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-====== INFLAMMATION OF THE CAPUT COLI, SUCCESSFULLY TREATED WITH BELLADONNA======  +wh0cd40122 <a href=http://​buyatenolol9.top/>atenolol medication</a> <a href=http://buydiflucan3.top/​>buy diflucan</a> <a href=http://​diclofenac20.top/>diclofenac</a
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-{{anchor:s3}}BY EDWARD BAYARD, MD. +
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-{{anchor:​s4}}In the month of February last, I was called to the Metropolitan Hotel, to see Judge C, and found him quite indisposed; with great prostration of strength; Pulse, 115; Tongue, coated yellow; Mouth, dry and thirsty; alternate chill and heat; Bowels constipated,​ together with pain and soreness to the touch, of the whole abdomen. {{anchor:​s5}}He said he felt quite sure he was about to have an attack such as he had before experienced. {{anchor:​s6}}As some account of these previous attacks will be of interest, it is here given in his own words-as he was kind enough to write it out, after his recovery : +
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-{{anchor:​s7}}"​About fourteen years ago while residing near the city of Auburn, I suddenly felt an acute pain in the right side of the abdomen, at a point distant about three inches on a horizontal line from the most prominent part of the right hip bone. {{anchor:​s8}}The seat of the pain seemed to be a little below the surface. {{anchor:​s9}}At the moment of its access, I was on the point of leaving my house for a short drive, a purpose which I found it necessary at once to abandon, and soon afterwards I sent for a physician. .{{anchor:​s10}}He recommended some external application -an infusion of hops and vinegar, I think. {{anchor:​s11}}The acute pain subsided to a considerable extent, but was succeeded by preternatural sensibility,​ perceptible at every muscular movement of the part, and a sense of soreness to the touch. {{anchor:​s12}}Three or four days afterwards I was obliged to go to Albany. {{anchor:​s13}}The morning after my arrival, before I arose from bed, on pressing the fingers upon the sore part, I discovered, to my dismay, a swelling of circular form, nearly two inches in diameter, and apparently about half an inch below the surface. +
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-{{anchor:​s14}}In the course of the morning I called on a physician residing near my hotel, for advice. {{anchor:​s15}}He seemed doubtful as to the nature of the malady, but obviously considered it of a grave character. {{anchor:​s16}}Finding from my answers to his inquiries, that I had indispensable engagements that would occupy a day or two, he told me he could do nothing for me until they were completed, as the treatment, to which it would probably be necessary to resort, would require confinement to my room. {{anchor:​s17}}Two days afterwards he commenced treating me, having in the mean time made up his mind that I was suffering under an inflammation of the head of the Colon. {{anchor:​s18}}The treatment consisted of frequent applications of leeches, repeated cuppings, and, finally, of a very large blister, kept on for several days, and, I think, followed by one or two others. {{anchor:​s19}}I was confined to my bed and low diet. +
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-{{anchor:​s20}}Another medical gentleman was called in for consultation. {{anchor:​s21}}He seemed to concur in opinion with the first, and to approve his treatment. {{anchor:​s22}}I was convinced from their language and manner, that they had little expectation of my recovery. {{anchor:​s23}}A third very eminent medical gentleman, upon full information of the symptoms and the treatment, expressed his approbation of the latter. +
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-{{anchor:​s24}}At the expiration of about three weeks the tumor had abated but was still slightly perceptible,​ and then, with scarcely remaining strength enough for the purpose, and much emaciated, I returned home. {{anchor:​s25}}Not long after, the tumor increased somewhat, and the parts continued preternaturally sensitive. {{anchor:​s26}}I was accordingly again leeched and cupped. {{anchor:​s27}}The same thing occurred several times subsequently,​ and it was a long time-I think two years at least, before I got entirely well. +
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-{{anchor:​s28}}In 1853, at Jalapa in Mexico, I got another attack of the same malady-owing,​ as I have no doubt, to my throwing myself upon a mattrass in a cool room, and lying there an hour or so without covering, after a rapid walk in the warm sun about the town. {{anchor:​s29}}In this instance the whole abdominal region was affected at first, but the disturbance was soon concentrated at the point above described, and a tumor was at once formed. {{anchor:​s30}}Under the friendly advice of an intelligent gentleman residing at Jalapa and whom I had the pleasure to know, I sent for a physician who was, of course, a Spaniard. {{anchor:​s31}}What would have been his conclusions independently formed of the case I do not know-but because, whether wisely or not, I informed him of the antecedent attack and of the treatment of it, he resorted to a similar treatment, applying an enormous number of leeches which he confined in a pen that he made for them, about four inches in diameter-and then a very large blister. {{anchor:​s32}}When the skin had been removed from the blistered part, he dropped a white looking cataplasm upon it that produced a burning sensation, I verily believe as painful as would have been caused by live coals. {{anchor:​s33}}I was in his hands about a fortnight, when, if I recollect rightly, nothing of the tumor remained. +
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-{{anchor:​s34}}Since then I have escaped a recurrence of this malady until about a month ago, when I suffered another attack of precisely the same character, except that it was, in its concomitants at least, more violent than the second and far more severe than the first. {{anchor:​s35}}The tumor had become defined and was rapidly increasing in density and soreness. +
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-{{anchor:​s36}}From this attack I had the good fortune to be entirely relieved in three or four days, by medicines which caused me no inconvenience."​ +
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-{{anchor:​s37}}After giving me the substance of the above narrative, he said that if the disease was of the same character, in a few hours a tumor would form at the head of the colon; he detailed to me the opinion of the medical gentlemen who had attended him in his former attacks, together with an account of their severe treatment, and expressed his fears, lest at his advanced age, the illness which he knew to be impending, might prove serious. +
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-{{anchor:​s38}}Aconite 30, was administered some three or four times, at intervals of three hours, followed by one dose of Nux vomica 30. {{anchor:​s39}}The next morning, on calling, I found the Judge with less fever, and the diffused soreness of the abdomen less- but, as he had predicted, a <span grade2>tumor</spanhad formed, about the size of an English walnut, in the region of the head of the colon, hard and exceedingly tender to the touch. {{anchor:​s40}}Tension of the abdominal muscles increased the pain, and the flexion of the legs upon the pelvis was his most comfortable position. +
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-{{anchor:​s41}}Inasmuch as the pains of Belladonna necessitate-"​<span grade2>bending of the body,</span>"​ and as the drug"<​span grade2>​produces much soreness and tenderness to the touch</span>-(<span grade2>​painful sensibility of the abdomen</span>)-<span grade2>​together with inflation and protrusion of the colon in the form of pad</span>- <span grade2>​and inflation and tension of the abdomen chiefly in the region below the false ribs,</span>"​Belladonna was given in the 30th potency III doses at intervals of three hours. +
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-{{anchor:​s42}}Next day the sensibility,​ both of the tumor and abdomen, had greatly lessened, and all the symptoms had much improved. {{anchor:​s43}}Under these circumstances the action of the Belladonna was permitted to continue without interference,​ Sac. Lactis being administered. {{anchor:​s44}}The following day the bowels again became regular-and in the course of a few days afterwards the Judge was restored to his usual state of health. +
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-{{anchor:​s45}}We have published the above case that a parallel may be drawn between the old school treatment and that of the pure Homoeopathic system. {{anchor:​s46}}The indications for Belladonna were well marked in the case above cited; and the satisfactory results which followed its administration are in admirable contrast with the entirely unnecessary additional torture to which the patient had been subjected by his previous Allopathic treatment. {{anchor:​s47}}We submit the case without further remark. +
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-====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== +
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-^ Source: | The AMERICAN HOMOEOPATHIC REVIEW Vol. 01 No. 03, 1858, pages 115-118 | +
-^ Description:​ | Inflammation of the cecum (head of colon) successfully treated with Belladonna. | +
-^ Remedies: | Belladonna, Aconitum napellus, Nux vomica | +
-^ Author: | Bayard, E. | +
-^ Year: | 1858 | +
-^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | +
-^ Attribution:​ | Legatum Homeopathicum |+
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