====== SOME CLINICAL CASES ====== 

{{anchor:s2}}BY E W. BERRIDGE, M.D., LONDON.

{{anchor:s3}}1. SULPHUR.—Nov. 20th, 1880. {{anchor:s4}}A boy, aged seven and a half, was brought to me at 9.{{anchor:s5}}30 A.M., with the following symptoms, which had appeared the same morning: End of prepuce considerably swollen, red, and partly retracted, exposing glans. {{anchor:s6}}“Allen’s Index to the Encyclopedia” had recently arrived; this was a good opportunity for testing its utility. {{anchor:s7}}On referring to page 891, I found that only //Sulphur// corresponded to all three symptoms, i. e., redness, swelling, retraction; while it also has smarting in morning after waking. {{anchor:s8}}The similarity being so complete, I gave only a single dose of //Sulphur// M.M. (F.C.) When I examined patient again, at 1.15 p. M., all the symptoms had disappeared, and he had been playing.

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{{anchor:s10}}2. CARBO AN.—May 6th, 1880. {{anchor:s11}}Two days ago Mrs., while playing in the evening, struck her coccyx violently against the sharp edge of a piece of furniture, having at the time only her night-dress on. {{anchor:s12}}The pain made her feel sick at her stomach and faint //Arnica// was applied locally, but the pain steadily increased. {{anchor:s13}}I saw her next day, at 10.{{anchor:s14}}30 A. M.; there was an aching and burning pain in coccyx, which was also very tender to the touch; pain in coccyx, on stepping with right leg; it was better when standing with right foot raised from the ground; last night could not lie on right side on account of the pain. {{anchor:s15}}In C. Lippe’s invaluable repertory, I found (p. 204), “Pain in os coccygis when touched, //carbo an., Kali bichr., Lach.//{{anchor:s16}}” Of these only //carbo// an has burning in coccyx, therefore I selected it as the simillimum. {{anchor:s17}}As, however, the conditions of the case had not been observed under this remedy, I was not sure that a single dose would prove sufficient. {{anchor:s18}}I, therefore, dissolved some globules of //carbo// an. 3 M. (Jenichen) in water and ordered a spoonful, to be taken, every three hours till better. {{anchor:s19}}Saw her again at 10 p. M. she felt relieved soon after the third dose. {{anchor:s20}}When I saw her the aching was very much better, but the burning and tenderness yet remained. {{anchor:s21}}She could sit with much more comfort and could rise more easily from a seat. {{anchor:s22}}Could not use right leg yet, and the pain returned on stretching right arm out, as well as from treading on right heel. {{anchor:s23}}Faintness and nausea were much less. {{anchor:s24}}I did not consider the improvement sufficiently marked to stop the remedy, therefore it was continued every four hours, till decidedly relieved.

{{anchor:s25}}May 7th, 9 A. M. Has taken two doses, one last night and one this morning. {{anchor:s26}}Is much better, can move without pain. {{anchor:s27}}Stopped medicine.

{{anchor:s28}}May 8th. {{anchor:s29}}The burning and aching all gone, parts still tender, can stand on right leg without pain.

{{anchor:s30}}May 9th. {{anchor:s31}}More tender to-day, having stood much yesterday; can put foot to ground naturally.

{{anchor:s32}}May 10th. {{anchor:s33}}Much better; walked out doors, and soon recovered. {{anchor:s34}}In this case the routine practice of applying //Arnica// to a bruise, failed; the symptoms were cured by the internal administration of the dynamized homoeopathic remedy.

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{{anchor:s36}}3. LACHESIS. Mrs. — had after pains, beginning in left lumbar region, going around left side, across to right side of abdomen, and down left thigh. {{anchor:s37}}Before I arrived the nurse, whom I had instructed in true Homoeopathy, gave a dose of //Lachesis//, very high. {{anchor:s38}}On examining the symptoms, the remedy seemed well indicated by the direction of the pain from left to right; though //Lac Caninum// has (“C. Lippe’s Repertory,” p. 155) “after pains going down to thighs.{{anchor:s39}}” I ordered the //Lachesis// to be repeated as occasion might demand, leaving //Lac Can//. in case it failed. {{anchor:s40}}The //Lachesis// cured without the need of any other remedy.

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{{anchor:s42}}4. LAC VACCINUM DEFLORATUM.{{anchor:s43}}—While nursing the patient just mentioned, the nurse was attacked with the following symptoms: boring pain, sore as if bruised and throbbing in right kidney, extending as a dull aching to right hip, to spine, up to right scapula, and across right side of abdomen to bladder; afterward the boring affected the left kidney also, with a little aching there; backache across sacral region, much worse in the centre—a breaking pain; all the pains worse from movement; afterward sensation as if abdomen were full of water, catching the breath like a spasm. {{anchor:s44}}After suffering for twenty-four, she took //Lac Vaccinum Defloratum// 200; in three hours she was better, and was speedily cured.

{{anchor:s45}}Some months ago she cured herself of a similar attack with the same remedy. {{anchor:s46}}The selection was made according to Dr. Laura Morgan’s clinical case reported in //The Organon//, vol ii, pp. 255-6.

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======

^ Source: | The Homoeopathic Physician Vol. 01 No. 02, 1881, pages 67-69 |
^ Description: | Clinical cases |
^ Remedies: | Sulphur; Carbo animalis; Lachesis; Lac Vaccinum Defloratum |
^ Author: | Berridge, E.W. |
^ Year: | 1881 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |