====== CLINICAL CASES ====== {{anchor:s2}}Apis—Tonsilitis; Lach.{{anchor:s3}}—Sore Throat {{anchor:s4}}BY WILLIAM A. HAWLEY, M. D., SYRACUSE, N. Y. {{anchor:s5}}APIS MELLIFICA.{{anchor:s6}}—Thursday, January 6th, 1881, late in the evening I was called to see Mr. P., aged about thirty. {{anchor:s7}}I found him suffering from tonsillitis, the right tonsil being so swollen and sore as to make deglutition of solids impossible and fluids almost so. {{anchor:s8}}The whole fauces looked very red, and the uvula was much swollen. {{anchor:s9}}He described the pains as stitching, especially on swallowing. {{anchor:s10}}I gave him Hepar Sulph. 30th, once in two hours. {{anchor:s11}}Calling the next morning I found he had had a restless night and was feeling no better. {{anchor:s12}}Examination of the throat by daylight showed uvula looking like a sack of water and he described the pains as “burning, stinging.{{anchor:s13}}” I gave him Apis Mel. 70 M. (Fincke) a few pellets dissolved in half a tumbler of water, two teaspoonfuls once in four hours. {{anchor:s14}}The next morning, January 8th, I found he had rested well all night, and had eaten breakfast without difficulty. {{anchor:s15}}He got Sac. Lac. and resumed his business on Monday. {{anchor:s16}}Jan. 13th, 1881. {{anchor:s17}}A gentleman called on me to prescribe for his wife who is very fleshy and three or four years past the climacteric. {{anchor:s18}}She had a swelling of the left labium vaginae which he described as hard, hot and of a bluish red color. {{anchor:s19}}The side and the color determined the prescription and she got Lachesis 30th, in water, once in two hours. {{anchor:s20}}On the 15th he reported not much change except that it did not seem quite as hard, and she got Lach. {{anchor:s21}}CC, in water, once in two hours. {{anchor:s22}}The 17th he reported again that there was less soreness but more swelling and the heat and color about the same. {{anchor:s23}}Gave Lachesis CM. once in four hours. {{anchor:s24}}Next day I saw the patient for the first time, and on examination found the swelling was not, as I had supposed, phlegmonous; but, while it was enormous, it was puffy and very sore when sitting, with a burning pain. {{anchor:s25}}This decided a change to Apis mel. 70 CM., in water; a dose once in four hours, which, in two days, ended the case. {{anchor:s26}}LACHESIS.{{anchor:s27}}—One day last week a lady, unaccustomed to Homoeopathic treatment, said to me during a casual conversation, “Doctor, I wish you would give me something for my throat I have had a very troublesome throat for several weeks. {{anchor:s28}}There is a sore spot; I can cover it with my finger, so (putting the end of her finger on the left side of her neck just below the angle of the jaw). {{anchor:s29}}It feels as if there was a lump in it that I want all the time to swallow; and when I swallow, it prickles like needles in it.{{anchor:s30}}” I gave her a few pellets of Lachesis CC, with directions to dissolve in a gill of water and take two tea-spoonfuls and repeat after four hours, if not better. {{anchor:s31}}The next day I learned from her daughter that her throat was quite well. {{anchor:s32}}The fourth day after, I saw her and inquiring after her health, she replied, “my throat is quite, well, but, doctor, was there any thing in that medicine that would make my gums sore?{{anchor:s33}}” I said, “Yes, if you have been mercurialized.{{anchor:s34}}” She admitted that she had been under the free use of “blue mass.” {{anchor:s35}}How are the Milwaukee tests? ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | The Homoeopathic Physician Vol. 01 No. 05, 1881, pages 195-197 | ^ Description: | CLINICAL CASES; Tonsilitis; Sore Throat | ^ Remedies: | Apis mellifera; Lachesis | ^ Author: | Hawley, W.A. | ^ Year: | 1881 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |