to feed her herself. So she was put on cow's milk

and water and throve. She is now six months, weighs 16 pounds

and is teethitg, as she should.The mother is, woman-like, waiting until the child is over six

months o,ld, and then she intends to show the doctor the live

baby. He will probably say that his diagnosis was wrong, but not

that this particular disease could be cured. The name of this

disease is Sclerema lr{eo-natorum, which translated means hard-

ness of part o,f the skin of babies. Would not the original doctor

make a fuss, if he had managed to, cure this incurable disease !

And all that was needed was one dose of snake poison.

There was no necessity to repeat the dose as the child was

well. fsn't Homaop.athy great, if it can do things like this ? Justthink if instead of a poor child out of a back street of London, it

had been the heir of an old well-known family. And this is not

an iso'lated example of the power of this despised Ho,maopathy,

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btrt it is repeated again and again all over the n,orld, r,vherever

there are followers of this science.A professor of medicine declared the other duy that Homao-

pathy had done nothing for medicine except that one Hommo-

path had invented an instrument for measuring the pulse-rate.

I say to that professor : you have forgotten the first duty of a

doctor is to heal people of their ailments and afflictions. Hornao-

pathy does this in the rnajority of the cases every duy and all

duy, and those unfortunate individuals who are past curing, they

are relieve d of their pain without turning them into' drug-

maniacs, cocaine-fiends, and other horrors. They are given mild,

sleep-producing remedies, which do not lead to suicide, acciden-

tal or otherwise. This is not so spectacular as operations and

examinations with elaborate instruments, but more comfortable

and less harassirg to the patient. Homaopathy is a branch of

medicine, albeit an important one; it sets out to teach the science

of healing accorditg to definite laws.Mind you, in theory it is most important to find out where the

particular lesion is situated; and it is fascinating to look down a

gastroscope and see the ulcers inside a stomach; or through a

cystoscope and see the ulcers or stones inside a bladder; and it is

most helpful to find the foreign body inside the bronchioles of a

lung and hook it out through the bronchoscope. It would be

impossible to find an impacted tooth, or a safety-pin in the lung

without a bronchoscope; but the use of these scientific instru-

ments should be limited to searchitg for foreign bodies, etc.

One's point is "give honour where honour is due"-[s1 do not

unnecessarily subject a patient to the torture of passing such an

instrument as a gastroscope or cystoscope just to satisfy scientific

curiosity, and leave him without any treatment to ease his

sufferitrg, as happens so often.This child whose early medical history is described, was alive

two years afterwards; there was no sign of any pigmentation, no

hardness of the skin. Unfortunately the parents moved out of

the district, and it was lost sight of. Anyway, accorditg to the

textbooks, it could not survive six months after birth, Homao-

pathy proved this prophecy to be wrong.

CI.]RE, OF A BACKWARD CHILI)

Tnn door of my consulting room opened gently, and on liftingmy head I saw a gun pointing at me. I ducked my head and-ilo, it was not somebody after my hard-earned shekels, I saw thegrinning face of a mischievous little i*p of a boy friend of minepeering above the toy gun. I fully entered into the game andpretended to be alarmed, H'hile he made the pretence of firingat me the whole time his mother was talking to me. What adifference in this boy of four, I thought, in the last six months !Then he would hide his face and not look at either friend or foe,a doctor was anathema to him, not a word could be go't out ofhim, certainly I should never have expected him to ask me toplay with him.

His medical history is very interesting. About eighteen monthsago his mother brought him just after an attack of some childishinfectious disease which confined him in a fever hospital for sixmonths. I fancy it was diphtheria fotrlowed by scarlet fever, orthe o,ther way about, no matter. Anyway her own general prac-titioner had alarmed her by enumerating all the evil complica-tions he might have as the result of all this, heart and kidneydisease, and goodness knows rvhat else !

Father was not best pleased about trusting his one and onlyprecious son to the mercy of a mere woman. Mother prevailed,however, and father now sings quite a different song.

I found some unresolved pneumonia, right-sided, and the boywas very disagreeable, would not be examined even, cough worsein the early morning between Z and 5 o'clock. I(ali carbonicurn

30 was given to the child, and some unmedicated tablets to keepfather quiet. Next week saw a great improvement in the physicalcondition of the boy. He had a repeat of the Kali carbonicumtwo or three weeks later, and began to improve visibly, he put onweight, his weight at that time was less than it had been a yearbefore. By the by, I forgot to mention that he had already atten-ded a well-known children's specialist for six months the previous

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summer and had received his pet brand o,f emulsion-gallons ofit-without the slightest effect on his weight or his nerves.

He was z6 pounds in Octo,ber 1933, and gained B pounds inthe followirg six months, not bad for a child who had refused togain anything on malt and cod liver oil emulsion.

But there was no improvement in his nervous condition. Hervould not look at strangers, would not play with other children,a most irritating child to deal with. Psycho-analysis was suggestedby somebody, I think. Probably he would have landed in a childguidance clinic later on. Suddenly on seeing the child after alittle interval it flashed across my mind, of course, he has aBaryta carbonica nature. There was the timidity, the hiding, thefear of strangers. So he was promptly put on a course of Barytacarbonica 6 night and morning for some tveeks. That was aboutfour months ago; then an interval of weeks on nothing, and thena dose of Baryta carbonica rrn. one month ago. No furthermedicine has been required since, he has gained another gpounds, his mentality is that of a normal bqr of four, full of funand mischief, and everybody is pleased.

That is what Homeopathy does in a backrvard child, and thisis not an isolated instance.

He is now four and weighs nearly 3t) pounds, which isexcellent for a, child of his

"Se, and the difference in his

mentality !P.S.-This happened three years ago; one has not seen this

lad for many months; but his mother tells me he ails nothing,and that he gets on lvell at schoo,l and makes many friends.There is no complaint of any shyness or backwardness, ratherthe opposite !

A HOMGOPATHIC JOKE,

Jexn, the first child of her young parents, was very ill. Everybodyin the house was upset. Mother had not had her clothes off for

nights, father telephoned several times a duy to knorv how shewas. The cloctor was perturbed, as the distressing vomiting stillwent oil, in spite of all the various medicines that were tried. The

Great N,{an \\ras called in to give weight to the doctor's op'inion,but he was puzzled and talked learnedly of a germ that mighthave attacked the child. A11 he could suggest was another con-sultation on the followirg duy and removal to the Children'sHospital for further investigatiolt.

A friend of the family who had experienced the wonderfulresults of Hornaopathy, heard of this illness, and discussed it

with a doctor of the new school, who, on hearing the symptoms,"intense craving for cold water with vomiting almost as soon asit had been su'allowed", suggested Phosphorus as the indicated

remedy. But the parents were blind, and certainly would never

hear of any unorthodox treatment.But Miss A. was determined to give Homaopathy a chance.

She found, on arriving at the house, how done-up the mo,therwas, and holv rnuch she wanted recreation. So she sent her outfor an hour's walk, and promised to look after Jane meanwhile.Poor Jane did look ill ! She was lying back in her little cot, allwhite and death-like, and appeared barely conscious, and sor,veak after all that vomiting. For days she had not been able tokeep anything down. Miss A. hesitated. Should she, or should shenot, give the Phosphorus she had brought with her ? The desireto help the child conquered, and the Phosphorus was secretlygiven, before the mother returned home.

The next d^y Miss A. rang up in f"ear and trembling, andenquired how dear little Jane was, to be told joyfully by themother that the darling had quite suddenly taken a turn for thebetter. In f.act rvhen the two doctors had arrived, she had beenplaying very gaily with her toys in her pen and had crowed andlaughed at them, and previously to that she had demanded and

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eaten her usual breakfast and kept it do,wn ! The Great Manwas ve ry astonished at this unexpected sequel, and talkedlearnedly of "a food pocket in the stomach" that had suddenlyemptied itself, and after emptyirg allowed the rest of the foodto be retained. He had to say somethitg-poor man-to coverup his ignorance. The friend, who had secretly performed themiracle by giving the Phosphorus, chuckled quietly to herself,and shared the joke later with the Homaopath-this jokeagainst the old schoo,l prejudice.

You will want to know what happened to little Jane ? Well,she never looked back after this, and had no return of thevomitiilg, and soon got fit and well again.

As one swallow does not make the summer, you will s&y,neither do,es one case prove that this sudden recovery was due tothe Phosphoru,s. It was probably only a coincidence. But if youwatch and have much to do with sick folk, you will frequentlycome across cases of gastritis who show these peculiarities-greatthirst, desire for cold water, constant nausea except when some-thing cold is taken into the stornach, bringing up everything,even the cold water for which there is such a, cravirg, and whichcomes back, as soon as it gets warm in the stomach. Give Phos-phorus in a case like that, and you will cure the sickness veryrapidly. You get such a combination of symptoms in the vomitingof early pregnailcy, and the young mother will be very gratefulto you, if you relieve her of this unpleasant trouble so easily andso quickly with Phosphoru,s. The accompanying symptom in apregnant woman is often : aversion to tea. This clinches it. Phos.will cure.

Many years ago I had a serious case of protracted vomiting ina young baby, when I was acting locum for ano,ther doctor in ababies' ward. Nothitg would help. So in desperation I sent roundsome Phosphorus, and lo and beho'ld ! it did the trick at once.Weeks later the other doctor rang me up and enquired what thepills were which I had left in the ward, and which the nurseshad found so wonderfully efficacious in cases of gastritis. She wasrather incredulous, when I told her it was Phosphorus, as she hadnever heard of it before. Being fairly broad-minded, she con-tinued to give it, because she could not help noticing thedifference in the babies afterwards.

There are many other nredicines for vomititrS, and you willnot cure all cases of vomiting with Phosphorus; only those cases

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which have this craving for cold water, this special great thimtfor quantities of cold water, which eases the nausea at first andthen is all pumped ,p again in a short time. And grown-ups witltell you that they have an aversion and great dislike for tea, eventhough they are very fond of it as a rule.

This attention to even the smallest detail is most important,if you wish to be able to, cure people of their ills accordirg tohomaopathic rule.

RHE,UMATISM

"RHEuMATISM is incurable !" exclaimed a learned Judge theother duy. One wonders what bitter experiences luy behind thissweepitg statement of the legal authority. Was he so far wroilg,after all ?

Shall we examine this conclusion in the light of modern medi-cine ? Rheumatism is a common complaint and is caused byexposure to the elements, rain, wet overhead and underfoot,wind and cold. Men and women followtr-* outdoor occupationsare frequent sufferers of rheumatism in its various manifestations.Policemen on point duty, lorry drivers, agricultural labourers,workmen in the building trade, charwomen, are all equallyliable. Ag. makes very little difference, sex is no bar. The insur-ance societies state that annually many thousand work-hours arelost, many thousands of workmen are crippled and taid aside forweeks, and much money is paid out in sick pay, and industryloses time and monev from this painful, though not necessarilyfatal disease, What has the medical profession done about it ?

Latterly rnuch money has been spent in research, whateverthat may mean; rheumatism clinics have been opened in variousparts of the country; various spas have improved the facilitiesthey provide for treatment. Expensive electrical apparatus hasbeen lnstalled in these clinics, iho,rsands of po.rtrd, hurr. beeninvested in the latest ultra-violet ray lamps; most of them willbe o,ut of date and old-fashioned in a year or two. l\{ercuryvapour lamps and radiant heat lamps were all the rage sometime ago; now it must be infra-red lamps, which are said tocharm away all pain. Even this in some quarters is ultra uires;some other lamps with even shorter rays act more magically-that is : in the imagination of the electrical manufacturers. Thereis a sectio,n of the medical profession who frankly say they knownothing about these lamps and rather doubt their efficacy; theyrvould pin their faith to foam baths. Some of the insurance co,m-panies are sending their cripp,led pensioners to the British spas,such as Bath and other places. There is a multitude of advice.

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"You pays your money, and you takes your choice ." There is, of

course, still the old conservative type of doctor who swears by

heroic doses of salicyclic acid and aspirin; others prefer the

latest product of the large French or British drug-houses, whichhas to be inoculated or injected into the poor unfortunate victim,r,vith sometimes dire results. One remembers one lady who afteran injection of a highly vaunted product of a German firm which

was given for rheumatism of the neck, found herself unexpectedlyin the casualty ward of a General Hospital, and was then told

she had sucldenly fainted in a public vehicle and, as nobody couldbring her rotrnd, she had been taken to the hospital and had lainthere for hours. Proper knock-out drops, were they not ? And

after this ignominious exhibition of herself, was she any better ?

No, she felt much more ill than she had done before, and had to

stay in bed for days and was so shaken by her unpleasant experi-ence, that she could not travel in buses or trams without beingseized with violent tremors. As ordinarily she was a very strong-minded, active person she did not like this state of affairs at all;she had bottles of strong tonic from the doctor which had madeno difference at all to her state, nor to the original rheumatism.And do you know what set her right in a duy or two, that shecould ride in public vehicles, that she could move her neck with-

out excruciating pain? Just a few doses o'f. Lachesis: the ho,mco-

pathic preparation of the South American rattlesnake. It wasgiven to her : as her headaches were Lac hesfs headaches, she hadthe Lachesis heats, her pains were left-sided, and so on; herwhole condition cried out for Lachesfs; and, when she got it,

everything cleared up, even the swelling of the neck muscles

disappeared.What about it, Mv Lord : is rheumatism curable ? This lady,

at any rate, can testify to it, that hers went quickly and withoutleaving any aftermath. Can Homaopathy produce any other wit-nesses ? This positive case may only have been a fluke, a huppy

coincidence, and, being a member of a very exact and meticulousprofession, he n'ill require more evidence, before he will changehis sentence. But we Homaopaths can produce many positiveproofs of cures of rheumatisrn; our literature is full of such curesand, if living rvitnesses are wanted, they can be produced at will.

I recall the case of a sturdy six foot detective inspector, whohad the classical signs of acute rheumatic fever : swollen joints,

acute pains, sour sweats, high temperatures; he was booked for

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at least six weeks in bed, if not more. His temperature camedown in three days, his sweats ceased in less than a lveek, and hewas up and about in a little over three weeks, minus a weakheart, and as strong and hefty as before, and he never had evena grain of salicyclic acid or a single pill of aspirin ! Nor was herubbed with liniment. He was giverr metallic M ercury in minutedoses; in old-school medicine Mercury is reserved for syphiliticcases, but there was no syphilis in this inspector's past history;and yet his symptoms were pathognomonic of. Mercury, at leastto a follower of Hahnemann i md, strangely enough, fuI ercurycured rapidly and so quickly that the policc surgeon who had topay weekly visits in order to, make official reports to, the authori-ties, was astonished himself. The symptoms pointing to M ercurywere as fo,llows : very offensive sweats, the more the patientsweated, the worse he felt, he was so exhausted and so weary, hewas only comfortable in bed, md yet as soon as he got warm inbed, he had to throw off his bedclothes, then he felt cold andhis pains go't worse again and he covered himself again, and soit went on the who,le time. He hated the nights : all his pains, allhis disco'mfort were worse during the night. His tongue wasthickly furred; he presented the picture of a man who had takenan overdose of Mercury, a common enough sight in the venerealwards in the old days. And as I said before , Mercury in smalldoses acted rapidly and cured him.

Acute rheumatic fever takes anything from six to fourtee nweeks or rno're to recover from as a rule; past experience in thewards of the large teaching hospitals has taught one, that thisis so,. And there seems to be very little change in the resultsobtained nowadays with the latest treatment. Patients still reporta stay of many weeks in hospital, if rheumatic feve,r is diagnosed;and to find later that ho'maopathic treatment shortens the courseof. a wearisome and expensive disease, such as rheumatic fever, ismost gratifying. I may be allowed at this point to stress theimportance o{ the financial costs o,f a lengthy illness : it affectsindustry, as it may be a valuable worker who, is laid low; itaffects the insurance societies who have to pay out lilorc money;and it affects the individual worker and his family, &s, when aman is losing his income, the family has to live on the savings, ifzny, or miserably subsist on the srnall sick pay. And it also affectsthe ratepayer's pocket, ?s a bed is being occupied for weeks byone person at a considerable cost. If the time of stay could be

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reduced, there would be an all-round gain. If the medical pro-fession and the hospitals rvould only realize what has been donefor acute diseases under ho,maopathic treatment, the lot of theindividual patient wo,uld be much happ,ier.

I shall be told that I have not proved my case by just quotirgone patient's history. I shall therefore mention another case; shewas a middle-aged woman, the mother of a large family. She hadrheumatic fever, but the minute details of her illness were verydifferent fro,m the case I mentioned previously : there was prac-tically no perspiration, she was not very restless, as movementdefinitely made the pains worse, warmth relieved the acute pains,the warm bed, the warm flannel dressing relieved, the painswere wandering, shifting ones, that is one duy one joint wasaffected, the next duy a totally different joint was more swollenand inflamed, one duy she had diarrhca and that duy her painshardly troubled her. I did not spot the remedy straight away, butafter a few days it became clear to me that Kali bichrom. wasthe corre ct medicine , and after that we had very little trouble; Iremember the nurse was horrified, because I would not allow anyoil of winter green to, be used, o,r any friction with turpentineliniment. In the end she expressed her surprise that the case hadturned out to be such a mild one, it had go,t well so quickly. Icannot recall the length of time this lady was ill; the temperaturecame down in less than a week and she wffi, I fancy, up andabout in well under the six weeks.

These two lvere both severe cases in the beginnirg, and hadtaken a good ho,ld of the respective people, before they cameunder medical care, and rvere on that acco'unt all the greatercredit to homoeopathic treatment.

Now we shall leave the subject of acute rheumatic fever andtackle the more common and more widely spread muscularrheumatism.

There are very few people in our damp Northern atmospherervho have not at some time or other experienced the agonizirgpains of acute lumbago,. The attack lasts, under ordinary treat-ment with aspirin and liniment, about ten to fourteen days; out-wardly there is very little to show to account fon the cripplingeffect lumbago has on its victims, and yet there you are, chainedto your bed, and even the King's ho,rses and the King's mencould not drag you forth again without shrieks of agony, ir spiteof mocking laughter. And what can Homaopathy do for you in

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such humiliating circumstances ? It can be the fairy rvho, r,vithher magic wand, releases you from your prison, so that you areable to join in the midnight dance and revels of hobgoblins,should you so desire. This is no't an exaggeration nor a figureof speech, but hard fact. Listen to this : A young office workerhad to travel on top of an open bus on a teemirg mo,rning; shegot well drenched and could not shed her wet garments untilthe evening, with the result that the next morning she was fixedin bed with a full-blown attack of lumbago. The fo'llowirg detailslvere elicited : pain on first beginnitg to move and easier aftercontinued motion, restlessness which compelled her to move allthe time, this combined with the cause of the attack, namely therain and the wetting, pointed to Rhus. tox., and Rhus tox.cleared up this annoyirg complaint so that she could get back towork within twenty-four hours. This is not an isolated case, butI have repeated this rapid cure again and again with the sameremedy.

So,metimes Bryonia is required in altemation with Rhus tox.In a Bryonia case you would find the Bryoni,a characteristics mostoutstanding, such as : the pain comes on as soon as he moves,and any movement is so excruciating that he has to lie absolutelystill; coughing and sneezing is agonizhg, but firm pressure issoothing and grateful. Wherever you find rheumatism whether inthe back muscles or in the neck or in the limbs, provided thesedetails are present, Bryonia will cure. I remember a case in ayoung wo,man where Bryonia and Rhus tox. were tried with verylittle benefit; then it was no,ticed that the patient was rathertearful, that she had to move, kept on moving to get any ease;here Puls. was prescribed, and within less than twenty-four hours,this young woman was out of her bed and anxious to return toher job. Bry., Puls. and Rhus tox. are very much alike; but oneremedy will not do for ano,ther. For the best and quickest resultsget to know the characteristics of each o,ne.

After two years of drought, England is once more living up toits reputation of grey, weeping skies and damp muddy roads,and we shall get again our usual crop of rheumatism and allieddiseases due to exposure to wet, though there is another class ofcase which is more affected by heat and dty atmosphere. I recallthe pathetic wail of a man in one of the daily papers in which hecondemns the incompetence of the medical profession for beirg

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unable to deal successftrlly with such common or garden com-plaints as rheumatism, and "can somebody tell me," he plain-tively writes, "*hy rheumatism, which is a wet weather diseffe,comes on with me during the height of summer. If it is a bril-liantly warnl cloudless day, I am crippled, and, moreover, whenI get into bed and get comfortable and hot, then my enemy,rheumatism, begins to plague ffie, and doctors only shrug theirshoulders and do nothing." One wished that this poor man couldhave been introduced to Homceopathy. He describes the painswhich a,re found under Sulphur, and which Sulphur alone wouldrapidly remove. A Sulphur patient revels in damp and cold, heis limber and active in the damp, but during a dry, warm, sum-rnery spell, he gets the knees of a worn-out cabhorse, painfullyand stififly he clrags along. He hates the, nights, for the warmth ofthe bed heats up his muscles so that they burn and ache, and hehas to search for the cool places in the bed or hang his feet out,and how e asily he gets cured, once he gets under the rightr6gime ! It rnay be just muscular rheumatism or myalgia orrheumatic fever, or even that dreaded rheumatoid arthritis,where the deeper structures of the joints are affected. If you findthese symptoms, Sulphur will help : quickly in muscular rheu-matism and more slowly in rheumatic fever; you have to repeatthe doses more often in an acute inflammatory condition, andwhere there are organic changes, such as you find in arthritis,you will have to wait some time, before the recuperative forces ofnature are able to undo the damage that has been done andlo,osen up the stiffened joints.

There lvas a lady who came some time ago from the West ofE,ngland with the tag "Arthritis." She had been crippled witharthritis of the left knee for ov er a year or more, and was unableto do much or enjoy life with her husband. Her sister had beencured very quickly by Homaopathy some years previously ofher rheumatic knee by alternative doses of Rhus. t ox. andBryonia; a very favourite prescription of mine, it the symptomsagree, and one has the authority of Hahnemann for this alter-nation. Well, this good lady arrived, her left knee was stiff, shecould not bend it at all and had to sit very gingerly on the ecigeof the chair with her les out in front of her. There was tighten-irg of the hamstring muscles at the back of the knee, but nodefinite involvement of the knee joint; she could not kneel, andwalking \^/as a great trial to her. The symptoms again worked

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out to Rhus. tox. and Rhus. tox.6 in pel lets, three t imes dai ly,was prescribed. I did not see her again for six months or so. Forsome reason or another she had been unable to come up to townto report, but had continued with the pellets, and when she paidthe second visit, she was able to bend the knee, and there wasonly a slight tenseness of the muscles behind the knee, and thenat the third visit she only came to report complete recovery : shewas as spry as ever she had been before, and marvelled only hor,va few small pellets could make such a difference, when all theother remeclies she had tried, had proved a failure. Yes, Rltus.tox. is a miracle worker in rheumatic troubles, if you have Rhus.tox. symptoms, the exposure to damp, the stiffness and pain onfirst beginnirg to move, which will disapp ear on continuedmotion.

There is fibrositis, a new favourite diagnosis of the present-duy ,iEsculapius, which is only another name for the old-fashioned rheumatism. You feel the hard nodules in the musclesr.vhich are so painful to touch and movement, and which takesuch ages to remove with massage and hot air baths and radiantheat, etc. By the by, don't put a Sulphur patient into hot airbaths or give him radiant heat, and if by chance he is a pepperyold colonel, you will hear about it, if you start up his pains withthe radiant heat or the infra red rays. Give the patient with thefibrotic nodules the remedy which is indicated by his symptoms,and if they are only recent nodules, they will melt away in a veryshort time; if they are old and thick, they will take longer, butthey will go, too. I am not decrying such auxiliary rneasures asinfra red lamps or Turkish baths or radiant heat. They are verysoothing and comforting and often very helpful, and sometirncsrvhen the indicated homceopathic medicine takes a long time toAct, which in a long-standing chronic case is often the case, allthese necess ary accessory measures Are of use, as the individualpatient feels sornethirg is being done, and the psychologicaleffect of coloured lamps and infra red rays is not to be despised.

I remember a case f.ar advanced with rheumatoid arthritis,there were the typical pear-shaped sr,vellings of the rvrists anciankles : she was not able to raise her arms in order to attend tcrher hair even; she was brought at first in a bath chair, as shccould not walk. I Con't know how many years she had been likeit. She had radiant heat and infra red heat; faithfully she cametr,vice a rveek for two years, and gradually the distorted joints

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took on a more normal appearance, the movements bccamefreer and easier. She could do her own hair, she discarcled herbath chair and came tripping along on her own feet. Sire wasable to discard various artificial appliances to correct flat foot,and she was very pleased with herself. But I was not; the mornentshe gave up her light treatment, back would come the pains, andthe muscles would tighten up again. I bethought myself, whynot try homaopathic medication ? I know some of the homao-pathic writers do not hold out much hope in advanced cases ofcrippling arthritis, but why not try ? I took some of the symp-to,ms, and I found that she was a gentle, timid soul, easily movedto tears, affected by warrn weathe r, even though she likedwarmth for her local aches and pains; she disliked fat food, andPulsatilla was so plainly her constitutional remedy that she wasgiven Pulsatillo. And after three months on Pulsatilla cantinuouswith artificial sunlight treatment, the progress was not onlymore rapid, but it was maintained without the aid of furtherlight baths. This is over two years ago. Nobody would knownowad&ys, looking at her jo,ints, that she had arthritis, she hashad no return of pain or crippling stiffness and deformity, andhas had no treatment during all this time. And she continueswell, so the report goes. The remarkable point was that threemonths' homceopathic treatment equalled in her case nearly oneyear's treatment without it. That is : her progress durirg the lastthree months under Homaopathy was very much quicker thanduring the twelve months on light treatment alone, and, more-over, it was maintained. A ve ry satisfactory result from thepatient's point of view.

Some tirne ago it was mentioned in the Press that bee-keepersvery rarely suffered from rheumatism, and the bright suggestionwas made that people should allow themselves to be stung inorder to cure their rheumatism. A very painful and unpleasantprocedure ! The homaopaths have known of the action of thebee poison in rheumatism for over I oo years, ever since Hahne-mann's days in the eighteenth century. But it only acts in acertain type of rheumatism, and only through the homcopathicway of takirg a case and finding the symptoms can you cure thekind of rheumatism which yields to Apis, the poison of the honeybee, and you do not often come across Apis symptoms, except inacute inflammation of the joints. I remcmber the case of a nursewho presented such an Apis picture : inflammation of the right

Rhett ,mat isnz r37knee joint which looked red, felt hot to, touch and pitted onpressure. There was redema all round; she complained of stingingand burning pains in the jo,ints which were worse in the warmbed, worse hot application, worse sitting near the warm stove :all this nearly drove her crazy. I found her sitting up in a, coldroom with the knee exposed to the cold air, and a basin of coldrvater near her, which she applied to her knee to cool the burningand stinging in the joints. I soon saw that this could only be AFit,and Apis rffi, four-hourly, \,vas prescribed, and the relief wasinstantaneous almost. In twenty-four hours the swelling had gonedo'urn, and a week later the patierrt was back at work.

It is no use applying the bee po,ison to all and sundry rheu-rnatic patients, you would have many failures; it would only dogocrd in those cases which present the typica\ Apis symptcrns :the srvelling, cdema, redness, tenderness to touch, the burning,stinging pains r,l'hich are made worse by heat. Take each case ofrheumatism individually, and find out the particulars, the aggra-vations, the ameliorations of the pains, the cause of the rheurna-tism, and you will get cures in almost every case.

I remember a young woman, she had been to the winter-sports and calne back crippled with rheumatism. I found outthat she had become hot skating, it was brilliant sunshine, shehad thrown off some of her clothes, suddenly a cold wind haclcome uP, the sun had gone behind clouds, and it had begun tosno'w. The result of the sudden change from hot to, a cold tem-perature and the exposure to cold, damp snow plus the sup-pressed perspiration, had led to rheumatism of the neck musclesand back. This was a typical Dulcam,ara case, and Dulcernerctspeedily put her right. You will get Dulcan?ara rheumatism fre-cluently in climates where ther e are great differences in tempera-ture lvithin trn'enty-four hours, and which in E,ngland occursmore in the autumn, when warm sunny days are followed bycold nights, especially if there is a cold danrp atmosphere, and ifheavy rain follows on a warm duy.

I refflember another patient, she was an elderly woman whosuffered a great deal frotn stiffness in the neck and pains in thehead, shootiilS, tearing pains, so, that she had to wrap up herneck and head to get relief. These pains were always worse incold wet weather. I tried Dulcamara with very little benefit. Onfurther enquiry she volunteered the information that she always

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knew when there was thunder about, for the pains became un-

bearable before a thunder storm. Rhododendron has such an

aggravation before thunder storms, and Rhod. rm., four-hourly,

for a week, cleared up the pains and the stiffness which had

lasted for many weeks."Stif neck" is quite a common rheumatic affection: Rhus.

tox. utta Bryonia often help, but there is another remedy which

has a particular relationship to, the muscles of the nape o'f th9

neck, ind that is the American plant, Cimicifuga: a Black

Cohosh. Shalt we quo,te a case illustrating the effect this medicine

has ? A stout middle-aged wo,man was seen at the Dispensary :

her head was drawn back, and she could not turn it either to the

right or the left. She could not lie on her back, because the muscles

of the back were tightly contracted, neither could she lie on her

side, because the muscles jumped and jerked. She was extremely

depressed and gloomy about her condition, nothing could do her

any good, she could not get well, she was done. It was no use

trying. She was persuaded to try the Cimicifuga; she was not

told, of course, what she had. She thought she got some kind of

aspirin; but it was Cimicif uga in a very minute dosage-in f.act

Cimicifuga 30, three-hourly, and the next time she was seen all

the depression and gloom had gone; the muscles of the nape of

the neck were soft and flexible. She could turn her head, which-

ever way she wished, and all this in less than forty-eight hours.

And for a wonder she was quite grateful ! The late Dr. Clarke

speaks very highty of the action of the resinoid M acrotin found

in this plant. He usually used the M acrotin in the 3x trituration

for lumbago and stiff neck. One has no,t so far had occasion to

use this resinoid, but should a case corne along with the Cimici-

frgo particulars, and which does not respond to the higher

potencies, one rvould then apply the M acrotin o'n Dr. Clarke's

authority and expect a cure.*

A variety of remedies have been mentioned which cure differ-

ent forms of rheumatism; but there are many more medicines

which cure this disease ho'maopathically. Their number, in-

deed, is very extensive : Kent's Repertory gives I I B different

names under the rubric "Rheumatism"; so' you see ho'mcopathic

* Macrotin gx. 2 doses in 12 hours, completely cured for me a case

of right-sided sciatica of several weeks' standing, without any subsequent

return of the agonising Pains.

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doctors are well supplied with drugs which can and do cure this

painful disease under its various manifestations.Ask an allopathic doctor, what is his stand-by in rheumatism

or rheumatic fever or even rheumatoid arthritis, he will tell you

without hesitating a moment that Salicylic acid or one of its salts

are absolutely specific : they are Salicylate of Soda, Salicine,

aspirin which is Acetyl-salicylic acid-Salol or Pheno'I, Salicy-

late-all are used more or less without discrimination. Some

favour one medicine, some a,no,ther. Salicylic acid is found in the

bark and leaves of willows; and it only became known round

about 1876 in Europe that South African natives used infusion

of willow-tips for clearing up rheumatic disorders. Medical

science does not tike infusions, but prefers to extract what is

called the active principles, which are too, co'ncentrated in their

actions and too violent. One cannot deny that the salicylates

frequently remove the pains, but as such enorrno'us doses are

used, they are followed by all kinds of after results : dizziness,

giddiness, delirium and gastric upsets and prostration. But the

medico is pleased, the pains have gone and the patient is most

times so weak he can't object; and then he is dosed up with

noxious bitter tonics and it takes him weeks to get over the

combined effects of the disease and the overdosing.

I remember one such tireso,me case o'f rheumatic fever which

occurred in the early days of my medical career, while actitg as

an assistant to a very good general practitioner. I had to treat

the patients allopathically and this particular case gave me many

anxious hours; even though I had the moral support of my chief

and several specialists. This good lady developed acute rheumatic

fever during the war as a result of exposure during a snowy

wintry spell. She was a very headstrong, self-willed party and

liked to order her own treatment, and thought she knew all about

how to cure herself . She ruled the whole house frorn her bedside

with an iron hand, maids, nurses, specialists, and poor me had no

chance to stand up against her. The acute rheumatic fever was

followed by pericarditis, endocarditis, double pleurisy with effu-

sion; the temperature became swinging, going up to between

ro3o and ro+" every night and droppitg down to 99" every

morning. So it went ofl, week after week, month after month;

several times she nearly died, but still she hung on to' life with a

grim persistence.In the end, after a nine months' illness, she was a pathetic

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sight, "sans teeth, sans hairr" it had all fallen out; so r,r,eak shecould not even raise a finger to fasten a button, she \^/as nothingbut a skeleton, the skin \^/as just hanging loose over her bones,and there was an enormous collection of fluid in her abdomen,a tubercular peritonitis. I have often noticed since that tuber-culosis is closely related to rheumatism; and tubercular familiesproduce more cases of rheumatism than other families who arenot tubercular. 'fhe

specialists shrugged their shoulders, nothingmore could be done. She had had all the different varieties ofsalicylates in srnall and ever'-incre asing dosages, and officialmedicine was stumped. She received the last rites of her faith anclarvaited the end, quite indomitable, even to the last.

She had no longer got sufficient strength to question the treat-ment she was receivins, so Tuberculinum 30, one dose, wasgiven, the next duy the temperature only went up to lor.Boinstead of ro+' ; I was on the right track, I thought, at last.Then the Repertory was made use of and after rnuch searchirga remedy was found which corresponded to her sympto,ms, mindYou, not her physiological or pathological state, no notice wastaken of diagnosis, her rheum atic fever, her past rheumatic-tubercular condition, the tubercular peritonitis" But I only con-sidered and looked up her little idiosyncrasies, the extreme weak-ness followitg prolonged fever, the great ancl excessive generalemaciation, the witherirrg of the limbs, the falling out of thehair, her inability to take lemonade and any stimuiants such asrvines and alcohol in any form, which was follolved by diar-rhoea; also diarrhaa after any fruit, diarrh e2 after tea, so weakeven after first r,rraking up after a long sleep, extreme sensitivenessto the slightest draught even to a current of \Ararm air. All thiswas found in the R"epertory and pointed to Selenium. I had notgct Sel,enium, I had not even heard of it before; but accordirgto the tenets of the homaopathic larvs, S eleniurn was indicatecl,and therefore a hurried visit r,vas made to the chemist, and Selen.30 \Aras obtained as a last resource.

I hardly dared to hope for any results, the patient was reallv

loo far gone. The next duy arrived; I almost hesitated to ring th;bell; the nurse opened the door.

"Doctor, what was in that powder you gave her yesterdaymornin$, the temperature rvent down to normal and remainednormal during the last twenty-four hours, the first time for ninemonths ?"

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And from that moment everything changed with a dramaticsuddenness, the temperature never went up again, the hecticflush disappeared fro'm her face, the white smooth hairless scalpbegan to cover itself with hair again, the limbs filled out, thefluid in the abdomen became gradually less and less; the diar-rhaa disappeared. The single dose of S elenium 30 remainedactive for eight weeks, then three more doses were given in quicksuccession, and no further medicine was required; no 1s6iss-nothing. Three months after the first dose was given, she startedto rvalk again and five months afterwards her weight was upagain to' B stones and she was discharged as cured and sent tothe seaside. Ten years later she \^ras still alive and active; norecurrence of her disease, heart and lungs and abdomen weresound.

That was the effect of a very few powders of the indicatedhomceopathic remedy-prescribed accorditg to the law that likecures like-and such unexpected cures arry good Ho,mceopathwho fo,llows closely in the footsteps of the great master Hahne-mann, can produce by the score.

These cures are not accidental, one can explain the reason.There is no need to, boast. The same thing has been done eversince Hahnemann discovered the laws of Homaopathy, the booksare full of such cures and they happen every duy in the practicesof the many thousands of hornaopathic practitioners all over thervorld. These cures are not huppy flukes, but hard facts.

A very similar case, though not so extreme, occurred duringthis last year. An elderly lady developed a mysterious illness aftereXpo,SUre to wet, and the temperature would not go down forweeks. She was sent into hospital and there all kinds of tests weremade : blood tests, serum tests, bismuth meals, X-rays, etc., andno cause could be found for this mysterio,us pyrexia. There wasno T.8., no cancer, but the temperature remained up for fivemonths, and the patient became weaker and weaker, andemaciated more and more.

There was diarrh &d, pain after drinking tea, inability to takefruit, so once more Selenium 30 was prescribed, with the samehuppy effects; it had to be repeated more frequently and wasthen followed by Sulphur. The temperature dropped and themysterious narneless disease cleared up. On closer enquiry I dis-covered she had had many rhettmatic pains in the arms,shoulders and neck, for several months in the beginnirg; but

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nobody had paid much attention to this, so I can only presumethat this was a kind of low rheumatic fever, which cleared upafter the appropriate remedies.

Now we shall leave the acute type of rheumatic fever and goback to the more chronic kind of muscular rheumatism. I recallto mind an o'ld age pensioner who brought her little grandchildto the dispensary for heart trouble. The o,Id granny herself wasvery feeble and for two weeks she did not turn up, then she madeanother visit and arrived in a very pitiable condition. She camecrawling along, holding on to chairs and tables, her body bentdouble like the letter Z; the pain was all in the sacrum and wentinto the hips and was ago'nizitg when she walked, almost impos-sible for hbr to rise after sitting. I recogn ized, the remedy, andthe old lady received ttsculus hippocastanum-horse-chestnut inthe 6th potency, four-hourly. The next week she came in full ofsrniles, her poor old back had straightened itself, she walkederect, pains and stiffness practically gone. Isn't it worth while toget results like this, and that in a lady nearly eighty years of age !

"Have I proved my case, My Lord ? that rheumatism in itsvarious fclrms is curable by Homreopathy"; and I have onlymentioned a few cases, picked out at random.

Intricate law cases are argued before the judge in chambers;and the various counsels produce many tomes, many books toprove the various points that are raised; the Hommopaths alsohave many learned books, many learned authorities from whomthey quote, who for nearly 2oo years now have shown how tocure rheumatism and many o'ther diseases. There is ProfessorKent who has written many big books, there is old Dr. JohnClarke who gives many examples in his writings of how to setabout to cure rheumatism, and gives case after case of cures.There is Carrol Dunham, there is Professor Farringdon, there isBoenninghausen; there are American and German and Frenchand British writers, old and long dead authorities, who still live intheir books. There are men who are alive today and daily repro*duce the same cures in rheumatism as the o,ld masters : "MyLord, Hornaopathy is alive, very much alive, and it can curerheumatism," and it has cured it in the past, cures it now andwill cure it in the future.

A CURE, OF RHE,TJMATOID ARTHRITIS

Ar the beginnirg of January, a poor woman came to me about

her little boy *ho was suffering from a minor complaint,_ the

real patient was herself . She came hobbling in, almost bent

double, leaning on tlt'o sticks."Hullo," I exclaimed, "what have you been doing to your-

self ?" "Oh," she answered, "I have got rheumatoid arthritis and

the d.octor at the hospital says I can't be cured, it can only be

relieved with electrical treatment. As I have no time to sit and

wait at hospital, I must just get on as best I can."

I p.rr,rided her to let me have a look at the offenditg

*.*6.r. On nncovering the legs I found both knees very much

swollen. It took three extensions of the hands to, encircle each

knee, they looked red and inflamed and stiff; in my opinion there

was certainly serious trouble in both the joints. On the other

hand, I ,Cid not agree with the prognosis, that is, with the

conclusion the hospital specialist had drawn.

I asked a few apparently senseless questions, which yielded

the followirg result : the trouble started five months ago in her

right knee, it then attacked the left knee as well; she always felt

much worse in the afternoon. She was of a yielding nature,

rather timid; and I had enough to r,vork upon. The veriest tyro

in Homaopathy could guess the right remedy; so' one dose of

Lycopodium in the 3oth potency was given to her and she was

instructed to present herself again in a week's time. There was no

attempt madi to diet her. I was promising myself to go into that

more fully at the next visit.Several weeks passe d; no Mrs. B. arrived ! After six weeks she

was seen accidentally by one of the staff, minus her two sticks.

"Well, no need to, ask you how you arer" said the sister, "yot

look heaps better, and walking quite upright, too, without any

support.'i "Oh," Mrs. B. replied, "I can walk all right, but I

have still got some pain in the knees." She was then persuaded to

present herself for a further examination, r,vhen I found her

kn..r had almost returned to normal size; there was no redness

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just a little stiffness, and some slight locking of the joint. She \{iasthen reassured that everything was going on as well as, and betterthan, I had expected and that, as a matter of fact, she was r,t'ellon the road to recovery, and she was then given another dose ofLycopodium 30.

Poor thing, she was rather oventrhelmed. "But the doctor atthe hospital said I could never get better," she kept on repeatine,"he could do nothing more for me !" So there she ir, after onlysix weeks, rvalking upright without any artificial aid whatever,only a little pain, and some locking of the joints.

In a few more weeks this also should be gone. Of course, therewas as yet no bony deformity, the arthritis being o{ cornp&r&,-tively recent origin, yet, let it be emphasized-she was supposedto be incurable !

Notwithstanding, within two days of starting the homaopathictreatment, she had thrown away her sticks, and could walkupright without extraneous assistance.

Surely this "gives one to thinkr" and the student of homao-pathic medicine will find it well worth while to study a systemthat will operate effectively, as in this case, without any efforton the patient's part, and with so' little outward show.

HOMG,OPATI_IY II\i FIRST AID

"AccIDENTS rvill happen in the best regulated families," anclhowever careful one is, falls and tumbles occur, and seriousinjuries may come to any one of us.

The value of homaopathic medication can be tried out byanyone who is rvondering whether there is anything in the claimof this school that "Like cltres Like."

The orthodox recommendation is : to apply iodine to theinjured skin to prevent any bacterial infection; if there is seriousinjury and shock, morphia is given hypodermicatly to kill pain,and prevent and counteract shock. Now, Homaopathy presentsyou with a more pleasant alternative, and you do, not need towait for morphia; and even the iodine will not be required, foriodine may cause serious burns to sensitive skins, as has beenseen again and again.

The homaopathic way is to apply Arnica locally in a weak,watery solution, and also to give it internally, by the mouth. Ifyou are doubtful of its action, try it in the 3rd decimal and youH'ill be agreeably surprised how quickly it relieves the pain ineven serious injuries, and how it counters shock. Many patientsthought they were being given morphia, when all they had wasArnica in some potency or other, which acted rapidly and bene-ficently, without leaving any drug action behind, or any cravingfor further doses of morphia. Many cases of morphia drug-addicts ca,n be traced back to the first dose which a kindly doctorgave to soo,the and palliate pain.

"ArnicAr" many sceptics have said-and u,i,ll, sa"y-c'is only anold wives' simple, and you might just as rvell apply cold water tothe injured surface : it will do as much qood; there is no, medici-nal action in Arnic a; the relief is entirely due to the cold water ! "

Leave the sceptics to their unbelief ! I have known, andexperienced and seen, in others and myself, the marvellous pain-killing effects of Arnica in injuries.

An old age pensioner, after having spent a long evening in theloca,l public house with his cronies, staggered homewards at

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closing time, singing gaily and raucously at the top of his voice.Malignant fate overtook him; he quarrelled with the kerb andkissed the ground and was brought home unconscious with agashed head. Whether the unconsciousness was due to the fumesof alcohol, or due to concussion, f could not clecide, offhand, butknowing how quarrelsome the inebriated can be, I let H'ell alone;cleaned rp his head, found the extent of the damage, and put in

four stitches without waking him. The son, an ambulance driver,was anxious to take the gay reprobate to the infirmary, in casethere was more serious itjrry to the brain. N,Ieanwhile, I gave a

dose of Arnica, and while still discussitg the advisability of

fetching the ambulance with the family, the old gentleman

stirred-it was less than five minutes after the dose-opened oneeye, and enquired what had happened to him. The dose ofArnica had done what the washing, the stitching up and dressinghis wound, and putting him to bed had failed to do-hadwakened and roused him. As his pulse was stronger and moreregular he was left in the boso'm of his family and ordere d Arnic ain four-hourly doses.

By next morning a very chastened convalescent old man wasready to receive me; nothitg further of importance occurred ; in

a ferv days the stitches were removed and his recovery wascomp,lete.

Now for some personal experiences.While making a rockery a stone rolled off the home-made

trolley and fell or, and crushed, o,ne of my fingers. The agonywas intense; cold sweat ran down my f.ace; one felt, and looked,green-and I was never nearer fainting than on this occasion !

Cold tap water was run on the hand, but the pain was as severeas before; then the hand was put in cold Arnica lotion, andArnica 30 was taken. Within an incredibly short time relief setin; the cold sweat and the pain disappeared. f put on an Arnica

dressing and to,ok Arnica 30 four-hourly, and had no furtheranxiety or pain, though the nail turned black and blue andremained so for days, and I did not even lose the nail !

Another time I slipped and knocked my head against a stonewall. I saw stars, and was dazed for an appreciable time. Three-

quarters of an hour elapsed before I reached home and by thattime a beautiful, egg-shaped swelling with enlarged veins over ithad come up on my temple, and there was an abrasion of the

skin as n'ell. and my head ached furiouslv ! No iodine was

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applied locally; I only took some Arnica, internally, and withgreat interest watched the swelling on my forehead recede !Within an hour it had gone, and by next mornitg there was noteven a bruise left. f was thankful to be spared the embarrassmentof walking about r,r'ith a blackened eye and forehead !

Arnica has justified its use in all kinds of accidents; fractures,dislocations and motor-car accidents, and it never lets one down;the relief is instantaneous. One wo'rd of warnitg, though; do notuse pure Arnica locallv. ft causes an eruption of the skin, anunpleasant dermatitis, almost like erysipelas : use a diluted solutionof Arnica for bruises, and if there is any skin abrasior, use asolution o,f the herb C alendula to dress the wound. It acts morepleasantly and safely than stronger antiseptics.

During the War, Dr. Petrie Hoyle, that keen fighter for recog-nition of the value of Homaopathy, used Calendula almostexclusively for dressing the most filthy wounds in his front-linehospital, and he was commended by a visiting Staff Officer forthe clean state of the patients' wounds; the absence of smell inthe wards, and received much praise on the rapid evacuation andcure of all kinds of septic wounds among the soldiers. They hadno fatal cases of gas gangrene among the patients, I believe.

And all this was due to the action of the C alendula lotion, andthe indicated homaopathic remedies, and no other antisepticswere used in suppurating wounds.

These cures are another proof of the validity of the law of"similarsr" eVerr in surgery.

A friend of Hahnemann, a Dr. Franz, took repeated doses oftincture of C alendula o fficinalis (Marigold). These doses ofCalendulo so affected an old scar left by u wound that it be'camevery raw and sore, and threatened to suppurate; he also beganto shiver and developed a temperature. Therefore, Dr. Franzconcluded that as C alendula evidently caused suppuration inrvounds, if taken in large doses, it should, ir small doses, curesuppuration in wounds !

Hence Dr. Hoyle's success, many years later, in the FrenchWar Hospital.

Indeed, I have used C alendula lotion when suturing a lacer-ated perineum in maternity cases, and I have not regretted it. Ihave never seen a cleaner wound surface or more rapid healingin a torn perineum than those which were treated with C alen-dula sprays, and it was much more efficacious, and more rapid,

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than the strongest antiseptic, nor was there any rise in tempera-ture after !

I should rely on Calendula and Arnica and Hypericunt lotionin treatment of injuries, and wounds and suppurations in prefer-ence to all the mercurial and carbolic lo'tions and other antisep-tics o'f the orthodox !

Mr. Carletor, an American surgeon, who wrote an excellent,practical work on Ilomeopathy in Medicine and Surger.y is myauthority for the use of C alendula in obste tric and gynecologicalpractice. He used it freely in all his gynecological cases, and neverexpected-and never had-any sepsis, followirg this treatment.It is a relief to be able to use such mild lotions as C alendul,a andHypericum; they do not play such havoc with o,ne's hands, as dothe mercurial lotions, or the various brands of lysol.

All first aid equipment should contain Arnica tincture, andlotion, and Hypericum for external use ; Arnica in pilule formfor shock and collapse; Calendula lotion, applied pure, stopssevere hremorrhage very rapidly,

"s a veterinary nurse taught ffie,

who used it neat for applying to four days old puppies, afterdocking their tails.

Antisepsis is overrated; use Asepsis, and strict cleanliness, andthe tinctures and lotions made from various herbs, and alwayswith the relative medicinal remedy, Arnica, and so forth; and soprove beyond doubt, the soundness of the homaopathic principle-6'Like cures Like."

FIRST AID II{ PRACTICE,

As the years roll on and rvith greater experience, I am moreconvinced than ever of the importance of the prevention ofdisease, particularly in accidents and injuries. The period ofincapacity can be shortened and unnecessary suffering can beavoided by the proper knowledge and application of the homao-pathic remedies, not forgettirg the well-tried aseptic herballotions, tinctures and ointments.

Some personal experiences will not come amiss here. Do notforget that for many years, although I used homaopathic medi-cines internally as rvell as extern aIIy in my private practice in mycapacity of medical officer at a public health institution, I feltthat the nursing staff would be too biassed to carry out myinstructions if I strayed from the orthodox paths. I had learntearly in my professional life that sisters and nurses only carry outthe directions of the visiting doctors which coincided with theirown ideas, and unless a surgeon o,r a physician personally saw toit, half the instructions would not be carried out. Then this lastwar came along, and with it a change of staff. At first my workat the Dispensary was shattered, wiped out by the stroke of apen. . . . The youngsters, almost over night were removed intoso-called safe areas-safe on paper-thus breaking up the sanc-tity of the hotne and destroying all family ties, by scattering thevarious members of a family from the crowded cities, over theunwillitg and reluctant countryside. Doctors, lawyers and otherprofessional men found themselves without work at one go. Aminimum of sAne parents preferred to keep their children withthem, defying the instructions of autocratic officialdom, prefer-ring the threats of hypothetical bo,mbs to, separation from theirloved ones. In due course the atr raids materialised, only theGerman airmen did not have the politeness to enquire at White-hall first, which were reception areas or safe areas in their opinionand which were danger zones; but scattered their dangerousmissiles wherevcr they chose, on lonely country as well as onclosely-populated cities. After a few months of interregnum of

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closure of schools, the Education authorities were forced to

re-open some of them, zs well as some of the health clinics, for

the sake of the children left behind whowere running wild in the

streets. The staff at the clinic now consisted of one trained nurse

and the caretaker. Both were exceedingly valuable, the sister

proved herself a tower of strength, willing and only too anxiousto carry out to the letter the orders given. For almost the first

time I found willing co-operation. We scrapped the antisep'tics;decided for a time to use nothing but herbal tinctures, lo'tions and

ointments and to give homaopathic remedies a thorough trial.

If the herbal lotions did not work better than the orthodox

methods, we could always go back to the old ways; but we never

had to,. In four-and-a-half years we have proved to our satis-

faction that the homaopathic methods work more rapidly, are

cleaner, less painful and, in short, more satisfactory than the

recognized orthodox ones. I have proved by a vast number o'f

cases that this is So'. Different types of cases which used to take

weeks to get well under orthodox antiseptic treatment, recovered

in just as many days as weeks previously. The staff increased

naturally when more children returned to their old haunts; and

the work has grown and the success of the homaopathic remedies

has converted a number of nurses trained in orthodox hospitals.

The children on the whole must like our ways, they come

regularly and are most disappo,inted if they do not get their little

sweet pills, and they bring whole gangs of their friends and play-

mates for treatment. The experiment has been successful, as I

thought it rvould be.Arnica in potency is always given as soon as a child comes in

suffering from the effects of an injury, fall, knock, cut, etc.' even

concussion, sprains, strains, bruising and so on, whether the case

is slight or severe. They all get their dose of. Arnica, which may

have to be repeated half-hourly in a severe case, o'r only o'ne dose

is given in 2+ hours for a slight injury. ft always works astound-

ingly quickly in reducing the swellings, relie,ving the pain and

shortening the period of shock and unconsciousness. Arnica,

mother tincture r in z5-that is at the rate of one drop in 25

drops of water, is applied as an external dressing, provided there

is no break in the skin, no abrasion, otherwise the Arnica will be

absorbed and there is danger of Arnica poisonitg, which re-

sembles erysipelas. Therefore in the cases where the skin is

broken, Calendula in the same strength as the Arnica is used as

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a routine measure and wonderfully quickly it acts, more rapidlythan the hottest fomentation used to. It prevents sepsis, why itdoes it I do not know yet; the fact remains it does, unless aninterfering parent, possessed of a little knowledge of first aid,chooses to remove the dressing applied at the clinic and uses hisown favourite antiseptic; then we would find that the woundstarted to fester. I had to make myself very unpleasant to someof this tribe of "know-alls" in order to stop their game of inter-fering with our treatment. Let me repeat it, no iodine, Do lyso,l orsimilar antiseptic, no boracic fomentations were used any more atthe clinic; and, of course, ho, anti-tetanus injections were given,only plain, usually unboiled water and a few drops of eitherArnica, H yPericum or C alen,dula tincture were used. If thewound or sore was already septic, Hypericum tincture in thesame strength was ordered.

The district we worked in was heavily bombed, there wasmuch rubble, much debris lying about, dirty bricks and sto,nesand dust were scattered everylvhere, hence an excellent breedingground for septic germs and tetanus one would think. And yetno tetanus, no sepsis followed our revolutionary method whichis absolutely opposed to the modern strict antiseptic treatment.These wide open spaces full of mounds of bricks, stones andtwisted iron, full of gaping bomb holes, were exciting play-grounds for our young hopefuls, who imitated their fathers andelder brothers by fighting mock battles; only instead of guns,they used bricks and stones; injuries, often serious ones, are theresults. And yet no sepsis followed if they came to us at once; andeven infected wounds healed quickly under Hypericum locallycombined with H ypericum in potency. Even injuries, of or nearthe eys, contusio,ns, etc., healed rapidly in a few days withArnic a internally and C alendula externally, although the eyesmight be completely closed and the conjunctiva bloodshot at first;and so f.ar I have not had any cases of cataract followittgthese injuries. One of my workers who also attended a near-by eye hospital told me that in similar cases treated there, cat-aract w"as a frequent complication. f have seen and so have mynurses, enorrnous swellings disapp ear within a few hours, as ifthey had never existed and without leaving a trace, after Arnicainternally and externally. If that happens where you can see theswelling and feel it on the o'uter surfaces of the body, is it not

S1lhfr, the same happens near an eyeball o,r inside the eye

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cavities ? Anyway, the f.act remains, no cataract has developed inthese cases and I have seen the same youngstem and watched theeyes for months.

I regret we have no facilities fo,r treating fractures, as there isno X-ray apparatus which is necessary to confirm the diagnosis.These cases are sent to hospital after a preliminary do'se of. Arnic afor relief of pain and shock. In private work after an X-ray istaken, Arnica is given whenever required, the effusion of serumis reduced by a gentle soap and water massage, then a fixingapparatus, splint and bandage are applied after the fracture hasbeen reduced and with daily light superficial massage and laterultra-violet treatment, passive and active movements of themuscles, the fracture heals rap'idly. There is no reactionary rise oftemperature or rise in the pulse rate at all, the patient sleeps lvell,the pain and shock is quickly relieved by repeated doses ofArnica. Symqhytum. in potency is prescribed after a few days inorder to hasten the knitting together of the bone. In a multiplefracture of the olecranum where this treatment was applied, I gotpractically a full return of mobility at the injured elbow-joint info,ur weeks, as confirmed by a surgeon who was called for con-sultatior, and no morphia was needed throughout.

Sprains and dislocations were treated with Arnica locally afterthey were reduced by gentle soap and water massage repeateddaily. Arnica in potency was given as required, four-hourly atfirst, and I have seen a moderately severe sprained ankle withlacerated ligaments, recover completely in a week so that thepatient was able to walk without any limp or disfiguring thick-ened ankle joint. Sometimes in milder cases the recovery wasmore rapid. If the bruising and contusion continued after the firstduy or two, the Arnica was discontinued and Ledum in poteilcl,four-hourly, was given, and then the swelling and discolorationdisappeared in a few days; 3-5 days were the maximum. A childjumped from a movirg train on to the platforrn and injured oneof the small bones of the foot. On X-ray examination three dayslater, a ftacture was found. The parents gave Arnica at once andapp,lied Arnica externally. The local doctor disapproved stronglyand ordered lead lotion instead. I was rung up and orderedLedum 6 at four-hourly intervals. When the dressing was takenoff two days later by the local G.P., at the X-ray examination,she was surprised to find that there was no swelling and no dis-coloration of the foot and hardly any pain. All the comment the

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doctor made was : "You are lucky to get over it so rapidly."A young farmer put the prongs of the pitchfork he used while

manuring through the soft parts of his eyebrow and almostthrough his nose, he was badly shocked and almost blinded bythe swelling. Arnica was given by his relatives at once. Ringingme up, I suggested Ledum in potency and Calendula lotion ex-ternally and ordered him to bed. He was well in 36 hours; thewound healed rvithout any signs of sepsis, no tetanus followed,even though the fork was highly polluted with manure and thelock-jaw germs are usually found in highly manured soil. The oldhomaopaths advise d Ledurn as a prophylactic against lock-jurno;most doctors, even homaopaths, seem to prefer antitetanicserums in order to, make doubly sure. Why ? Have faith in yourpotencies and in your medicines; the germs are not any morepotent now than they were 6o or 7 o >rears ago, and the law ho,ldsgcod even against the most dreaded germs to this duy.

If there is laceration of the superficial structures, torn skin anddeep abrasions, even extendirg into the subcutaneous tissues,after giving two or three doses of Arnic u to combat the pre-liminary shock, give Hypericum r in ro, later r in 25 as anexternal dressirg. Do not remove that dressing, but keep moisten-itg it rvith the diluted Hypericum rvhenever it appears dry to thetouch. You will find very little or no sepsis; the surroundinginflammation will clear up in a few hours and the lacerated partwill heal up in a few days. I have seen rapid cure of severe andextensive lacerations under Hyper,icum, while under the recog-nised methods of orthodox surgical treatment which I used tofollow religiously for years, the severe injuries would take weeksto heal.

I am told on good authority that the Russian military surgeonsin their campaigns Llse ho,mceopathic methods almost exclusivelyin their advanced dressing stations, and their recovery rate isextraordinarily high, the patients return to the front line in a fewdays instead of weeks. The homaopathic treatment is so' simple,so painless and the results are so rapid; more rapid than themodern sulphonamide and penicillin methods without any fear ofserious constitutional disturbances or side effects coming on later.Some surgeons are already beginnitg to warn against the exclu-sive use of Sulphonamide pastes and ointments on septic wounds.And how soon will Penicillin be superseded ?

For burns, too, homaopathic methods work exceedingly well.

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In burns of the end degree, give (J rtic a (J rens I zth or 3othpotency for the acute, agonisitg pain. I have timed it several

times by u watch and found that the pain will be relieved in just

about seven minutes without fail, repeat the dose, if it be re-

quired, whenever the pain returns, it may be in half an hour,

one hour or two-four hours; or less often as required. It always

acts rapidly. Locally apply [Irtica [Jrens (r in Io or I in z5 as in

all herbal lotions) on gauze dressings covering the who,le burnt

area; whenever the dressing appears to be dry, moisten the gauze

with (Jrtica (Jrens lotion and cover it up with cotton wool and

bandage. The patient, whenever the dressing gets uncomfortable,

can usually be trusted to apply the lotion himself. Shock and

pain disappear quickly and the healing takes place in a few days,

even in extensive burns.In burns of the Brd degree, I have used Causticum 6, tzth or

3oth potency, repeated as before whenever the pain retr:rns. The

relief o,f the pain was rapid, usually within seven-ten minutes.

External\y, Hypericunr lotion (r in ro) should be applied and the

dressing should not be disturbed unnecessarily, but should be

moi-qtened whenever it gets dry. The healing takes place in a

much shorter time than under the orthodox methods. I saw a boy

a year or two 3go, who had an extensive 3rd degree burn of his

right l.g and abdomen, the right 1.g was treated by his parents

with tannic acid jelly, beforc my arrival; the abdominal burn was

overlooked. I applied Hypericum lo'tion to it; left the Tannic

Acid alone until the next duy, when it was changed to' Hyperi-

cum. The abdominal burn was almost healed up in 2+ hours,

the burn on the thigh took four weeks I C austicum 30 relieved

the pain and turned a shriekins, yelling child into a quiet one;

in under ten minutes he was asleep. But the Tannic Acid made

an awful mess of that right l.g. The simple herbal lotions work

much more efficaciously and with less pain and suffering.

In the most severe burns, especially when there is infection of

the kidnevs with dysuria, pain on passing water and passage of

blood frorn the bladder and severe constitutional disturbances,

Cantharis 6, 12, or 30, will deal with it effectively. It will heal

up the local burn in a much shorter time than orthodox treat-

ment can accomplish and the renal and bladder infection will be

cured in a short time . You see, C ant haris is ho'maopathic or

similar to this condition, that is, it produces a similar condition,

disturbance of the genito-urinary tract with pain and frequency

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of micturition with passage of blood in the normal healthyprover, and therefore it cures this same condition if it is found inthe sick. Tty and prove it yourself. I have found it was the truthand nothing but the truth.

Many cases of death after severe and extensive burns withconstitutional shock could be saved, if these simple rules werecarried out.

A nursing sister burnt her face and eyes severely when a bottleof pure lysol exploded. Hypericum dressings were applied locallyand C austicum 3o given hourly, less often when improvement setsin. She was back at her job in the surgery the next duy withhardly any marks showing on her face except a slight redness;the eye showed no, ill effects at all.

f recall a sinrilar case seen many years go, when a colleague ofmine burnt her right arrn with pure lysol. She was badly shocked,and was off duty for nearly a fortnight, and the a,rm was badlyscarred. Naturally, I was alarmed when I saw the condition ofthe Sister in the Dispensary staff, as I remembered vividly theother case; my case treated homaopathically got well in a fewhours, even though it affected a much more vital part (eyes andface), while the other case treated by a well-known hospital sur-geon, took rveeks. Such is the difference between homaopathyand orthodox methods.

Let me impress upon you that I only teach and preach whatI have seen myself ; it is not hearsay, nor is it exaggeration, butplain unvarnished truth and clinical proof.

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GIJNPOWDE,R AS A PROPHYLAXIS OF' SE,PSIS

Dn. CTARxE rvrote a monograph on Gunpowder in r9r5, fromrvhich the follorvirg is an extract :

Black gunpowder was discovered by the Alchemist Friar,Roger Bacon, and like a good many other things, it can cure asH'ell as kill.

It comprises Sulphur, Carbon and Nitre, or Saltpetre, and thecombination of these three powerful, well-known hommopathicmedicines is also a remedy of great potency. It was well knownby the North American Indians as a remedy in po,isonous snakebites.

Our soldiers in the past century knew of it, and used it as aremedy for certain kinds of suppuration; they took it crude,mixed in hot water in teaspoonful doses.

The story goes that a Rector in East Anglia no,ticed that at thetime of paritg the sheep's feet, when suffering from foot-rot, hisshepherds were always infecte d with blood-poisonirg; the armbecame swollen and black from the fingertips to the armpits,except in the case of one shepherd, who always escaped by dosirghimself with black gunpowder mixed with cheese and eaten as asandwich. The Rector was so struck with this preventive of theserious blood-poisonitg which usually ended the career of a shep-herd, so that he had to look around for another job-that hepassed on the knorvledge he had garnered; and blood-poisonirgdisappeared in his village.

Thtrs the great indication for the use of gunpowder is in blood-poisoning. It acts very well in minutes doses, in the homaopathicattenuations. It does not exert a direct germ-killing action; it actsby increasing the normal antiseptic action of the blood, and byraising the immunity. In health, living blood destroys gerrns; andthe reason that in epidemics some persons escape the infection isthat their blood is equal to destroying the germs which attackthem. As has been explained previously, each substance, as itundergoes the process of graduated attenuation of the homao-pathic pharmaceutical process, loses its physical properties and

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gains, on the other hand, the property of becomirg radio-active.These attenuated substances are raised to a higher pitch of vibra-tion and pass on these vibrations to the individuals who takethem. Radium itself has the power of making each substancewhich comes in contact with its rays, radiant, and so the vibra-tions of the radio-active emanations are passed on.

Antiseptics are somewhat dangerous things; for if you want tokill the germs present in a wound, it is often necess ary to applyantiseptics in such strength that the living cells of the body aredarnaged, and the vitality of the part is lowered. This is thereason for the slow healing of some r,vounds under the most care-ful antiseptic treatrnent. And therefore, it is of much importanceto raise the vitality and resistance of the blood to the invadingarrny of hostile gerrns. This can best be done by the action of theindicated remedy, and in cases of blood-poisonitg, septic cuts andsores, septic eruptions, etc., it is the black Gunpowder in the 3rddecimal attenuation, that is it tutu 6 grain doses, in rvhich it acts

promptly and painlessly.For local dressings, after carefully cleansirg the injured cir

septic parts with boiled water and clean sterilized lint, use tinc-ture of Calendula or Common Marigo,ld-or tincture of WitchHazel (Hamamelis), in the proportion of one teaspoonful to thehalf-pint.

Dr. Clarke proved black gunpowder on himself by takitg it in

the 2x potency ; that is in r*o grain doses, and produced severefacial herpes involvirg the right side of the nose, and the righteyebrow. So if you see a case of herpes of right eyebrow andnose, Gunpowder in minute attenuations (g* or 6t) rvill cure itfor certain.

Gunpowder 3x is a perfectly safe domestic rem.dy, and shouldbe better known among the public. Abrasions from falls wouldnot turn septic, if cleansed carefully with boiled water and atablet of" Gunpow'der was given three or four times a day for twoor three days. It is thus a prophylactic, and r,r'ill give protectionagainst harmful germs; this method is much better than burningthe skin with the strong tincture of iodine. fn poisoned gnat bites,too, Gunpowder gx three times a duy rapidly cures the sup-puration.

Thus far Dr. Clarke :In the many minor septic conditions and sores of school-

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children, I have used it with most gratifyirg results, acting onDr. Clarke's advice.

I do not believe Gunpowder has ever had a proving in awoman, but this curious effect of Gunpowder was related by awoman patient; she was taking Gunpowder gx on the advice ofa homaopathic friend, I presume, for some minor septic condi-tion, ancl she noticed thai it increased the menstrual flow. Theperiod was naturally scanty, and inclined to be painful; the freerthe flow, the less pain there was. Since her discovery she has beentaking Gunpowder Zx regularly, at the beginnirg of each period,and it invariably makes it flow more freely. The character of theperiod is very scanty; it begins, then stops for twelve hours, afterwhich it comes on again; the Gunpowder 3"r prevents this twelve-hourly intermission and increases the total quantity. She usuallytakes it at two-hourly intervals, and increases the interval asimprovement takes place.

One was interested to get the followirg information : thatamong the working-class people, Gunpowder was well knownand freely used as an abortifacient, naturally in crude doses; so itevidently has an expelling influence on the uterine mucousmembrane.

Black Gunpowder when taken internally in small doses do'esnot explode in the body, so there is no danger of any urrtowardaction.

A METHOD OF TREATME,NT OF }'IJR.IJNCTJLOSIS

A BorL or furuncle is a circumscribed form of necrosis of a smallportion of skin and subcutaneous tissue round an inflamed hairfollicle. ft conlmences as a hard, tender, inflamed area with acentral necrotic core rvhich eventually bursts, discharging pus andsubsequently the core or slough comes away; they are mostfrequently found under the axillae, or the forearffis, glutei, faceand chin and nape of the neck, where the friction of the collarmay pro,long the infection. Boils are frequently multiple andrelapse is common. A carbuncle is a more extensive infective gan-grene of the sub'cutaneous tissues due to a local invasion with pyo-genic organisms, the commonest being the Staphylococcus aureus.

It begins as a hard, painful infiltration of the tissues, the skinover it becomes red and dusky. It spre ads peripherally, thebrawny centre portions become soft and boggy, and the skinshows signs of yielding to the pressure within. Vesicles and thenpustules form on the surface which burst in turns, and ashy greysloughs are discharged. Fresh openings develop gradually, theapertures enlarge and rlln into one another, producing a centralirregular opening at the bottom of which lies the necrotic tissue.A large slough forms which gradually separates, leaving a cleargranulating ulcer. Carbuncles most frequently occur on the shoul-ders, back, nates, and in rnen at the nape of the neck and thebeard region.

There is sometimes considerable constitutional disturbance ofan asthenic type; carbuncles on the f ace and upper lip especiallymay be follo,rved bv pyremia or septicremia, due to infectivethrombosis of the cavernous sinus.

The infective organisms are Staphylococcus aureus, in rarecases S. albus, constipation, renal disease and diabetes predisposeto the infection.

TnnerMENT

During the last three years I have followed a new line of treat-ment, at first tentatively, combined with the usual surgical

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procedure, boric fomentation; and when pus has formed, an inci-sion was made. Very soon I found that nothing beyond a dry dress-irg was required; and the furuncuiosis was rapidly aborted withthe aid of a practically unknown remedy, derived from a Cubanspider. This spider, Mygale Cubensis or Cuban Tarentula, alsofound in Texas or South Carolin&, is fairly large as spidersgo, witha hairy, dark brown body. Its bite is painless, the person is notsensible of it until the next duy, when an inflamed pimple isfound, surrounded by a scarlet areola; from the pimple to, someother part of the body a red erysipelatous line is seen, markingthe line folloH'ed by the spider over the skin a-fter biting. Thispimple swells, the inflamed areola spreads, chills and fever set inwith copious srveat and sometimes also retention of urine; thepimple becomes a hard, large, exceedingly painful abscess, endingwith necrosis of the integuments over it and having several smallopenings, discharging a thick sanious matter containing pieces ofnecrosed cellular tissue; fascias and tendons; the openings bygrowing run into one another, forming a large cavity. At thisperiod the fever takes on the iutermittent type with eveningexacerbations. In delicate children, the bite may prove f.atal, butthe majority recover in from three to six weeks.

The bite of this spider is followed by u carbuncle with more orless severe constitutional disturbances. Therefore accordirg to theschool of thought which bases its treatment on the Paracelsianaxiom, "Similia Similibus Curentur," or "like cures likes," thesubstance which produced a carbuncle in the healthy individualshould heal boils or carbuncles, produced by other means, pro-vided you give it in small enough doses. Ocular proof of thistheory of curing diseases by the like substances is not always easyto find; the symptoms produced by u drug are usually subjectiveand individual, and could be styled imagin ary and thereforelaughed out of court. But a boil followirg the bite of the Cubanspider is objective, and if the T,arentula given in small enoughdoses removes or cures a boil, this would be a positive proof ofthe correctness of the theory : "like cures like".

The followirg clinical cases may serve to illustrate this :(t) Miss A.8., a young nursery governes, aged 2r, otherwise

healthy, presented a boil, size of a tangerine orange, in her leftantecubital fossa, which had been slowly coming up for severaldays. It was fluctuating, an incision was made under local EthylChloride, and a fomentation applied. Tarentula cubensis 3oth

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dilution was given at once, to be repeated three times a day. Shelived some distance out of town and could not pay another visitfor four days, I was somewhat doubtful what the outcome wouldbe. The result was far beyond my expectations. In the specifiedtime she returned and showed an arm entirely healed, the incisionscar had healed, as if by first intention. There was no other signof the boil, no discharge, no inflammation. She reported she feltbetter within ten minutes of leaving the surgery, and the dis-charge had dried up within less than twenty-four hours. She wasmistress in a residential school, and there had been at that timescveral cases of furunculosis among the inmates; but none of theothers had cleared up so rapidly.

(z) A boy, aged r o years, was seen with a large carbuncle onhis scrotum; he was almost bent double with the pain and drag-ging sensation in the scrotal sac and unable to sit down. Theswelling was very hard, very tender and red; there was no flucttt-ation, and no testicles could be made out. His parents had al-ready applied hot fomentations for days with little relief. Hewas ordered hot dry dressings, a suspensory bandage and T aren-tula cubenses four-hourly. The nurlse reported two days later thatthe swelling irr the scrotum had disappeared : no sign of anycarbuncle was discovered.

(g) Another boy, aged 12 years, had a boil, the size of a golfball, in the abdominal wall over the left hypochondrium : fluctu-ation was present; but encouraged by the two previous cases,just mentioned, no surgery was attempted, dry dressings onlywere applied, and T'arentula given three times a duy; two dayslater the boil had disappeared without causing any constitutionaldisturbance.

(+) A young woman, aged 25 vears, developed several boilsduring the puerperium in the ward, and was discharged afterthree weeks with a high temperature, etc., ir the care of a dis-trict nurse, owing to the shortage of beds. Tempera,ture ro2.Bo,large boil in the right forearm, another formirg on the left arm;looked very ill. T arentula cub., four-hourly. Temperaturedropped in twenty-four hours and the furuncles retrogressed asusual under the remedy in two or three days; and four days afterbeing first seen, she felt well enough to' go for convalescence tothe seaside; rvhen seen a month later, she had completelyrecovered.

(S) \,V.8., a young commercial traveller, aged e6 years, was

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seriously incomrnoded by recurrent boils for three months. Hehad eighteen boils during that time and considered going in fora course of vaccine. Persuaded to try Tarentula cubensis, threetimes a doy instead. Reported a week later, the last and largestboil had dried up H'ithin forty-eight hours of startirg treatment;and there was no further relapse for two years afterwards.

(6) A woman in the late forties developed a large, extremelypainful boil in the groin and another on the perineum : whetherthis was a Bartholinian abscess or no't, was never clearly madeout, as she would not be examined at the time. Tarentula cu,b.,four-hourly; thirty-six hours later the boil on the perineumopened suddenly and discharged freely; three days afterwardsboth boils had disappeared.

Altogether this series included forty-eight cases of carbunclesand boils of varying sizes and in different positions : and all agesand both sexes with the followitg results :

Three cases were incised with Ethyl Chloride loc ally, one boilwas on the left forearm, one was on the nape of the neck, and thethird, a large axillary boil; they cleared up and were absolutelydty in trvo or three days with ten to twelve doses of Tarentulacubensis. No packing was required, no antiseptic dressings wereused. The other forty-five cases had no surgical treatment; onedepended entirely on the action of the T arentula with mild localtreatment, such as dry hot dressings. Invariably the result was :the inflammation subsided, and the bo,il or carbuncle abortedwithin forty-eight hours; a very large one might take three days.There was never any sign of septic infection left, no hardenirgof the tissues remained.

Three cases had some slight recurrence within the month;these were cases of furuncles of the nape of the neck, caused byacne, tu'o were in young women, and the third, a lad of r 3 yearsof age. The T arentula was repeated, and the condition cleared upfinally. The advantages of this method of treatment are psycho-logical as well as economic : there is no surgical treatment, andtherefore no pain, no discomfort, no fear of the knife, psycho-logical peace.

Economical advantage is : one saves antiseptics, dressings, andthe surgeon's and the nurse's time.

The series may be only small, but the results have been uni-versally good, so that publication was deemed necess ary.

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The Tarentula cubemrs can be obtained from any good homa-

opathic chemist, in the suitable dilution.It should be stored in a dark cupboard, well away from all

strong-smelling medicaments, such as camphor in any shape or

form, mentho,l, etc., of the drug will become inactive, and no

results witl be obtained. This applies, of course, to all homao-

pathic medicines of whatever strength.Since writing the above, I met a case of mamm ary abscess,

involvirg the who,le of the outer half of the left mammae, during

lactation. The abscess was very hard, and tender, she could not

bear to put the child to the breast, it had been gradually forming

for a week; twenty-four hours' treatment with Tarentula local-

ized the abscess, removed the pain and a small incision was madejust outside the areola, where the abscess was pointing. F{alf an

ounce of pus was removed. an external dressing of Calendul,a

lotion was applied, the breast was lightly supported with a pad

and bandage, and in another twenty-four hours the discharge

had almost ceased; three days later the sinus had completely

closed, and the mother was feeding again normally from that

breast. Silica 6x, two-hourly, was given, after the abscess was

opened, 2s experience had taught us that Silica assists in drying

up a discharging sinus.Still more experiences showing the advantage of Ho'mmopathy

over ordina ry treatment in septic troubles.A middle-aged man who thought he knew somethitg about

"septic fingers" and whitlows, had been treating a whitlow of his

ri.qht thumb for two weeks with fomentations, Epsom salt dress-

ings, soaking his thumb, etc., rvhich made it rather worse. In des-

peration he came to the dispensary: the thumb was cleaned tp and

dressed with mercurial lotion, the nail was gently lifted uP, and

the pus underneath released. He was treated for five days with

very little improvement. Then he was seen by the Medical Officer

who ordered Silica go three times a duy; but made no other

change. He shorved himself again after two days, and the swell-

irg of the thumb had gone down to,normal, the sinus underneath

the nail had dried up. Two days later the 'whole septic condition

had disappeared, and the nail did not require to be taken off, as

it was feared at first. Four days' treatment with homaopathic

Sitica in a high potency, and a septic nail healed up which had

refused to do so for the three weeks previous to it. This is no

miracle to the homaopathic surgeon, who sees such cases daily.

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What a boon homrcopathic treatment would be to the workingman ! Many weeks of treatment would be sa,ved. Stiff fingerswould be prevented, and there would be fewer compensationcases.

One remembers-this was years ago-a case of septic teno-synovitis and cellulitis of the right thumb going up the arm in alrorse-keeper who had been bitten by a horse. Hypericum dress-ings and Hypericunz 30, four-hourly, so changed this dangerouscondition that he was discharged cured with a sound, freelymovable thumb in less than a week.

I should not like to do without Homaopathy in the mostserious septic conditions. I should guarantee a more rapid curewithout antiseptics; notwithstanding the most virulent bacteriaor even if antiseptics have to be used, supplement the localtreatment with the indicated homaopathic remedy, and the curewill be much quicker.

Get hold of Carleton's Homuo'pathy in Medicine and Surgery.FIe gives clinical cases and indications for remedies in a variety ofsurgical cases.

PYROGEI,{ (AFTE,R DR. GE,ORGE, BIJRFORD)

THB remed.ies Pyrogen and Septicaemin are very little known and

yet they are of such sovereign value that one can only regret that

they do not stand in the front rank o'f homaopathic use and

wont in the choice of the prescribers who act on the principle of

the adjustment of remedy to malady.Professor Burdon Sanderson was a great orthodox lvlateria

Medica man and physiologist. He taught that decomposing

organic materials were unique in inducing rise of temperature in

the body. He did not go any further than that. Dr. Drysdale, a

Homaopath, recognized the value of and began to experiment

with this pyrexia-producing fluid on homaopathic lines as a

powerful remedial measure. He called this crude substance used

by him, Pyrogen, which he prepared by macerating ra,w beef in

cold water, thereafter exposing this infusion for weeks to the rays

of the sun. Burnett standardized this preparation and made use

of it in fevers and blood-poisonirg, the result of which he pub-

lished in a monograph in I BBB. The crude substance from which

potencies were prepared in the usual manner was decomposing

animal fluid, the retrograde change in its composition occurred

outside the body. The American Homaopaths then began to

make use of the septic substance of the morbid fluids o,f the body

and proved then the close parallelism of the symptoms produced

by the morbid agent and clinical human pathology.

Dr. Swan, who lvas the high priest and instigator of the high

dilution school, raised the morbid Pyrogen containing material

from the contents of a septic abscess to the highest level of trans-

cendental potencies, and commenced that series of well-nigh

miraculous cures which are only paralleled by the clinical ex-

periences of Hahnemann himself in the post-Napoleonic years.

These potencies of Swan were made from septic pus; Sherbino

later made provings with Swan's potencies : while the earlier

British work was done with decomposing beef as the crude

primary agent, but the therapeutic successes were astounding

whether made, as in America, with septic pus, or as in England,

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with septic beef. As time went on,the potency from 6r., administeredor cm., administered in unit doses.

the tendency was to changenight and morning, to ro m.

Crrxrcnr ExpnnrENCEs

Burnett used mainly the 6th centesimal dilution two-hourly inacute cases.

Shuldham employed the same potency in two cases of diph-theritic sore throat.

Sherbino cured a case of puerperal fever and was led to itsselection by the high pulse rate.

Hunt cured with Pyrogen 2oo an elderly wornan suffering foryears rvith an ulcerated t.S riddled with .i..p burrowirg .ri-..rr.

And Swan gives as a special indication for Pyrogen, pulseabnormally rapid and out of proportion to the temperature.

The principal symptoms are :Disproportion between pulse and temperature i pulse continu-

ally rises.Restlessness owing to soreness of parts.Better sitting up in bed and in the act of rising, relieved by

stretchitg out limbs, hands and arnls are numb : great benefitfrom heat and movement.

One of my earliest experiences of the great benefit of Pyrogenon the suffering individual was in Dr. Burford's wards. Thiswoman had had an extensive and serious operation. f think itwas a fallopian tube abscess followed by peritonitis. She re-covered weli after various homaopathic r.*.dies, but there wasextensive sloughitg of the abdominal wound which would notheal, along with a, fistula leading to an opening into the peri-toneal cavity. There was pyrexia around about gg' and r oo

o

and pulse rate of I50. Dr. Burford with his clinical acumen sug-gested to me the making of an auto-vaccine from the patient'sown pus, and I was entrusted with the making of this auto-pyrogen accorditg to homaopathic rules. I chose several bottles,rnacerated a platinum loopful of the pus from the abdominalwound as far clown as I could go with the probe-and then tookone drop of this macerated pus and mixed it with gg drops ofrectified spirit. This was in I g r 3 and rectified spirit was cheapand in general use in homaopathic hospitals. Then I succussedthis dilution and labelled it r c .; then I took one drop of this

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dilution and mixed it with 99 drops of rectified spirit, succussedit well and labelled it 2c., and repeated this process carefully sixtimes in all, until I had the 6c. dilution. Of this 6c. potency thepatient had five drops night and mornins, and in less than aweek the wound had healed up from the bottom and the scar wassound and firm. One remembers how pleased Dr. Burford waswith the result; the patient was seen three months later andshowed a strong scar with no signs of a threatening hernia. ftmade a deep impression on one's mind, especially as one recalleda similar case in the wards of Edinburgh Infirm ary in a middle-aged man of 55 who had extensive suppuration of the abdominalwound and a sinus leading down to peritonium after an opera-tion for a ruptured duodenal abscess, and he was round aboutsix months in the wards before this wound healed up. And thepatient in the Homaopathic Hospital treated with Pyrogen wasout after a month or barely five weeks. An astonishing differ-ence ! No wonder that one thought highly of the power ofPyrogen in septic cases. As Dr. Burford puts it succinctly: ubiuenenunt, ibi remediun'L-where the poison ir, there is therenredy, the cause may also evoke the cure.

Some further examples of the use of Pyrogen in dangerouscases may show its cxtreme value in emergencies.

During the serious influenza epidemic in I g I B- t g, one's clini-cal acumen was greatly tried, but again and again one wasthankful for the very efficient aid that homaopathic medicinesprovided, and over and over again an apparently serious casequickly turned the corner.

Patients used to sey, "I only had a very mild case of 'flu."

They never gave the credit of the rapid cure to the almost taste-less watery medicines they used to imbibe. There were no com-plications, no heart trouble, no broncho-pneumonia, ro septicp,neumonias, and therefore no, fatal incidents in over a, hundredcases. A triumph for Homaopathy indeed. Very few cases gaveme much anxiety. The only relapse I had was a lady dispenserwho knew so much that she wished to almost treat herself, andshe had several weeks in bed and was f.ar more pulled downafterwards than any of the other cases, even though she had thesame strict starvation diet, copious draughts of barley water,lemon juice, orange juice and grapes as the other patients Ilooked after. So I proved to myself that a natural diet, afruitarian diet alone, was not the greatest factor in promoting a

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rapid cure. It always wanted the indicated-that is the righthomaopathic remedy-for each individual case.

There was another case that caused me some anxiety, as itwould not respond to the usual remedies. He was a young maninvalided out of the arrny on account of shrapnel wounds in hisankle. The rest of his family, both parents, several brothers andsisters, responded quickly to, the treatment given, temperaturescame down within twelve to twenty-four hours. They were keptin bed for seven days, after the first duy of normal temperature,and kept for two or three days only on a fruit diet which wasgradually augmented by ordering vegetable soups and egg dishes.His mother co'uld not understand why her eldest son did not getwell as quickly as the rest, and put it down to the effects of thewar wounds. She was not far wrong either, as it turned out inthe end. After nearly a week of pyrexia I had visited him at allhours of the doy arrd night to get all the symptoms collectedtogether, nurses were at a premium just at that time, and onedepended on the relatives, provided there was anybody left to dothe nursing, and I carried several door keys in my pockets to letmyself into the various ho,uses. Well, eventually I go,t the follow-itg disease picture : very high, steadily rising temperature, goingup to Io5o at night, the pulse remainirg somewhere about roo-I I o, therefore the pulse and temperature were quite out of pro-portion. He was extremely restless, never staying long in one posi-tion, very confused as regards the number of extremities heowned, there seemed to be so many arms and legs in the bed; hecomplained of the extreme hardnes,s of the bed, his back was sopainful and the bed was as hard as a board. He had receivedRhus. tox. for his restlessness, also Arnica for the hardness o'f thebed and (?) rernote effects o,f war injuries; also Baptisia, whichseemed to correspond to the confusion o,f the mind and the sen-sation of there being more than one person in the bed; nothirgwould touch the illness, however; the weakness went from badto worse, There were drenchitg sweats, ?r offensive, penetratingodour from his perspiration; he had to change his shirts severaltimes in the twenty-four hours; his mouth and tongue were foul,and yet AI ercury did not touch him. I did not give up hope, butcontinued to study the case. In the back of my mind I knewthere was sornethitg that would act as a key to open the door tothis maze) this co'mplicated septic fever. Suddenly it came to ffie,there was a certain remedy which had this arrhythmia of pulse

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and temperature, a high temperature with a low pulse or viceversa. This was Pyrogen, and in reading up Py,rogen in theMateria Medica, there was the simillimum; the extreme restless-ness, the bruised feeling of the parts lain or, the relief by move-ment of feet, by change of position; offensive, disgusting perspira-tion, great weakness and lassitude: it was all there. So Pyrogencm.-the only potency I had except the rnm., both Heath Pot-encies from America-was given two-hourly in a watery solution,and by the morning, a few hours after the late night visit-I foundthe patient had slept more restfully and the temperature wasdown to r oo

o, that night, within twenty-four hours of startingthis new medicine, the temperature was normal, and it keptnormal after that. I continued the remedy for a couple of daysand then finished off with one dose o'f. Pyrogen mm., dry on thetongue. I do not remember now, whether he had a constitutionalremedy at the end of "seven days bed," after the temperaturereached the normal level. Anyway, the patient was kept undero,bservation for several years afterwards, and he had no after-effects from his serious attack of "wartime 'fltr" and on thewhole he came off quite lightly, compared with many othervictims; he was only in bed for a little over two weeks : eightdays' temperature and seven days' recuperative rest. In this caseno,rrnal influ enza, if one may be allowed to call any influenzanormal-was complicated by previous inoculations of the varioustyphoid, paratyphoid and cholera bacilli; he had had anti-malarial inoculation, he had been vaccinated, he had anti-streptococcal injections and inoculations against tetanus, and hecould not remember what other inoculations he had had to sub-mit to. I came to the conclusion that he was full of septic matter,and his blood stream was a battlefield of all sorts of serums andbacteria, and hence the drenchirg sweats, the high tempet'ature,the offensive odour and the extreme prostration.

In my own mind I am abso,lutely convinced that this youngman would have been another of the numerous victims o{ thef.atal influenza epidemic, if it had not been for our Pyrogen.

A number clf years passed by, but the lesson one was taught ofthe action of. Pyrogen was never forgotten. One d*y I heard of apoor woman lying dangerously ill in her own ho,me after herconfinement : she had been in hospital antenatally for severalweeks with high temperature due to pyelitis, the story went, andwas sent out even though the fever, etc., had not abated, under

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the care of a district nurse with the instruction to call in a localdoctor. There was such a call on the hospital beds, she had tobe discharged. I heard of her accidentally, she had been at ho,mefor ne arly a week since her return from hospital : the visitor to'ldme that the temperature would not come down, but stayed roundabout Io3", the pulse was only about Bo though; she was soweak she could not look after her baby, a kind neighbour wasseeing to it. It seemed so tragic, poor Mrs. D. being so ill, asthere was a large family of seven or eight children.

Across my mind flashed the story of the soldier suffering fro,mseptic influenza and his cure by Pyrogen; here, once again, wasthe abnormal pulse-temperature ratio. As there was no doctor in

attendance, the woman was too poor to, pay for one, and thenurse was so \,vorried, a dozen powders of. Pyrogen 30 were sent,with the instructions to take one powder at four-hourly intervals,with the result that the evening temperature, the first tempera-ture taken after the powders had been sent, was 99.8", and thenext morning the temperature was normal and stayed normal.

The patient reported herself a couple of weeks later as beingvery well except for a crop of vesicles on bo,th her wrists andhand, which cleared up with a dose of Sulphur 30. Here, onceagain, was a septic fever, caused by, and followitg or, someinfection of the female generative organs, cured by Pyrogen,which eliminated the poison, ?s often happens after homaopathicmedication, through the skin.

A little while ago I carne across this abnormal pulse-tempera-ture ratio,in a case of post-o,perative pyrexia. Pyrogen was exhibi-ted and pulse and temperature came down together and thepatient reported the curious fact that shortly after taking thepowder she could taste pus in her throat and mouth. She was avegetarian and had never tasted meat in he,r life, so she said, andwas probably hypersensitive. I gave her unmedicated powders totry and prove the veracity of her statements; and she only com-plained of the putrid taste after ^ Pyrogen powder. As it wasgiven in the 3oth potency, it was certainly not a physiologicalreaction, more in the form of a proving.

Pyrogen-which is a product of sepsis-cures septic feversof all kinds and conditions when the symptoms agree; it wasproved on healthy individuals, and produced a distinctive type ofpyrexia with definite clear-cut indications. Thus it proves againthe great truth of the Homaopathic Law : Like cu,res like. fn my

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hands it cured septic influenza, puerperal pyelitis, and post-operative pyrexia, and it will continue to cure o,ther septic diseasesshowing the typical symptoms.

M*y cases of blood-poisonirg and ptomaine poisonirg, peri-tonitis, and pyrcmia could be saved by Pyrogen, if the medicalpractitioners would only study our Materia Medica and apply itin cases which show the characteristics I mentioned. Pyrogen isclosely related to various other remedies, it is very similar toRhus. tox., to Baptisia, to Arnica; one has to get together allthe distinctive symptoms of each case and then appty the simil-limum, the remedy which is most similar. The general medi-cal profession is getting an inkling of the truth, as it is usingthe serum and vaccines made from individual bacteria or a com-bination of bacteria, found in different septic cases and injectingthem hypodermically, and in certain cases they do get a positivereaction, a good curative result. But their doses are too big, andthe results are too uncertain, and until they learn to give minutedoses and apply them accordirg to a definite law of-.r,rr., theirresults will never be as good as our remedies applied strictly, fo,l-lowing the larvs discovered by Hahnemann :

(t) The single remedy.(z) The minute dose.(S) Given on the totality of the symptoms found in the indivi-

dual patient, and corresponding to the symptoms produced byhealthy provers.

An interesting confirmation of the value of. Pyrogen in prevent-itg blood-poisonitg cornes from a keen homaopathic laymanwho worked in Smithfield meat market. He found that Pyrogentaken immediately after being scratched, when handling carcasesof meat which were frequently not any too sound, stopped anyinfection occurrirg. He used to distribute Pyro gen 3o to hisfriends after septic scratches on arms and hands from handlingseptic meat, and invariably cured these lesions. Ffe was veryenthusiastic about the magic that rested in the minute doses ofPyrogen, and here the homaopathic law proved itself again asbeing correct. The septic meat produced septic scratches andinflammation ascenditg up the arm) and Pyrogen, septic meat inhomaopathic doses, cured it.

Magna est Veritas et praeualeb;t!

NARCOLEPSY

(InnnsISTItsLE Srnnprxns s)

"SuDDElrLy she fell asleep." The daily papers are always out

after medical curiosities, and have been making a fro'nt page

incident of a young lvoman in the early twenties who falls asleep

every time she laughs. She went to the pictures, laughed at thejokes, fell asleep suddenly and could not be awakened, so that she

had to be taken home in an ambulance, and then slept for four

hours. Ary sudden shock affected her in the same *zy, it might

be anger or laughter. This mental disorder has recently been

classified by Dr. Adie, who, since 1926, examined some fifty cases

in the followirg four years, and Cescribed this affiictior, which

he called narcolepsy, under the followitg terms. "It is character-

ized by attacks of irresistibte sleep without apparent cause, and

curious attacks of emotion, in which the muscles relax suddenly,

so that the victim falls to the ground, often fully conscious, and

yet unable to move." There are two different kinds of attacks :

( r ) Sleep attacks. Spontaneous seizures, the patient remains

more or less unconscious.(z) Catalepsy. This is caused by violent emotion, anser, joy,

laughter-therefore truly a case of helpless laughter. He becomes

stiff and helpiess, knows what happens, but can't help himself

and does not always lose consciousness. This condition may come

on after a period of stress and strain, for example when a patient

has no,t been having sufficient sleep for a considerable time. The

sufferer gets "sleepy attacks" during the daytime at first, especi-

ally after eating, such as after heavy lunches in the middle of the

duy, when the brain is naturally anrcmic, nearly all the blood

being required for the process of digestion. The sleep lasts from

fifteen to twenty minutes, and in no way differs fro,m ordinary

sleep. On the Continent the siesta after the mid-day meal is

encouraged rather than otherwise, and the German calls this

post-prandial somnolence nur ein Viertelstiindchen These sleepy

attacks are liable to come on at such times, lvhen normal people

feel sleepy, only in a more exaggerated form, say in a hot close

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room or in an overheated railway co,mpartment during a longjourney. The normal person can be roused, but the narcolepticcannot.

The usual professional advice is not to fight against this irresis-tible desire for sleep, but to give way to it and have a short nap.Again, it has been noted that narcoleptics fall asleep the momentthey get into bed and sleep well and long.

A cataleptic attack is usually caused by laughter. Everythinggoes limp, the knees give wdy, the arms drop to the side, theeyelids close and the patient falls to the ground, helpless, unableto speak, but well aware of everything that goes on around him.Such an attack, it is stated, can be warded off by not giving wayto emo,tio,n, to anger or to laughter. What a dull life ! no,t even tobe allowed to laugh at Mickey Mouse or the antics of CharlieChaplin !

This condition of narcolepsy, even though apparently quite anew disorder, and which has only recently been fully studied andclassified by the medical scientist, must have been met with years2 s o , f o r t h a t k e e n o b s e r v e r o f h u m a n n a t u r e a n d i t s f r a i l t i eCharles Dickcns-gives a good description of a narcoleptic in thefat boy of Dingley Dell in the Pickutick Papers. This boy woulddrop off to sleep at the most unexpected moments, while standingand serving at table, while sitting in the front seat of a coach, inthe very act of knocking for admission at a door, he would go tosleep. He fell into a deep sleep even during meal times, whileindulgitg in the very heavy repasts which Dickens relates withsuch loving detail. I{arco,lepsy is therefore not a modern disease.It was known to the ho'maopathic physicians as well, for in thelarge Repertorv- of Kent, that symposium o,f numerous exactsymptoms, a column and a half is devoted, not to narcolepsy orcatalepsy (these scientific names have only recently been coin.d),but to the simple term "falling asleep," which does neither dazenor mystify, but is good plain English and can be understood byall and sundry. There are separate items for falling asleep in themornitrS, noontide while eatirg, afternoons rvhile sitting, eveningsafter eating, ffid so o,n.

For the information of the co,lonial readers and others inter-ested who are far away from the ken of a homaopathic physician,I shall give some of thcse rubrics and the remedies from Kent'sRepertory, fourth edition :

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Falling asleep, mornings : Coca., h.p., Iyt.

)) forenoons : Calc.

)) ,) while reading : Nat. sulph.

)) noon : Aloe.

',',

"ll.r**',

tfi:L*i#: cina, dios., hy*., mas. c., nat. m.,

phys., sabad., sep.

)) ), ,while sitting : Nat. mur.

)) evenings : Ammon. carb. ) mez.

)) )) after eating : Ammon. carb., gels.

,) while reading : Mez.

), while sitting : Apis, h.p., Nux voM., tell.

)) 5 p.m., while sitting : Nat. mur.

), H'hen answering : ARN., Benr., hyos.(N.8.-!6s find this state in serious cases ofpyrexia, such as typhoid, intermittent fevers,tropical fevers, influ enza, etc.)

)) after beer : Thea.

,) breakfast : Sumbul.

), during conversation : Caust., tarax.

,) after dinner : Ant. t., caust., coca., cur., M og. carb.,tabacum.

)) after eating : Arum tig., bor., calc. p., gamb., lya., mur.vc., nat, m.

)) during heats : Ant. t., ap,is., CALAD., Eup. pER., gels., igt.,LACH., lya., MF,Z., NAT. MUR., Nux m., Op.,Pono., RoB., SAMB., stram.

)) after laughing : Phos.(N.B.-!sp see this curious condition of "fallingasleep after laughing" was known to the earlyHomaopaths, and unless there are other symp-toms contra-indicating P hos.-phos . should curenarcolepsy after laughing.)

,, from the least mental exertion : Ans., chloral., ferr., Hyos.,igt., kali. bt., kali c., nat s., nux I)., tarax.

)) after pain : Phyt.

)) while reading : Angustura, cimic., colch., igt., iris, 1y..,mez., nat, ffi., nat. s., plat., ruta,, Sep.

), while sewing : Ferrum.

,) while sitting : Acon., ang. , ant. t.) apis, ars., arum t., aur.,calc. p., china, cimic. , cina, ferr., form., hap., igt.,

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kali. bt., kali. carb., 1y.., merc., muriatic acid,nat. c., n,at. T/1.1 nat. p., Nux voM., puls. , s€p.ttell., thuj., tarent.

), while standing : Acon., corr. r., mag. c., morph.

), after dinner : Mag. c.

), after stool : tlCth., elaps,, sulph.

)) while talking : Caust., chel., ffi?g. c., morph., ph. ac.

,, after vomiting : t!Eth., bell. (N.B.-('This precious littlesymptoffi, falling asleep, after vomiting, has saved

il#t":Jtlill,LT],)u'"" cases or inrantile diarr-

)) from weakness : Petr., phos.

,, after wine : Thea (also after beer).

)) H'hile writing: Phos. zc., thuja.You see, this gives quite a full and detailed account of what

are or might be the concomitant symptoms of "sudden droppingasleep. "

For example, if I had been asked to do somethitg for the f.atboy in Pickwick Papers, I should have taken the rubrics: afterdinner, while standing, while standing after dinner, while talk-irg, while talking after dinner-and the remedy workirg throughall this would be Mog.carb. I should then look up Mag. carb. inthe Materia Medica books, and there one finds "inordinatecraving for meat"-and there you are. I should expect to curethis "fat boy" of his sleepiness and over-eating and eventuallyof his obesity.

One remembers a case which happened years "go,

long beforenarcolepsy and catalepsv were officially recognized, classified anddifferentiated. I diagnosed it then as an automatic state in a caseof pituitary obesity. A young woman, very stout, big and pale,used to be suddenly seized with attacks of sleepiness, drowsinessand auto,matic behaviour during her menstrual periods.

She was an active, intelligent girl, a clerk, well thought of byher firm, who every month was suddenly taken like this. She be-came drowsy and dazed, and could not answer, stared stupidlywhen addressed, heard and saw everything, could remembereverything afterwards, but was quite speechless and unable tomove at the time. Everything seemed far off to her, she did notseem to recognize her friends even. I saw her once in this state,and very pitiful she looked. fn between she was always bright,active and hrppy, though very rvorried about these peculiar

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attacks which invariably happened every month, during theperiods. She was very much afraid of losing a good job, as shealways had to have two or three days off. There were other symp-toms present which led me to the right remedy : she complainedof a dry mouth, the tongue literally stuck to the roof of hermouth, and yet she was never thirsty; she was flatulent, veryconstipated before and during her periods, the stoo,l was soft, nothard as a constipated stool usually is, she felt the cold weather,especially the cold, damp weather, and yet hated a close, warrnroom, which always made her more sleepy and dazed. Shefainted easily, when she had to stand, and then there was thisautomatic conduct, this sleepiness, drowsiness and confusion ofmind. The only remedy that covered all these symptoms was Ir{uxmoschata, the common nutmeg. She was given lt,'ux moschatacm., the only potency I had got; for three months she had noreturn of her attacks, and these had been troublirg her for twoyeans at least; then another severe attack, during which I sawher, the first time I had actually seen her in an attack. Thenanother dose of LIux moschata cm. which held her for six monthsthis time; she had only a slight return of her old trouble, thenthree doses of l{ux moschata; and then no further medicine wasrequired. The trouble ceased. The lr{ux moschata had helped her"to grow out of this affliction."

Trvo years afterwards I met her, a healthy, bonny-looking womanon the eve of getting married. I{ever had any trouble since .Lately I have lost sight of her', but she promised to come back,if there should be a return. fn Homaopathy one does not dependon grand sounditg names, and one falls back on the MateriaMedica, on the symptoms laboriously co'llected by generations ofconscientious provers, doctors and luy people, who, put down incommon everyday language their reactions after taking a remedy.We meet certain symptoms in a sick person, md we try to findthe simillimum, the most like medicine ; and after having foundit, we confidently predict and expect a cure. We should give thepoor, young, narcoleptic woman rvho is afraid of laughing forfear of bringing on an attack, the indicated remedy, basing ourselection on the remedies found in the Repertory under the differ-ent headings; it would probably be P hos., but it might be some-thing else, and the result would be a huppy normal individual,once mo,re able to enjoy ajoke to the full : no longer cut off frornall fun and enjoyment.

BRONCHOPI{E,UMONIA

HoucopATHS are said to be powerless against serious acutediseases; therefore let us see whether we can refute this statementof our opponents.

Bronchopneumonia, accorditrg to the text-books, is a terminaldisease, which means, it comes along at the end of an illness andfinishes it-fatally as a rule. More than 50 per cent. of cases ofbronchopneumonia succumb to it, and it is therefore rightlyfeared in allopathic hospitals and under allopathic treatment.Now hear what a sister of one of the homaopathic hospitals saidabout this very same disease in her wards. She could not under-stand why there should be so much bother about broncho-pneumonia, "they always get well in a few days in this hospitaland we have no deaths." This is the testimony of. a trained nurse,who sees behind the scenes and is therefore a good judge.

I have had much per-sonal con tact with bronchopneumonia inpractice, I have seen the results of allopathic treatment in youngchildren, it usually meant writing off the case as another fatality.On District I used to get the cases frequently from other doctorswho had given up a particular child as being beyond hope, mori-bund in fact, and Homeopathy used to pull them roundinvariably.

Only one case of bronchopneumonia ended fatally. This wasan infant, not a fortnight old, r,vho developed a slight cold andslight cough; she was sent home with orders to be kept warmand with some medicine, one forgets what it was. The next duyan almost impenetrable black sooty fog occurred all over London.And this foolish young mother took her infant out in this sul-phurous atmosphere right across London, She was out severalhours in this fog and had to walk most of the *ty, as there wereno vehicles running; just in order to show the infant to its grand-mother ! Natur ally, an acute attack of bronchopneumonia super-vened, and this infant died twenty-four hours later; she was tooyoung to withstand the large doses of sulphurous fog she hadswallo\^'ed.

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Now for an example of bronchopneumonia in a child. Thiswas a child aged eighteen months, the only boy in a family ofgirls, and as the parents were middle-aged and not likely to haveanother, it was important to them that their only boy should live.He had been ill for over a week, and the local doctor had givenup the case as the bronchopneumonia was too far gone; the childcertainly looked moribund when I saw it. He was only semi-conscious; respirations over 6o per minute, temperature wasIo4o, pulse r,t'eak and thready, almost uncountable, round aboutr 6o; cold sweat was on his forehead; you could hear the labouredbreathirg from outside the door.

A most unpromising case : death was very close indeed. I triedAntimonium tartaricu,m m. in three-hourly do,ses, on the follow-irg symptoms : dilated, sooty nostrils which were flapping witheach breath; lungs full up with mucus, impossible to raise thephlegm. Coarse rattling sounds in chest; great weakness, lack ofreaction. There was no result, no change in twenty-four hours,and no response to An,timonium tart. Did I give up then andturn my back on this nearly dead child ? Oh ilo, we had otherweapons still at our call. There was LycoNtodiunz which has al-most identical symptoms; I noticed that the right side of thelungs seemed \,vorse, and the father said that trouble had startedon the right side; also there was wrinklirg of the forehead. Wehave to go in for such minutiae in homaopathic treatment whichseems so unimportant to other doctors, and yet make all thedifference between life and death sometimes. Lycopodium rffi.,two-hourly, was prescribed, and to my joy the next time I wentin, the respirations and the pulse had dropped-forty-eight hoursafter the first dose of. Lycopodium had been given, the tempera-ture was normal, and within less than a week fro'm my first visitthe child was perfectly well, the lungs were clear and no signs ofany bronchopneumonia were left. A triumph for Homaopathy;what magic rests in the correctly applied remedy !

I had many such cases; sometimes Antomonium tartaricumwould perform the miracle, sometimes Lycopodium would act inthe same way, according to the syntptoms found; other times itwas Sulphur which saved the situation; and very frequently againit was Phosphoru,s. One has to consider all the symptoms, andaccordirg to what were the predominating symptoms, the co,rres-ponding medicine was chosen, and confidently one could predict

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success : there were never any later complications. No emphy-sema followed, no unresolved patches of pneumonia were leftbehind. The cure followed quickly and gently after each correctlygiven remedy. I was present on one occasion at a discussion atan Invalid Children's Aid Association meeting on the very seriousresults of emphysema after bronchopneumonia, and the beststeps to take to alleviate this evil. Apparently it cost this Associa-tion hundreds of pounds in money for convalescing these emphy-sematous children. And yet under homaopathic treatment youdo not see these cases ! Would it not be worth while if doctorsstudied some of these remedies I mentioned and gave them tothese bronchopneumonic children ? And even later when emphy-sema has developed, our remedies will clear it up. Kent's Reper-tory mentions thirty remedies under the rubric "E-physema," sothere is plenty of choice and the right remedy can be found, ifeach case is carefully studied and investigated. There is no, needeven to give the high potencies, the transcendental doses I men-tion : the lower potencies work, more slowly in my opinion; butthey do work. Tty the remedies in the 3rd decimal attenuations,and results rvill fo'llow.

Now for another very interesting case of bronchopneumonia.A young lady, early thirties, was fighting a slight bronchial co,ldfor abo,ut a week, and unfortunately at this stage, exigencies ofher profession made it necess ary for her to expose herself to thevagaries of this climate and go a long railway journey acrosscountry and stay for twenty-four hours in lodgings. She collapsedwith a high temperature on her return home and had to stay inbed. As she was a good Homaopath, she took frequent doses ofAconite Zx to bring down the temperature, unfortunately shewas beyond the aid of Aconite, and twenty-four hours later Iwas called in. I found a delirious patient with brilliantly flushedcheeks, respirations round about 28, pulse r z B and temperaturero2.Bo-constant dry cough with rusty, blood-stained mucus,which was difficult to bring up. Sharp cutting pains right base oflungs each time she moved, and whenever she coughed. Onexamination I found signs of bronchitis and friction sounds atthe right base indicating the presence of pleurisy besides bron-chitis. She was very thirsty, constantly drinking cold water, andthen there were these sharp cutting pains in her side.

This seemed to spell Bryonia, and I left Bryonia go to be takenhalf-hourly while necess arf t the intervals to be lengthened if the

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pains, etc., improved. I also ordered anti-phlogistine to be appliedto the right side at the back and a firm bandage round the wholechest for support. Twenty-four hours later the condition wasunchanged, pulse, respiration and temperature remained at thesame level, only the acute stitching, cutting pains were improving.I continued to give Bryonia as before, which she had for threedays altogether; it made no, impression on the disease ; it removedthe pains, that was all. The dullness in the back extended higherup, crepitations were made out on the right side as high up asthe apex of the scapula, and there were rhonchi and rAles allover the lungs. Temperature remained round about and betweenIo2o and ro3o, the pulse was between I20 and I30, respirationsbetween zB and 3tr. Just a typical case of early broncho-pneumo,nia in a young well-developed adult after exposure.

After three days one reviewed the case and took the symptomsagain. She was bringing up rusty, blood-stained sputum; therewas a feeling of weight and heaviness and aching in her chest,great thirst for cold water, great aversion to tea, which she wasvery fond of as a rule; anxious delirium, she was subco,nsciouslyworrying as to whether it was time to take the horrid medicineagain; was rather loquacious rvhen she woke up; vivid deliriousfancies on being aroused frorn sleep and on fallirg asleep. All thisindicated Phosphorus now, and on the third duy I gave her Phos-phorus gx in frequent doses, two-hourly, I think. She had veryvivid fancies in her delirium, she thought the bed was crowded sothat there was no, room for the hot water bottle in the bed; therewere too many people in the bed, she talked of threepeople being in bed with her. Fortunately I did notknow this, or I might have given her a different medicine whichwould not have answered so well. The skin of her face was sotight, she had to put on cold cream to ease it; her lips wereparched and dry and cracked. Twenty-four hours later, to mygreat astonishment, pulse and temperature were still the same,the symptoms were unaltered. What to do now ? The remedywas still indicated, but the potency was wrong. I went higher andgave her Phos. 30, four-hourly. The next duy the temperaturewas down to IoI.2o and the pulse was 96 in the evening, twenty-four hours after the first dose o,f. Phosphoru,r 30.

I was delighted at the response I got fro,m Phos.30 and con-tinued to give it four-hourly. In another twenty-four hours thetemperature was normal and the pulse down ta 7 e. Within forty-

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eight hours o{ first giving Phosphorus in the 3oth potency, thetemperature dropped from ro2.+o to normal, and the pulse camedown from re8 to 72, and the respirations from 28 to 2c. Thatwas six days after the first visit.

Now for the subsequent history : the cough was still trouble-some, even though there was no more blood-stained sputum; thisdisappeared when Phos. 30 was first given; the dull patch ofright-sided basal pneumonia cleared up co'mpletely within twoweeks : that is, a week after the temperature had gone down, thepatch disappeared. The bronchial sounds $'ent four days after thetemperature became normal. The patient was kept on water,grapes and dilute orange-juice while the temperature was up, andas the temperature came down she was allowed Brand's chickenessence and later Marmite, vegetable soup, brown bread andbutter were added; and then three days after the temperaturewas down, a light chicken, vegetable and egg diet was permitted.She was kept on P hos. 3o for several days, and then after a weekPhos. xm. was given, which completed the cure.

Let me repeat, this patient's temperature became normal onthe seventh duy of her illness within forty-eight hours after Phos.

30 had been given : the bronchitis and pneumonic patch clearedup in toto within twelve days. There was no cardiac weakness,the patient was clamouring to be up and about within three daysafter the temperature was no,rmal, as she felt so well; but pru-dence prevailed, and she stayed in bed over a week after thenormal temperature. "A mild case of bronchopneumonia" doI hear that mutter in the background ?

Does even a mild case of bronchopneumonia recover so com-pletely in less than fourteen days? The effect of the Phosphoruswas so prompt after it had been given that there was not theslightest doubt whatever that it was due to the Phosphorus thatthe improvement set itt; but the curious way in which Phos-phorus gx would not work, while Phos. high did its rvorkso rapid-ly and smoothly. The patient was used to low potencies, so Ithought I should give a, low potency first. The general opinionamong homaopathic physicians is "give a low o,r medium pot-ency in acute diseases" and "leave higher potencies to chronicdiseases."

One hzn to find out in each patient which potency acts best.Begin with a low potency and r1i.k to it, if you have faith in alow potency. If the symptoms remain the same and you have

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faith in your selection, you know your remedies and you know it

cannot be another remedy, do not change it, but go higher, ftY6r or r2x or 3o.r if you like and you find the higher potency will

act, where the lower potency fails.Kent's Re pertory quo'tes seventeen remedies for pleuro-

pneumonia (bronchopneumonia) and thirteen remedies fortyphoid pneumonia, f am no,t sure whether he meAns pneumoniain the later stages of typhoid (the terminal bronchopneumonia ofthe orthodox school) or just bronchopneumonia with accompany-irg weakness, as you would find it in the typhoid. As I said beforeit is a question of studying your patient, watchitg and observittgall the minute sympto,ms-having a good nurse at hand, whocan report all the little details which o,ccur during your absence,and then putting it all together and finding the counterpartamong the reuredies given in the Repertory.

I\ash's Leaders in Homaopathic Therapeutics gives very goodpictures of remedies which are easily recognized, even by thetyro.

Allen's Keynote of Leading Remedies is another useful bookfor the beginner. During a conversation I had with a Germandoctor rvorking in a homaopathic drug-house, we discussed themerits of various homrcopathic books; he agreed with me that

Nash's Leaders was a very good Materia Medica book for thebeginner, exceret that the high potencies, he declared, were moon-shine. That was the opinion of a low potency man, and in Ger-many, I fancy, judging from their publications, it appears theyonly give low potencies. This is very curious, fo,r the master inHomaopathy, our Hahnemann, was after all a Germ dn, and he

gave up the lower potencies in his later years in favour o,f thehigher ones. The reason he gave for this change was that therewas less aggravation after a high potency than after a low one.Are the present race of German doctors more material than thegreat Hahnemann ? He was after all a great philosopher andmetaphysician, and the German race has produced many greatphiloiophers in the past. It seems strange that the much morepractical and material American race should produce the highpotency men, and that an idealistic philosophical people, such asthe Germans, should cling to the more material doses. Highpotencies a,ct, and act rapidly, but they have to handled withcare. It is much better to stick to the lower potencies, unless youknow your Materia Medica very well. Also high potencies have

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to be very carefully made, must be stored properly, or they losetheir virtue rapidly. Therefore they should not be sold or stockedby chemists on the same shelves with other strong-smelling crudedrugs such as Aloes, Camphor, Menthol, Peppermint, Asafoe-tida, Valerian, Turpentine, Carbolic Acid, etc. They should bekept in special dry and dark cupboards or special rooms wherethey cannot get contaminated. Again let me repeat the warningon a previous page ! Low potencies only should be used by luypeople, unless they are advised to do otherwise by a homao-pathic physician.

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CHRONIC BRONCHITIS

Cerv Homaopathy do anything for chronic bronchitis ?fn such a variable climate as ours, the lot of the bronchial indi-

vidual is no,t enviable. The rich bronchial patient is ordered outof England for the duration of the period of prolonged fogs andrains and cold winds by his doctor, and usually spends themonths of exile in Egypt or the Canary Islands. The poorerclasses have to put up with it and haunt the out-patient halls ofthe various hospitals, going from tuberculosis hospital or dispen-sary to a general hospital or infirrnary or vice versa in the vainhope of getting relief. Their sputums are tested, their chests areX-rayed and, if found positive, they are drafted on to sanatoria,and rest, and good food and fresh air in an early case does oftenwork wonders. ff no tubercular gerrns are found, they are dubbedchronic and kept under observation, given one of the brands ofMist. Tussis co. of the hospital pharmacopreias, and fall then intothe hands of the junior resident staff. They cough and spit allthrough the duy and often through the night; even the slightestfog aggravates the condition so that it almost becomes unbear-able. The slightest exertion makes them so breathless that it ispainful to see them walk and crawl along the streets; the wiser,of course, stay indoors by the fire and only venture out to get afresh supply of their favourite cough mixture from the paneldoctor or hospital.

I remember such a case poor, under-sized, miserable speci-men o{ humanity, first seen in June, rg3 r, at the age of g+, whenshe was fo,ur months pregnant and came for treatment for analmost cornplete procidentia uteri (uterinc prolapse). The uteruswas replaced and a medium-sized pessary was inserted to keep upthe heavy pregnant uterus. She gave a history of having been"chesty" all her life since the age of three, following on an attackof measles. She had attended the local infirm ary for months forsuspected pulmonary tuberculosis, the periods stayed away formonths as well, which pointed to early tuberculosis. Then she

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was drafted to the tuberculosis dispensary and kept under obser-vation and had repeated sputum tests and X-rays. Nothingdefinite was ever found. The baby was born in due course, amiserable infant, naturally; the pro,lapse recurred afterwards, andthere was some subinvolution of the uterus, the pessary wasrenewed, and one lost sight of her for ten months.

In the meantime she ccntinued to attend the tuberculosis dis-pensary and the nearby large teaching hospital for further testsand X-rays of her chest. On February 9th, I933, she cameto haveher pessary changed and again she co,mplained of irregularity ofthe monthlies and wondered whether she was pregnant. Theuterus was heavy and bulky and cen'ix unhealthy, eroded andinflamed. She was thin and miserable, I noticed the dirty greyishskin, the dirty, ill-kept, untidy clothes and general lack of per-sonal spruceness. On these general signs she was given Sulphur 6night and morning for two weeks, the first time ever she had anymedicine from this department. She really came for her prolapse,not for her general condition; in these mo,dern days there is somuch specialization, and the patient wanders from one depart-ment to another, and in the end perhaps nobody does him or her

much good. Again she was lost sight of for five months; she only

reported in passing that her periods had been regular sinceFebru ary r Gth. The poor always keep a careful tally of theirmonthlies, for fear of somethitg happening.

On J.,ly 2oth, 1933, she turned up again and had anothercourse of Sulphur 6, and then reported she had no bronchialtrouble since February, the time she had been given the Sulphur,and indeed the tuberculosis dispensary had discharged her now.On Febru ary r gth, rg34, a year after being first treated for hergeneral debility, she reported she had been slightly chesty againdur"ing the foggy weather, and that the "periods were dodgingher," and that she had pain on top of the head. T-uberculinurn

30, weekly doses, were given, as there had been this indefinitehistory of a doubtful tubercular infection in the past. Thesesymptoms were really Sulphur symptoms, but I thoughtTuberculinum should now be given. She disappeared againfor seven months, and at the end of September, rg34, reportedthat she was feeling well, and that she had no further aches ontop of the head.

Five months later (end of Februzry, Ig35) no period since

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October z4th. Pains on top of the head. Eyo water and dis-charge. Giddy at night. Feels faint with heats. Sulphur 30. Theperiod came on promptly on March 3rd, and in June, 1935, shereported that she had no further headaches; there was no asthmaand no bronchitis. Her chest trouble had sometimes been calledasthma and sometimes chronic bronchitis. Periods regular everymonth since March (the Sulphur was given end of February).Again a dose of. Sulphur 3o given on this date (June 6th, I g35).

January 9th, 1936. No asthma, no bronchitis, complains ofpains right l.g and cramps of right I.g for several weeks. Theprolapse she originally came for hardly troubled her at all. Feel-i*g well otherwise. Su lphur 3o again.

Muy r4th, I936. Feeling very well. No chest trouble.October 5th, r 936. Thirty-nine years old. Periods scanty again.

Complains o,f pains bottom of back and hot sweats. Sulphu,r go.December t4th 1936. Very well. Prolapse hardly noticeable.

Patient looks very well and feels well; no bronchitis for years.Has never been near the hospital since she was discharged in

Jrly, 1933, and she used to be an almost weekly visitor and wasa sufferer from a "winter cough" since infancy.

A very satisfactory result indeed. Our books are full of recordsof cases of empyeffiz, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, who werecured by doses of ho,maopathic remedies.

Yea, even asthma is curable by Homaopathy, though asthmacases require to keep under treatment for years sometimes; but Ihope to continue this sub.iect at some future date.

Disappointments are common in one's work, and more so ifone ploughs a lonely furrow and go,es against the ideas held bythe herd. It is difficult to convince some people that one can domany things, and if not cure, at any rate improve an apparentlyincurable condition to such an extent that life is a totally differentmatter ever afterwards. One gets these people so f.ar, and thensomebody comes along and puts a spoke in and the improvementstops, and one has to stand by and see a nearly cured chronicpatient slide back and return to the old life. Such a case came tome some three or four years ago. A typical coster woman, g4years o,ld, was bringing her infant along for advice, and I noticedshe had an irritatins, dry cough and looked thin and ill herself.On enquiry, I found that she suffered from bronchiectasis-achronic cavity in the lung, which had co:ne on after an inter-stitial pneumonia some two or three years pr eviously. She had

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been an in-patient in the local infirmdty, when, after thoroughinvestigation, X-rays and so oD, this condition had been diag-nosed, and she was told that nothing could be done, except thatshe was to empty the cavity in her lungs every morning by lean-itg over the side of the bed to allow the accumulation of phlegmto run out by gravity. She had terrible nights, her cough wouldnot let her sleep, and she kept her husband awake, too,, by thisconstant irritating cough, which was worse between 3 and 5 a.m.On first getting up she would bring up quantities of fatid, nasty,thick matter frorn her lungs, and all day long there would be thisdry cough, which was nearly driving her husband crazy. She hadlost pounds and pounds in weight, but was content to stay as shewas, for nothing could be done ! I tried to reason with her, andeventually she was willing to try the treatment I suggested. Ifound signs of old pneumonia at the base of the right lung, andon this sign along with chronic cough, and the general physicalmake-up, a thin, lean person with tendency to distension afterfood, I gave her Lycopodium 6 night and morning. I was anxiousto make an impression in this case, and on looking up the symp-toms at home, I thought it might be KaIi carb.6.

Next week I was prepared to order Kali carb.; but to her greatsurprise and my great joy she repo,rted that the cough had been verymuch better, she had filled three large sputum cups the first twomorninss, and since then there had been very little phlegm, mdher nights were much quieter, her husband had actually slept thenight through and had wondered on waking up, whether his wifewas dead, as she luy so quietly. This state of a"ffairs went on; sheimproved from week to week, and was kept o'n Lyc. 6, and laterLycopodium 12 and then Lyt.30. In three months she put ona stone in weight; the sounds in the right lung cleared up ; thenight cough was a thing of the past, she enjoyed her food; therewas very little phlegm in the morning, and I had visions of thelarge cavity closing up in the lungs, and I was go,ing to send herto the radiologist for confirmation. Alas ! she suddenly becamepregnant again, and with the pregnancy and after the last pre-scription of Lyt. 30 she broke out in a peculiar coppery eruptionall over the body and the arrns : it was a smooth eruption as ifsornebody had painted ladders and snakes all over her; there wasno scalirg and only slight irritation. I was delighted, as a,ccordingto the ho,maopathic principles, if a skin eruption shows, this isproof that elimination of the poison in the system is taking place,

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and the patient is well on the way to recovery, and the best thingis to leaue utell alone a,nd not to opply any external treatment.

Unfortunately, she went to the Maternity Hospital withoutsaying anything to ffie , and there they thoroughly frightened her;they advised coal-tar lotion and coal-tar ointment, to drive theskin trouble in. So for six months she was busy anointitg herselfwith various evil-looking ointments which eventually achievedtheir purpose; that is healing up the skin and, of course, thecough returned as badly as ever, the foul-smelling phlegm beganto run out from the lungs again and she was in status quo. I triedto persuade her to leave the ointment alone; but it was no use;I was the voice of one crying in the wilderness, the hospitaldoctor said ointment had to be applied and he had also said therewas no cure for her other trouble, the chest, and the apparentpreliminary improvement under the treatment rvas just a coin-cidence.

I felt like shaking the woman, but the consensus of opinionwas against Hommopathy, and I heard that the husband hadmurrnured in the background he lvished she would continue withthe rvhite pills, they did seem to do her good, and he had goodnights during the few months she took them !

Homaopathy had succeeded in improving this woman so f.arthat the goal was rvell in sight. Another three rnonths would havesufficed in curing the cavity completely : in f.act, when she startedto put the ointment on, she had no' sympto,ms, there was neithercough nor phlegm; sound health-giving sleep, and good appetite.The drying up of the septic cavity had caused this woman toblossom forth, and then to see all this work spoilt and see hergoing back again to her old condition was heart breaking. Onesaw the woman for another two years off and on; one could aI-wa,ys tell her presence in the dispensary by the metallic drycough, and as she preferred the cough and the disgusting puru-lent phlegm to the skin eruption, which would have been a tem-porary and passing state of affairs, one had to leave her to it.

If only people would rcalize that a deep-seated condition ofimportant internal organs can be cured and is curable; often, itis true, at the cost o'f tempo'rary cosmetic discomfort; that thecure comes from r,r'ithin, and that the external evidence of diseaseshould not be interfered with, except by givitg the correct medi-cine, the medicine indicated by the sympto,ms, and given accord-irg to the homaopathic principles-that like cures like-that the

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skin is an important organ of elimination and that through theskin we throw out all kinds of effete matter; that respiration alsotakes place through the skin, and if \4/e clog up all thepores of the skin by putting on a lot of grease and allsorts of ointments, we do infinite harm to such organsas the lungs, and heart and liver, where the damage doesnot show to the eye , it is true, but it is there nevertheless.Only very few doctors understand this; the schools have forgottenthis important truth since the days of Erasmus Wilson who dis-covered that skin diseases could be made to disapp,ear and weretherefore pronounced c,ured, by external applications. Later,these skin cases developed chronic lung and heart troubles, butthen they came into the province of the heart or lung specialist,and the part of the skin specialist in producing the serious inter-nal disease was overlooked. Some time, one hopes, this sequenceof events will be rediscovered, and then we shall see true "cures,"cures from within outrvards. This is another great homaopathicprinciple, that cures takes place from within outrvards; seriousinternal disease disappears after external manifestations.

Still another more gratifyitg case of chronic bronchitis in ayoung married woman, with the following history : operation forleft-sided empyema at the age of five; troublesome cough eversince then; always worse during winter, very severe during thewinter of 1933. First seen in Februdry, rg1+: had much treat-ment, latterly had been given Kreosote among o'ther things :X-rayed and nothing definite found. Kept her husband awake inthe early mornings by u most distressing dry cough fro,m e o'clockon until 5 or 6 a.m. : irritation behind sternum, has palpitationswhen walking any distance, worse mornings, during cough andgoing up stairs : gets a cold every time she goes out. Periods areirregular all the winter, very scanty, ro c.lo'ts, it comes on for twodays every week or every two weeks-coughs and coughs withoutstopping for an hour or two at a time; coughed constantly whilebeing interrogated and being examined. Husband says "enoughto drive him mad" i patient hates music, is easily irritated, feelsweak all over, gets indigestion easily, feels cold very much : weight6 stones 7 lbs. in clothes; rAles and rhonchi and dullness rightbase of lung. Prescription Kali carb. 6 night and morning.

Seen again on April r 9th, rgg4. Period regular for twomonths; every month not every week as before. Never had a badattack of coughirg since her first visit in I'ebru ary : felt ill and

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seedy for the first week after taking the medicine, but quitedifferent now, and sleeps well now. KaIi carb. 30.

Muy 3rst, rg1+.Caught a cold two weeks ago; not sleeping sowell now, coughs again between 2 to 3 a.m., loose cough withthick phlegm-weight 7 stones 6 lbs., she gained nearly a stone inthree months ! Periods have been regular every month. KaIi cArb.

30 nightly for a week.September r7th, I934. Weight 7 stones B lbs. ; slight returns of

the symptoms, palpitations, no pains in chest; caught a cold lastweek; on examination found again some rAles behind right baseof lung: the first time since February. Dulcamara 12 nightly forthe acute condition; fo,l lowed by Kali cArb.6.

November e8th, rg1+. Very well until cold last week after afog; loose cough which keeps her awake at night ; tickling behindsternum; feels the dry cold very much Rumex crispus 6 t.d.s. fo,racute condition, and Kali carb. rm. Since that time one has notseen her, but one hears through a sister that she is keeping welland has no, return of cough, even though she may get colds. Herhusband is very thankful, he gets peaceful nights now, he hadIaughingly threatened to divorce her if she did not cease hercoughirg.

A chronic cough of many years' duration cured by homao-pathic remedies without change of air, cod-liver oil and malt andother adjuvants; the patient remaining in the sarne district, hav-itg the same food; nothirg is altered except a little medicine isgiven. Carbonate of Potash or Kali carb. in varying potencies,which has the characteristic symptoms as given by this patient,relieved her of her troublesome co'mplaint : her metabolism waschanged for the better, and she rapidly put on weight, a Stone ina few months.

Homaopathy does not let you down, if you are willing tolearn about it and study it. There are many remedies which canand do cure bronchitis, whether acute or chronic; each remedyhas its own particular and distinctive symptoms. The difficultyis : finding the remedy. It means constant study : willing to sit atthe feet of Hahnemann and Jris followers, willing to learn fromthe knowledge which you can find in the many Materia Medicabooks. Start reading and studying Nash and Allen's Keynotes,and later Kent's M ateria M idica and Clarke's Dictionary ofM ateria M edica.

It is a fascinating study; well worth while when you are faced

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with acute diseases and find you are able to cut short these acuteillnesses, your pneumonias, your measles, your whoopi.g coughs,your influenzas; that you have no fear of typhoid, of cholera, ofdiphtheria, o,f serious septic diseases; that you do not get anycomplications after acute diseases when you give homaopathicmedicines; and the more you search, the more Homaopathy willoffer you. You will be able to cure many hitherto incurablediseases and be a true healer.

AI{IMAL CI]RES

Mawv years "go,

at the end o'f a long and tiring duy, I wasgreeted on arriving home with the news that my little puppy hadsuddenly taken ill. On going to his basket I saw a distressingsight : the poor wee beastie was lying there practically uncon-scious, barely breathitg, saliva was dribblirg from his mouth, hisbody felt almost icy cold, even though he was bedded in a warmroom; the skin was dry and harsh, the nose cold and dry, andvery pale i ro,, or very little, pulse could be felt.

I tried to cover him up,, but was assured that he had creptaway from the hot bottle and had refused to remain under theblanket. What was to be done ? I knew practically nothing aboutcanine diseases; I had heard about distemper vaguely; but whatthe symptoms were or the treatment, I had not the foggiestnotion. But I had faith in my "wee sweeties" and I said to my-self : "Well, in a human being with these symptoms-suddenacute attack, great coldness, and with it aversion to being coveredup, great weaknes, pallor-all this meant Camphor"; so why notgive Camphor?

I only had it very high, in the z,oooth potency; rvould it actin a dog ? It was easy to give : the little sweet powder was gentlyput on his tongue, and very anxiously rve waited for a response.In a remarkably short time he opened his eyes and feebly tried tolick my fingers, which I had dipped in warm milk and drop dosesof brandy. Joyfully he was fed with a little more milk andbrandy, the first nourishment he had deigned to take for hours.I{ext morning quite a different spectacle met me; he had crawledout of his basket, and was lying in front of the fire; gaily wag-ging his tail as usual in the morning.

All his co,ldness had disappeared, there was no more diarrhca,there were no further signs of co,llapse-w&s it distemper ? I donot know. His illness only lasted for one short night, and herecovered as quickly as he was stricken down, after taking thatone dose of Camphor.

It had another interesting after-effect. We could not teach the

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little beast to be clean before. f.{o amo,unt of coaxing, scolding orpunishment made any impression on him. But after this illnessand the quick improvernent he changed completely. He becamequite house-clean and quite an exemplary dog.

Was that his way of showing gratitude for being made well ?

"Our Timr" a beautiful tabby Persian cat, is monarch of allhe surveys, and he rules the humans whom he owns with abenevolent tyranny.

A few weeks ago "Our Tim" developed a chill : the first signof it was vomiting and some diarrh @a, which was treated withRhus. toxicodendron, as he is very fond of sitting about on thecold stone lteps and d*p grass itr the garden. Jt usually cutsshort any feverish attacks, but this time it was of no use. Theillness had gone too far and within twenty-four hours it hadattacked the bladder. Very imperiously he was always demandingto be let out. The constant urgirg got worse and worse, and "*ilord" had to use his box in the cellar. He used to look apologeti-cally at first at his mistress, "he could not really help it."

-But

later he was too f.ar gone and he practically lived il his box,standing up continuously straining, just to pass a few drops.

The homapathic Cat book recommended Cantharis for thistrouble. However, after trying it for twenty-four hours and notnoticing the slightest improvement, the Repertory was referred to,and the different symptoms looked up. First it was no,ticed thatthe cat, usually vety fond of warmth, preferred to lie about onthe cold tiles or in a cold, unheated room, away fro,m his mistress,a most unheard of procedure, ?s though he had found the heat ofthe fire was unbearable. He did not like hot clothes on his bladderat all-a suggestion of the vet. Then there was constant strainingto pass water, just a fer,v drops; the urine was extremely cono.r-trated and offensive.

All this pointed to Apis. So Apis was given and produced adefinite aggravation for a quarter of an hour, then he settleddor'r'n and went to sleep for five to six hours, curled up in a ballinstead of lying stretched out straight, which he had not donesince his illness began two, days before. So Apis was repeatedseveral times, whenever the urging frequency began to, showitself, which lvas usually erzery four to five hours, and withinforty-eight hours the frequency had disappeared, ffr. offensive-ness had gone. He had A ltis for about three days and there was no

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need for any other medication. And the cat is now as fit andlively as ever before.

Now another case of dysuria and strangury in a cat, whichoccurred two or three years ago. This tom-cat was frequentlyattacked with pain on passing water, and used to strain andstrain and nothing would pass at all. He was in acute agony andall the local vet. could suggest was warmth and hot cloths on theabdo'men. He diagnosed stone in the bladder, and after two orthree at tacks shrugged his shoulders and suggested putting thecat to sleep. I heard about it, and, finding out that this cat wasextremely fond of sitting hunched up for hours on cold stonefloors in the damp rveather and these attacks always came onafterwards, I prescribed Rhus. Toxicodendron in the 6th cen-tesimal poter.y, which acted promptly, and since that time hismistress always keeps Rhu,s. tox. in the house and, at the slightestsign of bladder trouble, he gets a dose and nothing further hap-pens to distress him. The fame o{ this prescription spread over toParis, where an American friend, who is a cat lover, had one ofher cats attacked with this agonizitg trouble and whose vet. alsoadvised getting rid of her pet. She gave him so,me Rhus. tox. andlo, and behold ! it cleared up at once.

Now for a story about a dog :He was only a little black mongrel in a little slum street, be-

loved play companion of some little friends of mine. He alwaysused to greet me with such a jolly bark, such hearty tail-wagging,when I arrived. One morning I missed his exuberant welcome."Where is 'Pat'?" I enquired, after I had finished with my littlemeasles patients. "Oh ! he has bronchitis and is not we11," themother told me and, on going to his kennel, this was the picturethat greeted me. My do,g friend was curled up in his kennelwhich was lined with blankets and rugs. "Ife was so cold," apolo-gized his mistress, "f had to put an extra rug over him." Thedoor of his kennel \ /as fastened and hung over with a blanket."Why did you fasten the door ?" I asked. "Oh, he is so bad-tempered, so unlike himself, he threatened to bite us." And whenI went up to him he rose up shivering and trembling with coldand growled at me and showed his teeth, a most unusualbehaviour in this friendly little dog, and the breathitg was veryrapid. I could no't examine him, as he was so bad-tempered andunapproachable; but I left some I{ux uornica powder with his

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mistress with full instructions. Two days later when I saw him,he was his o,ld friendly self again, all signs of bronchitis had dis-appeared. Another triumph for Homcopathy !

Were these cures really faith cures, as enemies of Homcopathydeclare ? Faith may move mountains, but faith alone on mypart did no,t cure "Our Tim" when Cantharis was given for hiscystitis. ft required the properly indicated drug, the drug which,accordirg to homaopathic law, was the right drug, before anyimpression was made on the disease. The same with the bronchitisin the dog. Ir{ux uomica does no't cure every case of bronchitis ina dog. It only cured this dog's bronchitis as the symptoms, theextreme coldness, the extreme irritability-even turning againsthis dear mistress and biting her-pointed to l{ux uomica. So, inhuman beings. A remedy chosen according to the Law will cure,and cure rapidly, provided it is the right remedy.

To be owned by a cat is almost as responsible a job as beingowned and tyrannized over by a child : and cats, moreover, arevery difficult beings to treat when they are ill as they don't tellyou anything, and are so passive, so lacking in spunk that theyjust as lief die as make a fight for it, as dogs invariably do. Youhave to watch the feline tribe very carefully, both in health anddisease, or they quietly slip out of your life without much ado. Iexpect it is because they are secretive and ahvays like to walk bythemselves, that they manage to be almost dead before you haverealized that they are iIl. We had many alarums and excursionswith "Our Tirrr"-ore of the nearest shaves we had was lastwinter, when being in the throes of a domestic uph eaval, and thelatest one being a particularly unpleasant type of the "feminadomestica" who neglected and drove the poor cat out of doors inthe worst kinds of weather. Nobody had been told of his refusalto touch his food until it was palpable even to the luy mind thatsomethirg very serious was up : Tim refused to stir frorn hisarmchair; for days he just lay drowsily stretched out, would nottouch any tit-bits that were offered him. He passed by the dainti-est morsels of best English steak and liver which he could neverresist, as a rule. Ffe turned his nose up at rich crearny milk andonly wished to be left alone. All the normal body functionsseemed to be at a standstill, and he rapidly wasted away in a fewdays until he was but skin and bones, and so weak he couldbarely open his eyes or open his mouth and swallow his food. Hehad to be foncibly fed twice a day by hand. Two ounces of raw

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meat were cut up fine and pushed far back down his throat, orhe would just let it slide out of his mouth again. He was alsospoonfed with warrn milk with a dash of brandy in it.

There were very few symptoms except this utter laziness, thisrefusal to stir, this absolute do-nothing attitude and a refusal tobe kept warm, though he is naturally a beast who adores thelvarmest place. On these few symptoms he was given Sulphur 30night and morning and then Sulphur m. daily for nearly a fort-night. When he was at his worst he weighed less than 7 lbs., thenormal weight being r o* lbs. After a fortnight of anxiety hedecided it was no good resisting any more and he started to eatagain, and once he liked the taste of food again he became soravenous that he soon more than made up his loss of weight. Onesaw in the papers that at that time there was a general epidemicof cat influenza in the neighbourhood and practically r oo percent. died; so once again Homaopathy and careful nursing anclhand feeding saved a life, even though it might be only that of adumb animal.

Some time afterwards we had another alarum. The poor beasthad to be sent to, a, vet.'s to be boarded while his mistress wenton a long-needed holiday. He came back somewhat jaded andrather worse for wearrhaving lost half a pound in weight. Worsewas to fo'llow: one duy soon after his return, a large bald patchwas noticed on his back, a, round circular patch; by this time thesize of a five-shilling piece-and there was the ominous red scalyline on the circtrmference. Alas ! it was nothing else but the dreadedringworm of the hair. What to do, was the question. Send himback to the vet., or treat him at horne ? It was decided to giveFfomaopathy a chance again, and on studying Jahr's FortyYears' Practice, a very valuable old homaopathic book full of themost useful practical hints, we found this irrgg.rtion of paintinga ringworm patch with oil o,f lavender and apply the indicatedremedy as well.

Unfortunately we found the ringworm had spre ad a good dealfurther besides the large bare patch, but, nothing daunted, thetreatment was begun. The remedy chosen was the favourite oneof the late I)r. Burnett's for ringworrn, namely Bacillinum 3o,which was given twice a week at first and then once weekly. Heresponded very nicely, for which thanks be to old Jahr andBurnett for their pearls o,f wisdom.

The further spread of the skin disease was arrested at once, but

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it took about six weeks before the hair completely covered thebald patch. Baldness of the scalp due to X-ray treatment afterringworm takes six months before the hair covers the whole of thescalp again. This reminds me of. a case of ringworrn of the scalpin a child of seven years which one saw more than a decade ago.It had been treated scientifically for months without any sign of acure : the hair was all off and yet the parasite was still there, soactive indeed, that the writer became infected and developedringworm of the neck rvithin a few days. This child was givenBacillinum go and later Bacillinum m., and within a week of thefirst dose his hair started to sprout and the scales disappeared,and no further sign of the parasite was found, microscopically.

But reuenons d nos moutons) or rather to,our cats. As you haveseen, Homaopathy acts rapidly in cats. You only need to watchthem carefully and then choose the indicated remedy. Skindiseases in cats are common enough, alas ! they are such roversand you cannot keep them awzf t as in the case of dogs, fro,mother members of their tribe.

There was a beautiful black Persian cat I knew who developedmange, her whole trunk was covered. The vet. advised its destruc-tion. Do they ever advise anything else for cats if there is any-thing serious the matter with pussy ? The o,wner of the Persianwas willing to try Homaopathy and Sulphur 6 was given faith-fully night and morning for several weeks, followed by co,mpleterecovery.

One calne acrolss another cat in one's wanderings, a very oldtabby, who had developed a nasty growth from his ear in theshape of a black curved horn, about tHro inches long. He wasgiven T hu ja 30, daily doses for a week, and the horn promptlyfell off and had not recurred again six months later. One wishesthat there were hornaopathic vets. so that our pets could be savedinstead of being destroyed prematurely.

THE, COMN,,ION COLD AND ITS 'IREATME,NT

Tnr common cold is a disgrace and constant reproach to themedical profession. So far it has beaten all the efforts o{ thedoctors to conquer it. fn common cold I include all varieties froma mild nasal catarrh to a more or less serious systemic reactionwith pyrexia and general malaise, a rise of temperature and afeeling of being sick. The usual instructions of isolation at thefirst signs of a cold, by staying in bed for a couple of days on alight diet is good as far as it goes, it prevents the general spreadof infection, but it is just a remnant of the "leave it to nature anddo nothing else school" and certainly better than the recent moredrastic faCs of the bug-hunting, serum-injectirg apostles of thePasteur school who are a positive danger to the health of thefuture generation. No, there are safer, more expeditious means offighting and conquering the ubiquitous cold than the variousbroths concocted in the kitchens of the modern alchemists whoare looking for the elixir of life among the by-products of thetransmutation of healthy cells, the various degenerating forms ofbacteria, cocci, moulds and the rest.

The first line of defence should be the injunction, keep yourselffit by all the means at your command, doing graduated exercisesdaily in the open air, not just violent exercise once a week, lead-itg an open-air life whenever possible prornoting the action ofthe skin by open-air baths clad in the minimum of clothes. Butdo not nrake the mistake of becoming a nuisance to your fellowcreatures by selfishly insisting on opening all the. windows in abus or railway carriage in a cold wind or thick fog, for graduallybecomirg chilled by sitting still for hours in a coo,l or draughtyatmosphere often leads to neuralgia, colds and even pneumonia.It is sufficient to open the window in a compartment for a coupleof minutes every half-hour for purposes of ventilation. Do notspend too, much time in crowded, ill-ventilated halls or roorns,cinemas, theatres and dance halls during the season when coldsare prevalent. Eat and drink in moderation, do not partake toofreely of starchy foods, go slow on meat, take as much cleansing

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alkaline food as you can such as fresh fruit when available, addraw vegetable salads to your meals, drink vegetable juices dailysuch as spinach water, cabbage water, etc. A starchy diet of buns,cakes and pastries plus tinned meats, meat pies, and sausages pro,-duces acidity of the blood which is a favourable breeding groundfor a variety of diseases. The next defence line is the positivetherapy of the homrepathic medication. Therefore keep under ahomapathic physician who by constitutional treatment through-out the year will raise the resistance to colds and other acuteinfections. The last defence line for an acute cold is the prescrip-tion of the correct remedy for each attack.

Now there is no specific remedy for a cold. It depends on avariety of circumstances which particular remedy will cure yourspecial brand of cold each time, and the remedy which curedyour cold last So, may fail utterly at the next attack, thereforeconsider first and foremost what are the circumstances whichdetermine the remedy for different types of colds. First of all itdepends on the meteorological conditions or, in other words, orthe weather prevailirg on the duy you caught the cold. Nowfollows a list of remedies which are of value in fighting differentkinds of co,lds.

Chill or coryza after exposure to a draught : Aconite, Calcarea,Ferr, Hepar., Merc.

Exposure to draught when heated : Aconite, Carbo,. veg.rSilica.

Exposure to draught when perspiring : Bryonia.Exposure to rain : Ars., Bell., Calc., Dulc., Ferr., Nat. sulph.,

Rhus. tox.Sleeping in damp rooms or beds : Ars., Calc., Carbo. veg.r

I{at. sulph., Rhus. tox.Staying at seaside : Nat. mur., I{at. sulph.Standing in rvater : Rhus. tox.From becomirg wet : Acon., Bell., Bry., Calc., Nat. sulph.,

Rhus tox.From wet feet : Merc., Nat. carb., Nat. mur., Phos., Puls.,

Rhus., tox., Sep., Sil.Becomirg wet when overheated : Acon., Calc., Rhus. tox.Sudden chill from bathing in cold water when hot o,r havitrg

a cold shower when getting hot at games : Bellis-perennis.Working in clay or in water : Calc., Rhus. tox.Cold damp wind: Allium cepa.

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Hot weather of summer: Bapt., Bell., Bry.Chill in Spring : Ars., Carbo. veg., Gels., Lach., Psor., Sep.,

Sulph.Autumnal colds: Ars., Bapt., Bry., Nat. mur., Nux. vom.,

Rhus. tox., Sepia.Autumn and Spring : Ars., Lach., Psor., S.p.Caused by anxiety : Acute stage Aconite (developing suddenly

on the same duy); Ars., Gels. (in mild rela*itg weather); Tuberc.for recurring colds.

After excitement : Calc., Gels. fgnatia.From fright : Acon., Ars., Bry., Gels., fgr., Lyr., Merc., Nux.

vom., Op., Puls., Sil.From grief : Gels., fgt.After vexation : Acon., Ars., Bry., Gels., Merc., Nux. vom.,

Rhus. tox.After exposure to cold dry weather and cold winds : Acon.

(same day), Asarum (in thin neurotic persons), Causticum, Hepar,Kali carb., Nux. vom. (all two to three days after exposure).

Snowy weather : Puls., Rhus. tox.Cloudy weather: Bry., Cham., Chin., Dulc., Puls., Rhux. tox.

and Sulph.Cold damp weather: Ars., Calc., Dulc., Rhus. tox., Sulph.The psychological effects of emotions produce a lowering effect

on the constitution and resistance to chills. The commonlyaccepted notion is that colds are caught fro,m other people; butwhat about the individual who starts the ball rolling ? And whatexplanation is there for the people who are always taking colds,and their neighbours who' remain free fro,m colds ? The unknownfactoruc is, of course, the individual himself and the state ofhealth he is in.

Having decided that a particular cold is due to, certain pre-vailing weather conditions, you have to find out which of thesehalf a dozen or more weather remedies is the most similar to thetype of cold to be cured. So,me people always run to Aconite assoon as a co,Id or feverish chill develops and in England colds arevery rarely Aconite colds. Aconite is a chill coming on after colddry winds, it shows itself first in the evening, the patient is rest-less, anxious, fearful, with a very red flushed face, tossing aboutwith agony, skin is dry and hot without any sweat and the fearis usually the fear of dying without any signs of delirium. If

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these symptoms are present a feverish chill will be cured in a

few hours with Aconite.A more common remedy in England for early stages of colds

is Arsenic. Arsenic is always taking co,ld, suffers fro,m draughts,worse cold, damp weather, sneezing from every change in the

weather, cold begins in the nose and goes down into the throatand then to the chest; a hard dry tickling cough, thirst for sipsof warm water which relieve; is restless, weak and prostrated.

Baptisia is an acute, rapidly acting medicine, the patient is

attacked suddenly, is prostrated, stupid, it restless, tosses about,confused as if intoxicated, wakes up anxious and startled from

sleep; in his delirium thinks there are two or more of him; it is

a toxic case, an intensified Gels. conditio,n, which see later for

comparison. Remember the restlessnes,s is different fro,m the

Arsenic restlessness, there is less fear and more delirium in

Baptisia.Belladonna cold and chill comes on after a haircut or the hair

being washed; exposure to cold winds, in chubby children andvigorous, plethoric adults. The chill comes on with great sudden-ness, runs a rapid course and subsides as suddenly, is associatedrvith violent heat, brilliant red face and throat, intense redness,intense burning and throbbittg; there is no f.ear as in Aconite,there is delirium instead, fear of imagin ary things, violent

delirium.Some people like to alternate Aconite and Belladonna) this

should never be necess dry, as they are totally different in theiraction. Bryonia is frequently indicated in this damp, maritimeclimate of ours, cold comes on after every change in the weather.It comes on gradually, takes several days to develop, the patient

feels mouldy, gradually feeling worse; so different from Aconite,Beltadonna and Baptisia, which come on suddenly. The Bry. chill

starts with sneezing, running of the nose, aching through eyes and

head, gradually it goes down into the throat, bronchitis and even

pneumonia may follow; there is great thirst in feverish condi-tions for cold water, large quantities of water at long intervals.

The patient looks stupid, sleeps a lot, is confused, the face is

congested, mottled and purple, he does not want to move as

motion makes all the pains wo,rse, coughitg is painful, has to

press his hands against his chest and abdomen when he coughs;

remember always that Bryonia is worse from movement, is better

for pressure.

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Gelsemium colds and chills come on slowly and gradually; takeseveral days to develop, come on after getting over-heated inwarrn, mild winters or chills in summer; o'ften caused byemotional upsets, fear, grief, nerves, anticipation of trouble; theface is congested, mottled, purple, co'ld shivers running up thespine to the back of the head, sneezing with hot face and redeyes, lies still, does not want to stir or mo,ve, because of theheaviness and the weight of the limbs and body, wants to be leftalone, does not want to talk; there is no thirst, hot face with cold-ness of the extremities. Gels. is not so toxic as Baptisia, not sointensely red or violently delirious as Belladonna. Hepar sulph. islikely to get a nasal cold or croup every time he goes out in a coldnorth-east wind. Loss of voice and a dty, barking cough withhoarseness, cough is worse when putting hands and feet out ofthe bed; or there may be much sneezing with a runnitg of a clearwatery discharge which ends up by becomitg thick, yellow andoffensive; the cold develops slowly within twenty-four hours afterexposure. Aconite is usually the first prescription, if it does nothold, Spong,ia co'mes next, and then Hepar.

Allium Cepa comes on after exposure to a biting, co,ld dampwind, west, south-west or north-west winds in England, and isspecific remedy for colds with its own peculiar sympto,ms. I knewan o,ld lady, an aristocrat to, her fingertipt, well on in theeighties, who was a great believer in Allium Cepa for colds. Sheused to dispense it freely among her friends in her walks abroad,the stall-holders in the street markets, the flower-sellers of HydePark and Marble Arch, the crossing-sweepers, policemen andpostmen, and she swore she cured them very quickly of theircolds and coughs. Of course she was quite right, for they lvere allworkers sitting or standing at draughty street corners, exposed tothe vagaries of the weather, the cold damp westerly winds whist-ling down the streets and round the old squa,res. People standingin queues waiting for buses may often develop Allium cepa co,lds.The nose becomes raw, especially on the left side, the watery dis-charge is copious and produces sores on nose and lips fro,m theconstant drip, profuse flow of water from the left eye which ispainless and bland, later the throat and larynx get inflamed andraw, there is a tearirg pain in the larynx with each cough. Thepatient is hot and thirsty, the cold is wo,rse in the evenings andindoors like PuIs.

Mercurius, repeated catarrhs during winter in people who are

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constantly taking cold, which it cures at once, but if M erc. istaken too, often it makes the patient more sensitive to colds, itshould not therefore be taken more than twice during the winter,a deeper acting constitutional remedy must be taken instead o,fM erc. The symptoms are a burnirg in the face, a runnirg co,ld,profuse watery discharge, peculiar creeping chilliness followedby profuse sweating which does not relieve the catarrh; worsefrom the warmth of the bed. The Merc. cold starts in the headand travels down the throat and larynx to the bronchial tubes.

Nux uomica, gets a cold every time he is bilious and wheneverhis digestion goes wrong. These people should attend to theirdiet, eschew all rich food and live only on the simplest, avo'idcoffee, wine and cocktails and then the tendency to colds woulddisappear. Unfortunately their sto,mach is their god and youcannot often persuade them to give up the pleasure of the table;Nux uom. gets a chill after exposure to the dty east and north-east winds, the slightest current of air causes a catarrh which isworse in a stuffy, heated room, the nose is stuffed up at nightin the house, but runs freely if out of doors, splitting headache,great soreness of chest, feels extremely chilly, has to sit crouchedover the fire and has to pile on extra bedclothes, shivers on theslightest movement in bed, is extremely irritable and snappywith it.

Pulsatilla, subject to frequent colds with sneezing and stuffingup of the nose in the morning with thick, yellow-green discharge;in the evening there is much watery discharge with sneezing,pains in the face and through the nose, worse indoors and betterout of doors, clear thick mucus collects in the throat, loss of smelland taste is often present; there is no thirst, even if the tempera-ture is high.

Rhus tox. chills come on after getting soaked or wet, living ina damp house or sleeping in a damp bed, pains in the eyes, thenose is stopped up, the tongue is sore and raw and red, the thirstis violent, glands of the neck are swollen and the neck is stiff. Theco'ld may extend into the larynx with hoarseness, a dry teasingcough, great restlessness; all symptoms are worse on first movirgabout.

C amphor in a low potency is prescribed routinely by somedoctors in the early stages of a cold, on the indication of greatcoldness of the external surface of the bodv and sensation of coldwind blowing on it, in repeated doses half-hourly. It may abort a

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cold if given just as soon as the first indication appears; frompersonal experience I have found other drugs such as Arsenic,Bryonia, Nux Vomica or Pulsatilla o,f much greater use, givenaccordirg to the symptofils found in the early stages.

Natrum mnr.) the salt remedy, works very well in certaincolds, especially where there is a tendency to cold sores, herpeson the upper lip and in those people who are always lvorse atthe seaside. ft removes the tendency to colds; patients who areextremely sensitive to changes in the weather, wo'rse from changeof co,ld to warm; the catarrhal discharge is like the white of aneSS, the patient is chilly in the mornings round about ten o'clockand takes cold easily after sweating. The constitutional Ir{ a,t. mur.symptoms must be present such as weeping when annoyed, wo,rseconsolation, brooding over unpleasant occurrences, wo,rse bothextremes of heat and cold, craving for salt and a loathirg of fat.

KaIi bichromicum is a^ffected by exposure to damp co'Id, worsefrom the melting of the sno,w. The nasal discharge is copious,thick yellow, almost too sticky to blow out, accompanied bymuch pain at the root of the nose to the outer angle of the eye.

Such constitutional remedies as sulphur, calcarea, psorinuffi,tuberculinum may be necessary to break up a series of repeatedco'lds, the choice must be made on the symptoms founC in theparticular patient.

Just an example of the rapidity of the action of the correctlyindicated remedy. A refugee student at a residential horne forchildren was seen on a Friday morning in the autumn of rg38suffering from a feverish chill with a stuffy nose, dry mouth andslightly inflamed throat, temperature only gg.4o.History ofrepeated streptococcal throats was given. Aspirin had alreadybeen given four-hourly by the orthodox matron; hot lemondrinks and barley water were prescribed plus a tepid compressround the neck with saline gargles. As it appeared to be only amild infection the four-hourly medication of Aspirin was no,tinterfered with, I was somewhat curious as to what would hup-pen if the aspirin would really stop the infection; the next morn-irg the girl was very much \4/orse, the temperature which hadgone up, to nearly ro+" the previous evening was still ro3" at

9 a.m., she was drowsy, listless and thirstless in spite of her hightemperature and had passed a sleepless night; the throat was veryinflamed and congested, a typically septic throat; Pulsatilla 3o inrvatery solution to be taken tn'o-hourly was ordered; that evenirg

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the temperature went down to ggo, ofl Sunday morning the tem-perature was normal, the throat had cleared up, the patient washungry, mentally alert after a good night, had ordinary mealsthat duy and wanted to get up. Because o,f the previous historyof septic throats she was kept in bed another two days and sentaway to friends in the country for the rest of the week. Therewas no recurrence of the septic throat during the whole of thatwinter. The girl herself as well as the matron were extremelyastonished at the rapidity of the cure and feeling of well-beingwhile the medicine was acting. This quick recovery made quite astir in that community and Hornaopathy became n'ell establishedthere as a result.

Colds and feverish chills can be cured rapidly in the home byour remedies and much serious ill-health can be avoided in con-sequence, if luy people would familiarise themselves with thesedrugs, a few o{ which have been mentioned in detail in thischapter, but do not change the medicine too frequently, observethe symptoms carefully and compare them with the symptomsof the drugs and, after having found the drug which is most likethe variety of cold present, dissolve it in half a tumbler of water,take a teaspoonful every two hours until improvement sets in, thenlengthen the intervals to four hours and stop when the cold hascleared up. If there is no improvement in z4 hours, or there is achange in the character of the chill by the next duy, look up yourremedies again and prescribe accordingly. Therefore the nghtway of treating a co,ld is : observe the patient, know your reme-dies properly, and then good luck to you, you will be successfuland gain a reputation for curing colds in your own immediatecircle of friends.

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Ar a discussion the other d^y I found that the question ofpotencies and of potentisation was no,t clearly understood andwas a constant source of mystification to the enquirirg minds ofpeople of ordinary intelligence.

When drugs were first tested, each one singly on a group ofhealthy subjects-mainly doctors in Hahnemann's day-it wasfound that each drug produced a certain number of reactions orsymptoms, peculi arly belongitg to that drug or medicinal sub-stance; and no other drug, however similar it appeared to thesuperficial observer, yielded the same number or variety of symp-to'ms, that is, they were specific for that particular drug.

Let us take the analogy of a white man going to an islandin the Antipodes. At first, all the islanders look alike to him; butafter a shorter or longer stay, accordirg to his po,wers of observa-tion, he begins to notice differences in the shape of the features,the nose, the ear, the mouth and the gait, until at long last, heperceives that each one is an individual and different from all therest. It is the same with the hundreds of drugs which have beenproved, worked out and a scheme drawn up; all by experimentson healthy men and women, the differences and the similaritiesbetween the drugs have been co,mpared and contrasted, so thatthey are individualised drugs, suitable for sick persons who, whenseized with an illness, which is a departure fro'm the normal,present certain definite symptoms and reactions which varyaccorditg to the individual attacked. In other words, you treat,not the pneumonia of Mr. or Mrs. Smith, but Mr. or Mrs. Smithrvho has pneumonia; a vast difference.

The orthodox school of physicians on the other hand does notrecognise these particular vital reactions of the different drugs;they only recognise and make use of the chemi cal, mechanicaland physiological actions of each and every drug. For example :too much hydrochloric acicl is present in the stomach, thereforethe chemical antidote must be given in the shape of an alkalineremedy. The bowels do not act; stubborn and hard frces are

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found, then liquid paraffin is prescribed for its mechanical actionin softenitg the frcces. Or the uterus is bleeding, a remedy isgiven rvhich physiologically produces a constriction of the dilatedblood vessels of the organ as well as contraction of the muscula-ture; Ergot does this in physiological doses and therefore it isprescribed for its physiological action in all uterine hremorrhages.

The most vital action of medicinal substances or drugs has notbeen recognised by the medical school; that ir, the dynamicaction which is brought out by the process of potentisation whichmeans, making more powerful or giving power. Hahnemann, byproving all his remedies on healthy individuals, found out theliving and vital reactions. When he examined people with acutediseases, who each presented definite symptoms belongirg to theparticular person attacked by u certain disease, he compared thesick person crying out to be cured and the d*g which hadthe power to cure, as shown by the symptoms it produced in thehealthy person. When he recognised the drug similar to thedisease before him, he gave that similar or rnost similar drug atfirst in material doses, drop doses as a rule. He found very soonthat therc followed with the similar drug a period of greater orsmaller worsenitg of the symptoms; the negative phase of themodern pathologist. In order to reduce this negative phase, thispreliminary worsenirg or aggravation of the disease, he began todecrease each dose. Being a scientist trained in exact methods asa mathematician and an analytical chemist, he did it, as I havealready explained, accorditg to mathematical principles by sub-dividing each dose on the r in I oo scale, and thoroughly vibrat-itg or shaking or stirring up the drug and the diluent used ateach step. He went on experimenting by dividing and sub-dividing each drug on the r in I oo scale and discovered the morehe divided the dose, the more powerful became the action of thedrug.

He found in f.act that the lesser became the greater. A vitaland most irnportant truth. He discovered thus the dynamis, thetranscendental action of each drug. "Can this be possible ?" yotsay. To the man steeped in materialism, this seems foo'lish to saythe least; the lesser cannot be the greater. And yet this same man,this same do,ctor who laughs at the possibility of being able tocure with doses of one millionth of a grain, or even a smallerquantity, this doctor shakes in his shoes at the thought of small-pox and passes on his fears to all the rest of credulous mankind.

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At the mere breath of the word smallpoX, all rush off to be vac-cinated as a preventive, even though smallpox may be miles awayat the other end of the county. And the causative agent of small-pox is a virus, an agent so small that even the strongest lenses ofthe most po,werful microscope canno,t make it visible; it is an in-visible ultramicroscopic organic cell. Do you understand whatthat means ? A bacillus which shows up moderately plainly in amicroscope, is so small that it would take 4oo millions of bacilli,lying side by side, to cover an ordinary postage stamp. And avirus is infinitely smaller than one bacillus. The doctors areafraid of smallpox and so is every sensible person, and withreason; for a severe case of smallpox is a truly awful spectacleand extremely fatal as well. And is not everybody scared of diph-theria, of the minute bacillus causing this disease, so deadly to, somany children, which is prevalent everywhere; all the healthofficials rush about and are so busy getting everybody protectedagainst it, they do not laugh or sneer at the minuteness of thisorganism; they have felt the power of these minute germs. Yes,they are all disease-minded, they fear diseases and their causes,the minutest cells. But they do not follow up this argument to itslogical conclusion; if the infinitesimal organism has so muchpower for evil, why canno't an infinitesimal quantity of a drughave as much power fo,r good ?

There are all kinds of viruses, viruses causing diseases inhumans, measles, mumps and smallpox, etc., there are virusescausing diseases in animals and others causing diseases in plants.We do not know how they act, but we are content to accept thef.act that they do act and cause serious harm. And these samepeople who ackno'wledge the power inherent in these minutest ofliving forms, the viruses, will not recognise the radio-activepower, the dynamic forces residing in and brought about by thespecial method of preparation of the potentised drugs. We knowmuch more about them than we know about viruses. We knowhow the potencies are made; we know the action of each drug;they have been proved, and it has been shorvn, that they are ableto produce definite reactions, and they have been proved notonly in health but in diseases as well; the similar potentised drugby the forces freed by the special preparation by trituration orsuccussion accorditg to definite mathematical rules, cures thepatient with the similar disease completely and rapidly and easily.The large dose, the material dose of a drug only acts in three

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dimensions, but the vitally prepared, the dynamised drug, acts inthe fourth dimension, and because it is smaller, certain forcespreviously chained inside the cell have been freed and thesevibrations, millions and millions of them, have been set free bypotentisation and have become the greatest power for good in theworld of disease and ill-health.

The lesser in quantity has beco,me the greater in quality.The simillimum drug, the drug most like the disease which asks

to be cured at the moment the doctor sees it, has acted for yearslike that, acts now and will act in the same way as long as thisearth stands, for it is a law of nature, not a fiction of the brain, isnot ephemeral, unless this law is forgo,tten and spurned bymaterialistic doctors.

In a certain philosophical school of medicine which flourishedin a sane pre-Hitlerite Germany, a number of investigatorsprobed into this question of the power of the minute; they madehundreds of experiments with small, smaller, and smallest dosesof metals on growing plants and proved the truth of all I havesaid just now. They proved that comparatively large, materiallyIarge doses of metals killed the plant or plants, or strongly in-hibited their growth; smaller or mediurn doses were more or lessindifferent to the plants while the minute and minutest doses ofthe metals would stimulate the growth and the smaller the dosethe more the growth was stimulated. So,me metals would stimu-late the growth of leaves, others the growth o,f the flowers andothers would st'imulate and encourage the formation of the fruitand seeds. Always it was the smallest which H'ere most active instimulating the plant to do its best.

Thus the truth o'f the Hahnemannian assertion that it is aprinciple of nature that small doses stimul ate, while large doseskill or inhibit, lvas proved to be correct by these experiments onplants. Unfortunat.ly, these telling experiments, these importantinvestigations, have not been published yet; one only hopes theywill be published some time in the near future.

The lesser in size and quantity has once again been proved tobe the greater in quality and power.

I grant you, these potencies are mystifying, bewildering tominds which usually deal with sizeable things, things they cansee, feel and touch. A finite mind cannot understand the meremathematical fraction of a potentised drug. For example : the6th po'tency, usually written down simply by the numeral 6, or

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sometimes 6c, means mathematically r over r 2 noughts, or r over6 double noughts, or I 006, as the older arithmetical books showit. The I zth potency means, mathematically written, r over 12double noughts, and is prepared in twelve different stages, eachstage being made from the precedirg one by diluting one drop ina hundred drops and shaking or succussing violently at each step.The 3oth potency means I over 30 double noughts, a figure afinite mind cannot take in and yet, when you are a physiciandealing with sick people, you find in practice, in chronic diseasesyou will need all po'tencies, that the third centesimal potency willwork for a certain time, then it will cease to act then you givethe 6th potency, it will take hold of the same patient and takehim along the road to health. After a time the 6th potency mayfail and you n'ill try a higher one, and once again he improves;then the patient sticks once more; you go a step higher, you goup to the 3oth potency say, and again there is a steady improve-ment; for a time you go on giving the 3oth potency and then itfails to act. If the patient still presents the same symptoms, al-ways co,mpare the symptoms of the patient with the symptoms ofthe drug at each stage, then go higher again and give the eoothpotency. And so on, you gradually increase the potency, that is,lessen the quantity of the drug; but increase the radio-activevibrations; the quality of the drug and the patient will improvemore and more at each raising of the po,tency. And so in chronicdiseases, you may have to go up and up the ladder, until thedesired goal is reached : that is, health. If you had started with ahigh potency, you would have set up such violent reactions, forthe vibrations would have been too numerous and so powerfulas to cause such a violent dynamic shock as to almost annihilatethe patient, while if you begin low and go up step by step, youget no vio,lent shocks, flo vio,lent reactions, just an agreeable cure.High potencies are dangerous things and as such ought to betreated with great respect.

If you know anything about astronoffiy, you will more easilyunderstand and grasp the transcendental nature of a high pot-ency. For the knowledge of the stars, the course of the stars isbased on the most abstruse science of mathematical calculations.The light of the star you see at night, twinklirg in rhe night rky,has taken sometimes thousands of years travelling through spacebefore the light reaches your vision. It is unbelievable but true.

The astronomer can prove all kinds of abstruse mathematical

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problems to you, the homaopathic physician is in advance of thenecess ary scientific instruments which may prove his case, thatthe smaller the drugs the greater is their power. But the proofsof his contention that the law of similars is correct, that the lawof potentisation is correct, are coming along, and sooner or latereveryone will know and have to acknowledge the correctness ofthis statement that the lesser is the greater in medicine.

I leave you to it now. I have tried to explain by precept andby many examples how Homaopathy works out in practice, andwhat Ho,maopathy is : namely, an individualist medicine, atherapy, a treatment by medicines taken fro,m the three king-doms : animal, vegetable and mineral; treating the totality ofthe person concerned, that is treating the physical body throughthe etheric body and by means of the higher potencies reachingout to the astral body and even going as far as the Egr principle,the Higher Self ; and thus gradually, stage by stage , z true Healer,who is led by intuitior, can touch and eradic ate Karmic Sin;through prayer and fasting, with the co-operation and the truedesire of the patient, all the devils can be cast out. A high idealwhich is difficult to achieve.

A psychologist needs time to study his patients individually,their reactions and response to multiple tests. This is well knownand acknowledged to be necessary. A homaopathic physician isa psychologist, frvy, even a psychiatrist, for he studiesnot only the coarse reactions of a patient to his surroundings,but also traces the vagaries of the character, the aversions, thehates and the loves and the desires, and surely he must be giventhe nght and opportunity to heal and cure his patient by theremedy which shows and has produced similar changes andreactions on the healthy person o,rl whom it was first tested out.That is Homreopathy, individual, spiritualised vibrationalmedicine.

MEDICAL RE,FE,RT,NCE,S

ALLEN, H. C., Dr., Keynotes ofLeading Remedies, r 82, r go.

ALLEN, H. C., Dr., Materia Medica,56 .

BARKER, J. ELLIS, Iuliracles ofHeal ing, Br .

BELL, .IAIVIES 8., Dr., Diarrheaand Dysentery, I oB.

BOENI\TINGI{ALTSENI, FRANZVON, r 42.

BOYI), W. E., Dr., ro.BURDON, SANDERSOI.-I, PRO-

FESSOR, r 65.BURFORD, G., D.., r 66-7.BURNETT, J. C. , D. . , 17, 70, 84,

96 , gB -9 , r o r , 166 , 196 .CARLETON, EDMUND, D'.,

H omeopathy in M edicine andSur ,qery , ro r , r48 , t64 .

CLARKE, JOIIN H., D.., 46, r 38,r42 , r56-8 , rgo .

DUI{HAM, CAROL, D.., r42.DRYSDALE, Dr., 165.ECLECiT'IC SCHOOL, 92.I'ARRINGDON, PROFESSOR, r 4e.FRANZ, Dr., r 47 .GUE,RNSEY, E., Dr., zg.HAHNEMANN, Org anon, r 5.

HERING, Dr., Potentization, B.HOYLE, PETRIE, Dr., r47.HUNT, Dr., r 66.JAHR, G. H. G., Forty Y ears Prac-

t i ce , r96 .KENT, JAT,{ES TYLER, D,.,

lVlateria tr{edica, r90.KEI{T, JAMES TYLER, D..,

Repertory, 24, 50, r rT, r 38, r 42,r 7 3 - 5 , r 7 g , r B z .

LANGDON BROWN, ro.LISTER, B r .NASH, E. B., D.., Leaders in Home-

opathic Tl terapeut ics, rBz, rgo.OSLER, PROFESSOR, Principles

and Pract ice of Medic ine, l7-r B.PAS'[ EUR, B t, r gB.PULFORD, A. & T., Drs., Home-

opathic Leaders in Pneurnonia, rB.RIDPATH, Dr., 83.SIMMELWEISS - OF VIENNA,

B r .SHERBINO, Dr., r 65-6.SHULDHAM, I).., r 66.SIMPSON, D. . , Br .SWAN, D.., r 65-6,WII.,KINSON, D. GARTI{, Dr., 96.

INDEX

ABSCESS, r 63.Aconi tum napel lus, 2, r4, r I3, 179,

2OO, 2O2 .Ad rena l i n . 2 r .Aescul t ts h i l t pocastanum, | 42.Agar Agarr 59.A l l i um cepc t , 2oz .Ant imon ium ta r ta r icum, 67 , I78 .Apis mel l i f ica, r , 6, 39, tS6-7, I93.Arn ica n ton tana, 2o-2 , 27 , 3 I , I I o ,

| 45-53, r 68, r7 | .Arsenicum albun' t . , | 4, 29, 67, r I3- I5,

2 0 r , 2 o 4 .

ART'HRITIS, r j4-6, I 39.Aurum rne ta l l i cun l , Io .AUTO-VACCINE, I66.

Bacillinuffi, r 96-7.Baci l lus Morgan, 32, ro7.Bapt is ia , 24 , 3g , r 68 , r7 r , 2or -2 .Baryta carb. , 43, 68-7o, r2S.Bel ladonna, 7 , B, r 5, 34, 3B-4 r ,

45-7, 49, 50, 52, 2Or-2.BLOOD POISONING, 156-7, t7r .BODY ODOUR, 35.

BOILS, r 59-60.BRONCHIAL CATARRH, IOO.BRONCIHIECTASIS, r 86-7.BRONCHII' IS, r 84.BROI\{CHO PNEUMOI.IIA, r6, 49,

r77-83.BRUISING, 20,Bryon ia a lba , z , 12 , 30 , Ioo , Tr4 ,

t33*4 , r38 , r7g-Bo, 20r , 2o4.

Ca lad iu rn segu inum, ro r .Calcarea carbonica, 26, j r , 33, 42-3,

93-4.C alendula off icinalis, 27 , r 47-8,

r 5 o - r . r 5 3 , r 5 7 , r 6 3 .Camphora , r92 t zo3 .C an thar is , t 54 , r 93 , r gB.Capsicumr 52.Carbo uegetabi l is , 30.CARBUNCLE, 6, r 59-6 r .CATALEPSY, t72-2 , r75 ,C austic uff i , r S4-5.CELLULITIS, t iq .CEREBRAL AN,IEMIA, 3.Chamomil la, 46, 52, 7Z-5.Chel ido 'n ium majus, r r5.C H I L L , z , 6 , 9 2 .C hina of f ic inal is , r o7-8.CHOLERA, 13 .Cimici{uga racemosa,, go, r 38.Cina, 46-7.Cistus canadensis, I ro.Co {Jea c ruda ,22 -9 .COLDS AND TREATMENT,

200.COLIC, r r j - r4.COL IT IS , 32 -2 , r oe -8 , r r r .Colocynthis, 32.COi\GESTIVE HEADACHE,C oniwn nta.culatum, 97 .C oquelucl t inuf f i t r 6.Crocus sat iua, 94.Crotalus horr idusr 39.

DIARRHCEA, ro4, r 06-9, I rg-r 4.DIPHTHERIA, r5 - r7 .Drosera rotundifol ia, I6, 6g-4, 67.Dulcamara, 42, r37, r go.DYSENTERY, IOB.

EARACHE, 44, 47-52.EMPHI|SEMA, r79.EPILEPSY, r r6-eo.Ergot , g2, zo7.EUSTACIIIAN CATARRH, 46, 49.

FALLING| 7 4-5.

ASLEEP remedies,

Ferrum phosphoricum, 52.FIBROIDS, B3-5.Fluoricunt. acidum, 7 3.

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Fraxinus americana, 27, BS.FURUNCULOSIS, r59-6 r.

GASTRO-ENTEI{ITIS, I r4.Gelsemium, | 4, 5 r , 2o2,GERMAN MEASLES, 33, 45-6.G l o n o i n € , 5 2 , 9 r .GOITRE, r og.Graphites, gB.Gttnp ow der , r 56-8.

H.1EMORRH,A.GE, 2r*2,84, g 2, g4,2o-7 .

H amamelis uir ginica, I 37 .II ecla laua, 96-7 .Hepar sulphuris calcareum, 40, 43,

5z r 78 , r r 5 , 2oz .HERPES, r57 .HIGH POTENCIES, 2-4.HORMONES, ro.Hydrastis canadensis, r oz.HYDROCEPHALOID, 66.Hyoscyamus niger, 12.Hypericum perforatum, r48, r 5 r,

r 53-5, t64.HYSTE,RIA, 7.

II\FLUENZA, r3-r 4, 92.I .pecacuanha, 3o-r , 33.

KaI i b ichromicum, 40, rZ2, 2o4.r oB. Kal i carbonicun'r . , 30, 63, 69, | 24,- r - '

r B 7 , r 8 g - 9 o .KIDNEY DISEASE, 6.

52 .Lac can inurn , 40 , 5o- r .Laches is , 22 , 37 , 3g , 40 , 9o- r , 93 ,

r o g , t 2 2 , r 3 0 .Ledum, r 5 z-3.Li l ium t igr inum, Bo.LUMBAGO, rg2.Lycopodium, 33, 27, 40, 43, 50,

r r 6-1 9, | 4 j -4, r 78, r 87.

I l [acrotin, r 3B.Iu lagnesia carbonica, r05, 175,IV{ASTOID, 52, 5B-9.MEASLES, r 5 , 62 .MEIBONiI IAN CYSTS, 99-roo.MENINGI ' r IS, 6.MENOPAUSE , 87 , Bg, g r -2 .MENORRHAGIA, 92.NIENSTRUAL PAIN, BT.hlercur ius, 4o, r3rr r68, 202-3.fuIercurius bin-iodatus, 38, 40, 44-6,

49-50.Mercurius dulcis, 4t.Mercur ius proto- iodatus, 37, 40.I\, IUMPS, 17, 92.

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NAR COLEPSY, 17 z -2 .Nat rum n tur ia t i cum, 7o- r , 85 , r04 ,

rog , 2o4 .NECK, STIFF, rg7-8.N i t r i cum ac idum, r r 5 .Nux moscha ta , 176 .Nux Vomica, 2t 3, 14, 32, 36, g4,

r r 5, rg4*5t 203--4.

OEDEMA, 6 .OTI f IS MEDIA, 46 , 49 , 52 .

P enic i l l in , r 5.PERINEUM, 27 , t 6z .PERITONIT IS , 6 , t 7 r .Per tuss in , t6 - r7 .Phosphorus, 2r-2, 43, 65-6, tz6-7,

r 78 , I Bo - r .Phytolacca decandra, 36-7, 4o-2,

e 7-8.Pi locarpin, r7.PITUITARY, I o.Plumbum metal l icuff i , e6.PNEUIvIONIA, r 7-r B, 3 r, 69, r 87.POTENCIES, eo6-r o.PREGNANCY, 24, 87.PREGNANCY (DIET) , 25.PROLAPSE, 79-Bo, 93.PROVINGS, 7-8.Psorinum, 26.

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PTOMAINE POISONII.,IG, 17 r.PUPILS DILATED, 7.PURPIJRA, r 09, 17 r .PYELITIS, r7 r .Pyrogenium, t65-7, r 69-7 r .

QUINSY, 4t .

Radium, r 09, r 57 .Radium brornide, r o, r oB.RFIEUMATISM, 6, 33, 35, 90, ro8,

r 29-42.RHEIIMATOID ARTHRITIS, r 43.Rhododendron, r 38.Rhus toxicodendron, | 2, 3o-_r, 33,

43 , r 33 -5 , r 38 , l 68 , rT r t r g7 -4 ,203.

RICKETS, 66.RING\,VORM, r 96.Rumex crispus, r go.Rutu graueolens, 3 r.

Sab ina ,94 .Salicyl icun'L acidumr r3rr r39.Santoninumr 46.

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SCARLET FEVER, T-8, 15.SCLEREMA NEO-NATORUM,

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S crophularia nodosa, 66.S elenium, r r r , r 4o-r .Sep ia , 26 -7 ,3 r r 7g -B r , 93 .SEPTICEN{IA, r 65.Silicea, S4-5, 43, 60, 64, 66-8, r63.SIMILLIMUM, 6.SINUSITIS, 2 .Spigel ia, 5r .S pongia tosta, 2oz.Staphisagria, 62.STAPHYLOCOCCUS, r59.STINGS, r , 6 .Stramonium, 7 2-2.SULPHONAIVIIDE, r 5, r B.Sulphur, 3Z-4, 4z-3, 67, 77, Bo-r ,

84, EB*g, 93-4, roo, ro3-4, r ro,r r 5 , r 34 -5 , r 4 r , r 7O- r , r 78 ,r 85-6, 196-7.

SWELLING, r , 2a , 22-2 , T17.Symphytunr Officinale, r52.

T annic A cid, r 54.T ar entula cub ensis , 6-7 , r 6o-3 .T ar entula his pania, 7 .' IENO-SYNOVITIS, 164.THROAT, 3j, 36, Zg, 42-3.T hu ja occide'ntal is, gg, I o I , rg7 .TOBACCO POISONII*IG, ror.TONSILLITIS, 36, 38, 4r-2.TONSILS, 94.Tr in i t r in , g r .TUBERCULAR PERITONITIS,

r r r , r 4 o .Tubercul inunt, 3, 26, 54-67, 73, 85,

roo , r 40 , r 85 .TUBERCULOSIS, 57.TUN{OURS, 83, 96-7.TYPHOID,

' r 2- I3.

ULCERS. 166.(Jrt ica urens, r54.URTICARIA, 94.

VACCINATION, 6o.VITAMINS, Io, 29.VOMITING, I26.

WEN, 98.WHITLOW, 163.WHOOPING COUGH, 16-17, 62.

Zincum metallicuffir r lB.