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To this august assemblage no explanation is needed that a "G.P"
does not stand for general paretic, nor even for grateful patient,
for in the I.H.A. (alias Internally Happy Altruists, or Intensely
Homoeopathic Aggregate, or Immediately Helpful aids, or whatever
each of you feels the I.H.A. symbolizes) all your patients are grateful.
No, "G.P" stands for that precious anachronism in big cities to-day,
the General Practitioner. You will not accuse me of needing Gels.
or Arg. Nit, or even Lyc. or Sil., when I assert that the G.P. of
the best homoeopathy has his "nervous moments".
At these critical times not only the life of the patient is at stake,
and the doctor's reputation, but the furtherance of faith in homoeopathy
in some small but devoted purlieu.
Case I. Woman, 46, complains of swelling
and stiffness of the joints, markedly< in wet weather, bathing
or even drinking water; bitter taste, bright yellow coat on rear
of tongue; right-sided flatus,< on walking, can't bear tight
clothing, loose a.m. stools; violent impulse to harm her children;
suicidal, has to restrain herself; red naevi. Natrum sulph. 10M,
one dose.
Marked improvement for two months, when return of symptoms called
for repetition.
Case II. Woman, 84, diabetic; 4 plus
sugar in urine cleared and blood sugar of 205 lowered a year ago
by diet and Phos. 1M, one dose, followed in a few days by Dig. 10M
because of slow intermittent pulse, nausea and frequent urination.
She then went south for the winter and felt so well she omitted
medication. On returning she had sudden terrific diarrhoea, scanty
tools, collapse, no sweat, dry mouth, blueness, icy fingers and
toes, cold yet insisted on uncovering; acetone 4 plus, sugar 2 plus,
apparently dying though not comatose. Camphora 10 M., one dose.
Acetone cleared sugar reduced to least trac; sat up in chair in
twenty-four hours.
Case III. Woman, 40; one child; hysterectomy
years ago; has sudden profuse thick yellow burning leucorrhoea,
two day's duration, with bearing own sensation. Craving for sours
since onset; all-gone sensation, nausea. Violent burning urination
and frequency; pain up the rectum on urinating. Smear 4 plus for
gonorrhoea. Sepia 10 M, one dose. Second smear on third day, 1 plus.
Distress almost gone. Smears at one-week intervals all negative
thereafter. Monthly checks since negative. General health better
than in years.
Case IV. Man, 42, scalp eczema for
many years, spreading. Patches circinate, red rims, dry scaly, itchy,
mostly in the late afternoons; right lumbar backache, urine negative.
Desires sweets lately. Irritable, marked inferiority complex; blood
pressure low. Lyc. 10 M., one dose.
Two weeks latter red rims to eruption gone, less itch, looking and
feeling better.
Case V. Boy, 3, treated by sulfanilamide
by suburban M.D. for streptococcus throat. Local condition and fever
controlled, but child dwindling, low persistent fever, very low
white count. Can't bear top button of shirt closed, wakes from sleep
or nap, cross and miserable. Left tonsil swollen and purplish, pain
on empty swallowing, desires cold drinks, choking on eating. Pulse
120; yellowish faeces; mitral systolic murmur (recent). Grandparents
persuaded mother to try homoeopathy. Lachesis 1 M, one dose.
No fever after second day. Normal rosy checks returned. Pulse 108.
Throat better and choking gone. In one-week murmur gone, pulse 90,
child active and gaining; thriving steadily ever since.
Case VI. Man, 38, with oozing, itching,
cracking eczema of scrotum and groins, which had resisted salve
and x-ray for months. Stout and gaining weight. Marked aversion
to sweets of late. Worried, constipated, with knotty stool covered
with mucus. Chilly recently. Cracks of fingertips in winter for
three years. Graph. 2c., one dose.
Returned in three weeks, better but relapsed last two days. Graph.
10 M., one dose. Not heard from for eight months. Recently wife
came for herself with message, "It was like a miracle. No more eruption
or trouble since."
Case VII. Man, 33, life-long
"migraines", start with eye symptoms; sour burning from mouth to
stomach; sour vomiting after which he can eat again; must move with
headache. They come on after he gets home from mental strain or
on days of rest. Iris v,. 50 M., one dose, controlled each one but
did not stop tendency.
Chronic case study came to Graph. After the 1 M dose no vomiting
or migraine for months.
Case VIII. Man, 48, diagnosed as multiple
sclerosis by full tests including spinal tap; recommended to try
homoeopathy. Case repertorized to Alum., Phos. And Sil. Alumina
1 M., one dose.
Relief moderate for weeks. Repeated. Progressing slowly but favorably
three months later. Alum, Silicata may follow.
Case IX. Sea captain, 64, walked
in my office with a pulse of 180, B.P. 188/70, complaining of choking
spells at night, on waking, with loss of breath, Can't wear stiff
collars. Craves air. Burning feet. Lach 10M, one dose.
Pulse 90, but irregular, fibrillation. No more chokes. B.P. 140/70.
No decompensation. Cought cold in chest muscles: intercostals neuralgia.
Bell. 1M relieved. After this Lach. Repeated did not take hold.
Time of fibrillation, weak pulse, < at night; restless. Aur,
2c, one dose. Little result.
Crataegus ox 30, four times daily for a week, gave slow steady improvement.
Question: Would Crataegus 10M., one dose, help more? What experience
have you had with Crataegus high? It is one of the remedies I have
not succeeded with high.
Case X. Man, 42, very thin, dark.
Spitting of bright blood by thimblefuls. Occasional cough with green
thick sweet sputum. Weak feeling in chest. X-ray shows active bilateral
tbs., one healed cavity. Fever each night 99-100 F. Sputum positive.
Marked double mitral murmur since a child. For financial and family
reasons this man must work. Extra feeding, air and rest advised.
Stannum 2c., one dose.
No more blood spitting after second day for three months. Gain of
over two pounds. Cough and sputum stopped. No longer feels tired.
Carried for over three years on stann. and Alumen at two to three
months intervals (with one dose of Iodum for a cold), never stopping
work except for two week's vacation yearly. No blood spitting in
over a year. Holds his increased weight. Chest negative for acute
findings. No fever or sputum.
You will get nervous moments if I go on farther. But fifteen years
of strict homoeopathy has taught me, in nervous moments, to study
your cases and your material medica more; to go into training to
keep your self fit and intuitive, and then homoeopathy will not
fail you.
NEW YORK, N.Y.
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