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Chronic Diseases-- Samuel Hahnemann |
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(Page 50 ... 59) If the cause must at all times be proportionate to its effect and consequence, as is the in nature, no one can see how, after the removal of the causes assailing her health, the resulting ailments could not only continue, but even increase from year to year, if their cause were not in something else, something deeper, so those unhappy occurrences (the miscarriage and the sad tidings), since they both disappeared of themselves and therefore could not possibly yield a sufficient ground for the ensuing chronic disease, can only be regarded as the occasion, but not the efficient cause, of the development of a hostile power of greater importance, pre-existent in the internal organism but hitherto quiescent. In a similar manner, a robust merchant, apparently healthy, despite some traces of internal psoral perceptible only to the professional examiner, may in consequence of unlucky commercial conjunctures become involved in his finances, even so as to approach bankruptcy, and at the same time he will fall gradually into various ailments and finally into serious illness. The death of a rich kinsman, however, and the gaining of a great prize in a lottery, abundantly cover his commercial losses; he becomes a man of means - but his illness, nevertheless, not only continues but increases from year to year, despite all medical prescriptions, in spite of his visiting the most famous baths, or rather, perhaps, with the assistance of these two causes. A modest girl, who, excepting some signs of internal psora, was accounted quite healthy, was compelled into a marriage which made her unhappy of soul, and in the same degree her bodily health declined, without any trace of venereal infection. No allopathic medicine alleviates her sad ailments, which continually grow more threatening. But in the midst of this aggravation, after one year's suffering, the cause of her unhappiness, her hated husband, is taken from her by death, and she seems to revive, in the conviction, that she is now delivered from every occasion of mental or bodily illness, and hopes for a speedy recovery; all her friends hope the same for her, as the exciting cause of her illness lies in the grave. She also improves speedily, but unexpectedly she still remained an invalid, despite the vigor of her youth; yea, her ailments but seldom leave her, and are renewed from time to time without any external cause, and they are even aggravated from year to year in the rough months. A person who had been unjustly suspected and become involved in a serious criminal suit, and who had before seemed healthy, with the exception of the marks of latent psora mentioned above, during these harassing months fell into various diseased states. But finally the innocence of the accused is acknowledged, and an honorable acquittal followed. We might suppose that such a happy, gratifying event would necessarily give new life to the accused and remove all bodily complaints. But this does not take place, the person still at times suffers from these ailments, and they are even renewed with longer or briefer intermissions, and are aggravated with the passing years, especially in the wintry seasons. How shall we explain this? If that disagreeable event had been the cause, the sufficient cause, of these ailments, ought not the effect; i.e., the disease, to have entirely ceased of necessity, after the removal of the cause? But these ailments do not cease, they are in time renewed and even gradually aggravated, and it becomes evident that those disagreeable events could not have been the sufficient cause of the present ailments and complaints - it is seen that they only served as an occasion and impetus toward the development, of a malady, which till then only slumbered within. The recognition of this old internal foe, which is so frequently present, and the science which is able to overcome it, make it manifest, that generally an indwelling itch (psora) was the ground of all these ailments, which can not be overcome even by the vigor of the best constitution, but only through art.) But even if favorable external conditions should again check the rapid development of a disease that has broken out, true health can not be lastingly restored by any of the modes of treatment hitherto known, and the customary allopathic treatments, with their aggressive, inappropriate remedies - such as baths, mercury, prussic acid, iodine, digitalis, quinine, starvation and other fashionable remedies included - only hasten death, the end of all those maladies which the physician cannot heal. When once, under the above-mentioned unfavorable outward surroundings, the transition of the psora from its slumbering and bound condition to its awakening and outbreak has taken place, and the patient leaves himself to the injurious activity of the usual allopathic physician, who deems it appropriate to his office and his income to mercilessly assault the organism of the patient (as we are sorry to witness every day) with the battering-rams of his violent, inappropriate remedies and weakening treatments; - in such a case, the external circumstances of the patient and his situation with respect to his surroundings may have changed ever so favorably, but the aggravation of the disease nevertheless proceeds under such hands without any escape. The awakening of the internal psora which has hitherto slumbered and been latent, and, as it were, kept bound by a good bodily constitution and favorable external circumstances, as well as its breaking out into more serious ailments and maladies, is announced by the increase of the symptoms given above as indicating the slumbering psora, and also by a numberless multitude of various other signs and complaints. These are varied according to the difference in the bodily constitution of a man, his hereditary disposition, the various errors in his education and habits, his manner of living and diet, his employments, his turn of mind, his morality, etc. Then when the itch-malady develops into a manifest secondary disease there appear the following symptoms, which I have derived and observed altogether from accounts of diseases which I myself have treated successfully and which confessedly originated from the contagion of itch, and were mixed neither with syphilis nor sycosis. I am quite willing to believe that many more symptoms may have occurred in the experience of others. I would only add further, that among the symptoms adduced there are also such as are entirely opposed to each other, the reason of which may be found in the varying bodily constitutions existing at the time - when the outbreak of the internal psora occurred. Yet the one variety of symptoms is found more rarely than the other and it offers no particular obstruction to a cure: Vertigo; reeling while walking. Vertigo; when closing the eyes, everything seems to turn around with him; he is at the same time seized with nausea. Vertigo; on turning around briskly, he almost falls over. Vertigo, as if there was a jerk in the head, which causes a momentary loss of consciousness. Vertigo with frequent eructations. Vertigo even when only looking down on the level ground, or when looking upward. Vertigo while walking on a road not enclosed on either side, in an open plain. Vertigo; she seems to herself now too large, now too small, or other objects have this appearance to her. Vertigo, resembling a swoon. Vertigo, passing over into unconsciousness. Dizziness; inability to think or to perform mental labor. Her thoughts are not under her control. She is at times quite without thought (sits lost in thought). The open air causes dizziness and drowsiness in the head. Everything at times seems dark and black before his eyes, while walking or stooping, or when raising himself from a stooping posture. Rush of blood to the head.1 Heat in the head (and in the face).2 A cold pressure on the top of the head.3 Headache, a dull pain in the morning immediately on waking up, or in the afternoon when walking rapidly or speaking loudly. Headache on one side, with a certain periodicity (after 28, 14 or a less number of days), more frequently during full moon, or during the new moon, or after mental excitement, after a cold, etc.; a pressure or other pain on top of the head or inside of it, or a boring pain over one of the eyes.4 ----- (1 While the mind is uneasy, with anxiety and disinclination to work.) (2 Not unfrequently accompanied with coldness of the hands and feet.) (3 Usually accompanied with anxiety.) (4 At the same time a great internal disquiet and anxiety, especially in the abdomen; a lack of stools, or frequent, scanty evacuations attended with anxiety; heaviness in the limbs, quivering in the whole body, tension of all the nerves with great irritability and sensitiveness; the eye can not bear any light, lachrymation, sometimes with swelling of the eyes; the feet are cold; at times attended with dry coryza; often chills, then again a flying heat; conjoined with this, continuous nausea, also at times, retching and vomiting; she lies either as if stunned, or throws herself anxiously from side to side, the attacks lasting from twelve to twenty-four and more hours. After these attacks either great weariness with sadness, or a feeling of tension all over the body. Before these attacks there are frequently jerks of the limbs during sleep and starting up from sleep, anxious dreams, gnashing of the teeth in sleep and tendency to start at any sudden noise.) Headache daily at certain hours; e.g., a stitching in the temples.1 Attacks of throbbing headache (e.g., in the forehead) with violent nausea as if about to sink down, or, also, vomiting; starting early in the evenings, repeated every fortnight, or sooner or later. Headache as if the skull were about to burst open.2 Headache, drawing pains.3 Headache, stitches in the head (passing out at the ears).4 Roaring noise in the brain, singing, buzzing, humming, thundering, etc. The scalp full of dandruff, with or without itching. Eruption on the head, tinea capitis, malignant tinea with crusts of greater or less thickness, with sensitive stitches when one of the places becomes moist; when it becomes moist a violent itching; the whole crown of the head painfully sensitive to the open air; with it hard swellings of the glands in the neck. The hair of the head as if parched. The hair of the head frequently falls out, most in front, on the crown and top of the head; bald spots or beginning baldness of certain spots. Under the skin are formed painful lumps, which come and pass away, like bumps and round tumors.5 Feeling of contraction in the skin of the scalp and the face. Paleness of the face during the first sleep, with blue rings around the eyes. Frequent redness of the face, and heat.6 ----- (1 Which also swell at times, with lachrymation of the one eye.) (2 In some cases a drawing pain from the nape of the neck toward the occiput, at times also over the whole head and face, which is often bloated from it, while the head aches when touched, not infrequently attended with nausea.) (3 Usually while walking, especially while walking and moving after meals.) (4 At the same time everything frequently appears dark before her face.) (5 Which also in rare cases pass over into suppuration.) (6 He at times also becomes quite weak and weary from it or anxious, and he perspires on the upper part of the body; his eyes at times become dim; everything becomes black before his eyes, his mind is sad; his head also feels as if too full, with burning in the temples.) Yellowish, yellow color of the face. Sallow yellowish complexion. Erysipelas on the face.1 Pressive pain on the eyes, especially late in the evening; he must shut them. He cannot look long at anything, else everything flickers before him; objects seem to move. The eyelids, especially in the morning, are as if closed; he cannot open them (for minutes; yea, even for hours); the eyelids are heavy as if paralyzed or convulsively closed. The eyes are most sensitive to daylight; they are pained by it and close involuntarily.2 Sensation of cold in the eyes. The canthi are full of pus-like mucus (eye-gum). The edges of the eyelids full of dry mucus. On the edges of the eyelids, inflammation of single Meibomian glands or of several of them. Inflammations of the eyes, of various kinds.3 Yellowness around the eyes. Yellowness of the white of the eye.4 Dim, opaque spots on the cornea.5 Dropsy of the eye. Obscuration of the crystalline lens, cataract. Squinting. Far-sightedness; he sees far in the distance, but cannot clearly distinguish small objects held close. Short-sightedness; he can see even small objects by holding them close to the eye, but the more distant the object is, the more indistinct it appears, and at a great distance he does not see it. False vision; he sees objects double, or manifold, or only the one-half of them. Before his eyes there are floating as it were flies, or black points, or dark streaks, or networks, especially when looking into bright daylight. The eyes seem to look through a veil or a mist; the sight becomes dim at certain times. ----- (1 In some cases with much fever, also at times with burning, itching, stinging watery blisters in the face, which turn into scabs (Erysipelas bullosum.) (2 Usually with more or less inflammation.) (3 The fistula lachrymalis has probably never any other cause than the itch-disease.) (4 Or grey color of the same.) (5 Even without having had any previous inflammation of the eyes.) Night blindness; he sees well in daytime, but, in the twilight he cannot see at all. Blindness by day; he can only see well during the twilight. Amaurosis; uninterrupted dimness of vision1 increased finally even to blindness. Painfulness of various spots in the face, the cheeks, the cheek-bones, the lower jaw, etc., when touched; while chewing, as if festering inwardly; also like stitches and jerks; especially in chewing there are jerks, stitches and a tension so that he cannot eat.2 The hearing is excessively irritated and sensitive; she cannot bear to hear a bell ring without trembling; he is thrown into convulsions by the beating of the drum, etc.; many sounds cause pain in the ear. There are stitches in the ear, outwardly.3 Crawling sensation and itching in the ear. Dryness in the ear; dry scabs within, without any ear-wax. Running from the ear of thin, usually ill-smelling pus. Pulsation in the ear. Various sounds and noises in the ear.4 Deafness of various degrees even up to total deafness, with or without noise in the ear; occasionally worse, according to the weather. Swelling of the parotid glands.5 Epistaxis, more or less profusely, more or less frequently. The nostrils as it were stopped up.6 Sensation of dryness in the nose, troublesome even when the air passes freely. Polypi of the nose (usually with the loss of the power of smelling); these may extend also through the nasal passages into the fauces. Sense of smell, weak, lost. ----- (1 More frequently without opacity of the crystalline lens than with it.) (2 During chewing or speaking there is at times also a similar twitching on the sides of the head, where protuberances like painful bumps often arise. When the pain is still more unbearable and at times combined with a burning pain, it is called Fothergill's pain in the face.) (3 Especially while walking in the open air.) (4 Such as clinking, rushing, seething, roaring, humming, chirping, ringing, drumming, thundering, whizzing, fluttering, murmuring, etc.) (5 Often with stinging pains in the glands.) (6 Either one or both, or alternately, first one, then the other; often there is only the sensation of being stopped up, while the air can be freely drawn in through it.) Sense of smell perverted.1 Too violent sensation of smell, higher and highest sensitiveness for even imperceptible odors. Scabs in the nose; discharge of pus or hardened clots of mucus.2 Fetid smell in the nose. Nostrils frequently ulcerated, surrounded with, pimples and scabs. Swelling and redness of the nose or the tip of the nose, frequent or continual. Under the nose or on the upper lip, long-lasting scabs or itching pimples. The red of the lips is quite pale. The red of the lips is dry, scabby, peeling off; it chaps. Swelling of the lips, especially of the upper lip.3 The inside of the lips is lined with little sores or blisters.4 Cutaneous eruption of the beard and of the roots of the hairs of the beard, with itching. Eruptions of the face of innumerable kinds.5 Glands of the lower jaw swollen, sometimes passing over into chronic suppuration. Glandular swellings down the sides of the neck. Gums bleeding at a slight touch. Gums, the external or the internal, painful, as if from wounds. Gums, with erosive itching. Gums, whitish, swollen, painful on touching. Gums, recession, leaving the front teeth and their roots bare. Gnashing of the teeth during sleep. Looseness of the teeth, and many kinds of deterioration of the teeth, even without toothache. Toothache of innumerable varieties, with varying causes of excitation. She cannot remain in bed at night, owing to toothache On the tongue, painful blisters and sore places. Tongue white, coated white or furred white. Tongue pale, bluish-white. Tongue full of deep furrows; here and there, as if torn above. Tongue dry. Sensation of dryness on the tongue, even while it is properly moist. ----- (1 E.g., the smell of manure or some other peculiar smell is in the nose.) (2 Sometimes also a discharge of acrid mucus from the nose.) (3 At times with a burning, biting pain.) (4 Often very painful, coming and passing away.) (5 Milk-crust, pimples, blotches, herpes and carcinomatous ulcers of the nose, lips and face (also called cancer), with burning and stinging pain.) Stuttering, stammering; also at times sudden attacks of inability to speak. On the inside of the cheeks painful blisters or sores. Flow of blood from the mouth; often severe. Sensation of dryness of the whole internal mouth, or merely in spots, or deep down in the throat.1 Fetid smell from the mouth. Burning in the throat. Constant flow of saliva, especially while speaking, particularly in the morning. Continual spitting of saliva. Frequent mucus deep down in the throat (the fauces), which he has to hawk up and expectorate frequently during the day, especially in the morning. Frequently inflammation of the throat, and swelling of the parts used in swallowing. Insipid, slimy taste in the mouth. Intolerably sweet taste in the mouth, almost constantly. Bitter taste in the mouth, mostly in the morning.2 Sourish and sour taste in the mouth, especially after eating, though the food tasted all right.3 Putrid and fetid taste in the mouth. Bad smell in the mouth, sometimes mouldy, sometimes putrid like old cheese, or like fetid foot-sweat, or like rotten sour kraut. Eructations, with the taste of the food, several hours after eating. Eructations, empty, loud, of mere air, uncontrollable, often for hours, not infrequently at night. Incomplete eructation, which causes merely convulsive shocks in the fauces, without coming out of the mouth. Eructation, sour, either fasting or after food, especially after milk. Eructation, which excites to vomiting. Eructation, rancid (especially after eating fat things). Eructation, putrid or mouldy, early in the morning. Frequent eructations before meals, with a sort of rabid hunger. Heartburn, more or less frequent; there is a burning along the chest, especially after breakfast, or while moving the body. ----- (1 Chiefly on waking up at night or in the morning, with or without thirst; with a great deal of dryness in the throat, often a pricking pain in swallowing.) (2 Not rarely, this is constant.) (3 Rarely an offensively sweet taste in the mouth, even without eating or drinking.) Water-brash, a gushing discharge of a sort of salivary fluid from the stomach, preceded by writhing pains in the stomach (the pancreas), with a sensation of weakness (shakiness), nausea causing as it were a swoon, and gathering of the saliva in the mouth, even at night.1 The ruling complaints in any part of the body are excited after eating fresh fruit, especially if this is acidulous, also after acetic acid (in salads, etc.). Nausea early in the morning.2 Nausea even to vomiting, in the morning immediately after rising from bed, decreasing from motion. Nausea always after eating fatty things or milk. Vomiting of blood. Hiccough after eating or drinking. Swallowing impeded by spasms, even causing a man to die of hunger. Spasmodic, involuntary swallowing. Frequent sensation of fasting and of emptiness in the stomach (or abdomen), not unfrequently with much saliva in the mouth. Ravenous hunger (canine hunger), especially early in the morning; he has to eat at once else he grows faint, exhausted and shaky, (or if he is in the open air he has to lie straight down). Ravenous hunger with rumbling and grumbling in the abdomen. Appetite without hunger; she has a desire to swallow down in haste various things without there being any craving therefor in the stomach. A sort of hunger; but when she then eats ever so little, she feels at once satiated and full. When she wants to eat, she feels full in the chest and her throat feels as if full of mucus. Want of appetite; only a sort of gnawing, turning and writhing in the stomach urges her to eat. Repugnance to cooked, warm food, especially to boiled meat, and hardly any longing for anything but rye-bread (with butter), or for potatoes.3 ----- (1 This also at times turns into vomiting of water, mucus, or a gush of acrid acid - more frequently after eating flour dumplings, vegetables causing flatulence, baked prunes, etc.) (2 Often coming very suddenly.) (3 Especially in youth and childhood.) In the morning, at once, thirst; constant thirst. In the pit of the stomach there is a sensation of swelling painful to the touch. Sensation of coldness in the pit of the stomach. Pressure in the stomach or in the pit of the stomach, as from a stone, or a constricting pain (cramp).1 In the stomach, beating and pulsation, even when fasting. Spasm in the stomach; pain in the pit of the stomach as if drawn together.2 Griping in the stomach; a painful griping in the stomach;3 it suddenly constricts the stomach, especially after cold drinking. Pain in the stomach, as if sore, when eating even the most harmless kinds of foods. Pressure in the stomach, even when fasting, but more from every kind of food, or from particular dishes, fruit, green vegetables, rye-bread, food containing vinegar, etc.4 During eating, feels dizzy and giddy, threatening to fall to one side. After the slightest supper, nocturnal heat in bed; in the morning, constipation and exceeding lassitude. After meals, anxiety and cold perspiration with anxiety.5 During eating, perspiration. Immediately after eating, vomiting. After meals, pressure and burning in the stomach, or in the epigastrium, almost like heartburn. After eating, burning in oesophagus from below upward. After meals, distension of the abdomen.6 ----- (1 In some cases even while fasting, and causing him to wake up out of sleep at night, sometimes oppressing the breathing.) (2 Usually a short time after eating.) (3 Not infrequently with vomiting of mucus and water, without which in such a case the griping is not alleviated.) (4 Even after partaking of the slightest quantity of such things, there may also ensue colic, pain or numbness of the jaws, tearing pain in the teeth, copious accumulation of mucus in the throat, etc.) (5 There may also be pains, renewed now and then; e.g., stitches in the lips, griping and digging in the abdomen, pressure in the chest, heaviness in the back and the small of the back, even to nausea; when nothing but an artificially excited vomiting will give relief. With some the anguish is aggravated after eating, even to an impulse to destroy themselves by strangulation.) (6 With this, at times, weariness in the arms and legs.) |
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