I was called in the month of June, 1834, to visit a man who was said to be in the last extremity. I found him lying on his back; his face, strongly injected and overcast, announced a complete loss of intelligence; he muttered, without ceasing, words which had no sense, and so confused that they could be little understood; he drew the clothes of his bed over his chest, and up to his face; his arms and hands were agitated with a continual trembling; he appeared sometimes to recognize his wife, but no other person; no function was normally performed; he had an obstinate constipation. The extremities were cold; the cheeks red; there was sleepiness, dreams, and a state of anxiety and fear.
I was told that the man had been ill for about eight days; that his state had become worse day after day; and, on the present morning, after a bath, they had thought his death imminent. They attributed his malady to the use of spiritous liquors, the fear of being assassinated, and a paroxysm of anger. He was now attacked with the disease for the third time; and, each time, the immediate cause of which had brought it on had been wine. On previous occasions, he had been cured allopathically, after several months' treatment.
I had, without doubt, to combat delirium tremens; and the disease had been incontestably caused by the effects of wine. Nux vomica is one of the principal remedies for delirium tremens, and, moreover, it is one of the antidotes for wine; for it produces, on persons in health, a state of stupor and other symptoms of intoxication. I administered, therefore, one globule of Nux vomica of the 30th dilution. That evening, the disease appeared redoubled in intensity; the patient threw himself out of his bed; he began to run about in the garden; and he was mastered only with great trouble, and brought back again to his bed, where he remained as if insensible, and fell into a state of stupor, which little by little became a natural slumber, from which he did not awake until next morning. The sleep appeared to his friends to be the prelude of death: they were astonished when he awoke. He recognized all those around him; and the most frightful symptoms had disappeared. I left the organization to react freely. I ordered nothing medicinal that day, and I desired a little broth might be given to the patient. During the day, he was a little delirious; but his limbs were less agitated, and his fears calmed.
The next day, I administered a fresh globule of Nux vomica. - The evacuations from the bowels were re-established; the appetite returned; the patient rose, and walked in his garden. The delirium tremens had completely disappeared; and the patient had taken but two globules at the 30th attenuation.
London, 1836. - Miss -, aged 13 years, of a delicate constitution, but of good health usually, had notwithstanding been troubled, ever since her earliest infancy, with myopia; and, so far was it from decreasing with years, that her sight had become more and more short and indistinct. She could recognize no object nor any person at a distance from her; and when she descended the stairs, she held by the bannister to avoid falling. Her sight was uncertain, cloudy, and light spots passed and repassed, at that time, continually before her eyes. Her face had a peculiar character; not receiving, except incompletely, impressions from surrounding objects, her features were but little moved; her eyes were singularly prominent, melancholy, with pupils dilated.
Twice I prescribed 1|30 of Conium , to be taken in five spoonfuls of water; one spoonful to be taken every day. - The patient had not finished her two powders, when her mother wrote to me in the following terms: "You will, I am sure, be glad to learn that my dear child has already derived benefit from your powders you kindly sent her. She can tell the hour, by the clock in the stables, from the windows in the school-room: formerly she could only just distinguish that there was something there with gilt-work upon it; and several other objects she is able to see which she formerly was not." The patient, after taking two powders, lost entirely the luminous appearances before the eyes; the pupils were infinitely more contracted, and the eyes altogether less prominent.
I suffered nearly fifteen days to pass by before I administered anything, when I gave two more globules of Conium in the same manner as at first. The patient, meanwhile, could read at the distance of a foot and a half, or two feet; and she could not do so at six or ten inches distance, nor with the eyes very near the book, as she had done before. In walking through a large room, she could see the pictures, and distinguish them. She recognized everybody, and her face acquired an animated character.
Her regimen had not been changed, excepting that spices and wine had been prohibited. This severity was the only one introduced into the treatment, which lasted not two months.
I do not wish to draw a result from this fact, that all cases of myopia are curable, or especially that they are curable by Conium. Conium cured, because it corresponded not only to the myopia, but also to the cloudy and luminous spots with which the patient was affected. I thought that his fact might be of utility to oculists. If they will study homoeopathy, they will render services - very great services - to numberless patients who have recourse to them.
I shall not here report further cases, but shall reserve the doing so for the Homoeopathic Journal, which I shall publish at the beginning of the year 1838; and thither I refer physicians who desire to study fundamentally the doctrine of Hahnemann.
I shall now pass in review a certain number of medicaments, and make a few practical remarks on each; but the reader is warned, that these brief remarks can in no way dispense with the study of the materia medica - they are given merely to obviate some difficulties for those who begin homoeopathy- they form an introduction to the study of the materia medica pura.
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This medicine is appropriate especially for persons of brown complexion, and those in whom the stools are habitually too soft. In can rarely be employed in those habits where there is a tendency to constipation.
Nitric acid is employed with great success in diseases of the bones, chiefly when those diseases have been preceded by syphilis or the abuse of mercury.
The circumstances in which it most exhibits its efficacy, are those in which the following morbid conditions exist: - Vertigo, which obliges to sit down, pulsating headache, paralysis of the upper-eyelid, sense of weight in the eyes, running of pus from the eyes, button-like eruption about the face, buzzings in the ears, beatings in the ears, obstruction in the ears, hard-hearing, dryness of the nose, bleeding of the nose, ulceration in the red portion of the lips, swelling of the glands of the neck, burning heat in the throat, pain as of excoriation in the throat, bitter taste in the mouth, closure of the throat after having drank fast, distaste for animal food, impossibility of digesting milk, thirst (in suppuration of the lungs), accumulation of air in the abdomen, expulsion of wind night and morning, colics, shootings in the abdomen when touched, pain similar to that of ulcer in the lower part of the abdomen, borborygmi in the abdomen, weight in the fundament, fetidness of the urine, pain in passing water, swelling of the glands of the groin, leucorrhoea, dry coryza, obstruction in the nostrils, asthma, pain in the sacrum, pain in the back, stiffness in the nape of the neck, shooting pains in the shoulders, pain in the thighs in rising from a chair, feebleness in the knees, cramps in the calfs of the legs in walking after having sat down, shooting pains in the heel in walking, cold legs, icy coldness, itching inflammation in the limbs in consequence of the least cold, tearing pain in the limbs, itching of tetters, reddish brown spots on the skin, warts, great disposition to take cold, morning lassitude, after dinner weakness, agitation in the night, frequent dreams, afternoon fever with cold and heat, night-sweat, want of serenity of mind, sadness, chagrined temper, excessive irritability, uneasiness as to the termination of the disease with fear of death, aversion for employment.
It has been found highly useful in amaurosis.
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This medicine is very efficient in cases of nervous fever with stupor, in cerebral affections, in megrim, obstinate headach, some kinds of ophthalmia, &c.
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Aconite is, in the highest degree, antiphlogistic; and it acts especially on the sanguiferous system. It is useful, therefore, at the commencement of all inflammatory diseases, and all visceral congestions of blood. It has all the advantages of bloodletting, without its disadvantages. It is employed with the greatest success in croup, pleurisies, acute hepatitis, inflammatory fevers, catarrhs, inflammations of the brain and membranes, measles, small-pox, and beatings and palpitations of the heart.
Alternated with Pulsatilla , it is a preservative against measles; one globule being ordered, and, twenty-four hours afterwards, one of Pulsatilla , and both repeated several times. Even when the disease is not prevented, it is thus rendered much less formidable.
Aconite ought to be administered during the hot stage of fever; but should be avoided during the cold stage.
Above all other remedies, it is useful in diseases caused by fear or anger. It is indispensable with women who have suffered fear or disagreements during their periodical discharges; when one globule will be enough to reestablish tranquility, whether the medicine be laid on the tongue or simply smelled by the patient.
Vegetable acids and wine destroy the effects of Aconite : they ought to be excluded from the regimen during the use of the medicine. Indeed, all medicines which have great analogy in action with Aconite , act so that wine and acids serve as antidotes when it is wished to destroy their effects.
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This medicine is very important in the treatment of diarrhoea in lying-in women, colds in the head, fulness in the stomach, fistulous suppurations, inflammatory rheumatisms, and some intermittent fevers.
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Arnica soon subdues those accidents which either accompany or follow a fall, a blow, or a bruise from a resisting body. It ensures the success of the most dangerous operations by preventing any serious nervous accident, any too violent febrile re-action, or any inflammation of too strong a nature. After the use of Arnica , the bruised parts exhibit only very slight ecchymoses, and often none at all, and the pain quickly disappears.
Angina in the chest, apoplexy, arthritis, bronchitis, cephalalgia caused by a blow, cerebral disturbances, hooping cough, corns, strains and sprains, epistaxis proceeding from a traumatic cause, eruptions of pimples, excoriations in the sacrum in bad cases of fever among women after delivery, clefts in the breasts, intermittent fevers, swelled cheeks, furoncles, gastroenteritis, heamatemesis, hoemoptysis, bad lips, bites, facial neuralgia, odontalgia, traumatic ophthalmia, orchitis, sore ears, paralysis caused by contusion, puerperal peritonitis, stings of bees, gnats, etc., chronic rheumatisms, typhus, expansion of the veins, - these disorders are to be overcome by Arnica , especially when they are occasioned by external injury, or when the patient experiences tearing pains, etc.
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Arsenic , homoeopathically administered in minute doses, displays itself favorably on a great many morbid states: for example, in many quotidian fevers and intermittent fevers of a particular kind, in varices, shootings in the sternum, vomitings after having eaten any food whatever, too great loss of blood during the periodical discharges in women and other mishaps to the menstrual flow, constipation, leucorrhoeal flow, and the excoriation which succeeds it, hardness of the liver, oppression on the chest in mounting a height, bad smell of the breath, bleeding of the gums, bleeding from the lungs, weight on the sternum, sense of weight in the stomach, pulling shootings in the face, sleepiness in the evening, shiverings in the evening with pandiculation and anxious agitation, difficulty in going to sleep again after having been awakened in the night, lassitude in the legs, contusive pains in the knees, swellings with pain as if of scorching in the great toes, old ulcers in the legs which give burning and lancinating pain, plucking pains in the hips, groin and thighs, plucking and drawing pains at night from the elbow to the axilla, painful swellings of the inguinal glands, obstructions in the glandular system, chiefly in the mesentery, amongst infants of a very tender age, great emaciation and a feeble constitution, amongst persons of a dry and irritable habit, in couperose, cancerous ulcers, chronic cutaneous, eruptions, dropsies, some complaints of the abdomen, &c. - In all these, Arsenic produces the most salutary effects.
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Assafoetida is one of the most powerful remedies against diseases of the bones, - necrosis, caries, exostosis, and chiefly when these diseases are of a scrofulous or rachitic nature.
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This substance is productive of the best effects in ophthalmias and other scrofulous affections, spots on the cornea, indurations of the glands, some mental diseases, hysteria, hypochondriasis, the desire of destroying one's self, chronic coryza.
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Baryta is of great service in multitude of cases, and chiefly when chronic diseases which it tends to cure put on the following as their predominant symptoms:- Headach immediately over the eyes, calvitia, eruption over and behind the ears, eruption on the lobe of the ear, disagreeable dryness in the nose, crusts below the nose, stiffness in the nape of the neck, prickings in the nape of the neck, shakings here and there of the teeth, burning shootings in a hollow tooth when a hot body is bit, dryness of the mouth, weight in the stomach after a meal, stomach-ache, fasting and after having eaten, feebleness of the genital functions, coryza, mucous choking in the chest, tongue clogged with cough in the night, cough throughout the night, pain at the sacrum, pain in the deltoid muscle on raising the arms, numbness in the arm when lain on, numbness of the fingers, fetid perspiration of the feet, great tendency to become cool, want of strength, sleep interrupted by dreams, night convulsions in the muscles of the whole body, night sweats.
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