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DISCUSSION.
Dr. Grimmer: I want to commend the doctor for the
way she takes her case. Old Dr. H.C.Allen used to say,"A case well
taken is nine-tenths prescribed for" and in every one of these cases
the remedy was very clearly mapped out when you heard the doctor's
discussion. It was classical. That is one of the things this paper
teaches us. Go into your case. Get the thing in its completeness,
and you will find it is relatively easy to fit the remedy.
On the heart case the doctor spoke about, I do not know that she
is to be criticized for giving the Crataegus especially, and evidently
the prescription was justified by the results. The man is some better.
You cannot expect too much from such cases. However, I would have
thought of some other remedies, somewhat analogous to the symptoms
of Lachesis, Ammonium carb, Opium and Carbo veg.
Dr. Bond: The case was very interesting to me because I had a heart
case similar to that just before coming up here. The man was very
short of breath and would not tolerate his collar buttoned or even
the waistband tied around his wait. It was a typical Lachesis case
apparently. I gave him the 50,000th---he had had the 1000th before---and
it did not help him. I waited quite a while and gave him C.M, and
it did not help him. Then I resorted to my strictly "heart" remedies
and gave this man 3x Digilatis and Crataegus tincture, and there
again I departed from the path a little bit and alternated those
doses---two tablets of Digitalis 3x and 10 drops of Crataegus tincture
every four hours. The man is getting well. I don't know why.
Dr. Dixon: I would like to ask Dr. Hubbard to recite to me the rule
on some of the remedies that cover the feet and say why she did
not give one of those when Lachesis failed to clear it up.
Dr. Hubbard: You mean one of the others? Lachesis has that effect.
Well, I could not see indications for it. I do not remember the
rule.
Dr. Dixon: Just taking it by and large, I don't know the patient
and you do, why would not a dose of Medorrhinum have done something
in there?
Dr. Hubbard: They say all sea captains need it. He certainly did
not get over on his hands and knees.
Dr. Nixon: I just wondered if a nosode would not have done something
in that case. There is any underlying reason why Lachesis did not
clear it up. That is the angle I got on it. I was wondering.
Dr. Stevens: Would Sulphur have done it?
Dr. Hubbard: I thought about Sulphur, but I did not see any other
symptoms for it, except that one. He was a most tidy, orderly. Calm,
sensible person. Doesn't go in for sweets; doesn't have any emptiness
or diarrhoea or any thing. I could not see it, but it may be there.
Dr. Moore: Dr. Hubbard may feel badly about her repetition.
Dr. Dixon here has just got a wagonload of books from Texas, a most
wonderful layout of homoeopathic literature, and anything he has
I get for the asking, so I am delving into all of these things.
Lately I have been going over the homoeopathic literature for 1873
and 1874. Through all of this reading---and I have had to do a lot
of it for a long time---there is no one except Boenninghausen and
Dr. Dixon that use nothing under the two hundreds---just those two
fellows. I don't know of anyone else. You will find all sorts of
irregularities all along the line in our best prescribers in curing
cases.
I got from Dr, Boger once the idea of giving Merc. cor; give it
200 three days and wait a week and give it 203 for three days.
Certainly Hahnemann didn't do it, but his friend, Boenninghausen,
and later his friend, Dr. Dixon, have been at it.
Dr. Dixon: I don't have to take that man's abuse if I don't want
to. I can answer him. (Laughter).
Dr. Engle: I feel as if I am in the hall of science. Dr. Hubbard
invited us to "jump on her". I don't feel I am able to jump on her.
All I am asking for is knowledge and a little information as to
whether when she prescribes Crataegus 30 in those doses, she considered
Crataegus 30 the divided dose or whole potency.
Furthermore, I would like to know why she repeated Crataegus 30
so often.
Dr. Stevens: May I say that, through the influence of somebody who
was a good deal older and knew more about homoeopathy than I, I
have tried Crataegus in what is approximately the 1x. and sometimes
I give one dose a day of that, in cases especially where there was
breathlessness. I think that is one of the special indications,
the very difficult breathing. Usually I give just One dose a day
of the 1x for a time. As it gets better, I stop it.
Dr. Hubbard: Dr. Engle delights me by putting me on the spot. I
must confess that to me a 30th is a very low potency. I don't think
I own anything less than 30, except Phosphorus, which I own in 12,
in some cases. I may have been influenced by the fact that Crataegus
30 is the lowest I have in my special collection, which I got from
Dr. Kent.
I was giving it in one dose. It seemed to me he was not getting
well on the one dose and was immensely pathological, he was not
throwing out symptoms as well as he should, and possibly he needed
something more nearly physiological than I had been giving. It may
have been entirely wrong.
I am afraid I was just plain experimenting with that 30. I went
to see him carefully. After he had had the four doses, if he had
been worse, I would have stopped it instantly. He appeared to get
better. I told his wife to stop it instantly if he appeared to get
worse at any moment, but he fooled us and got gradually better,
so I am afraid I have no reason for it except God-given despair.
Courtesy----- The Homoeopathic Recorder, November
1940.
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