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 +====== SOME CLINICAL CASES ====== ​
  
 +{{anchor:​s2}}BY E W. BERRIDGE, M.D., LONDON.
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 +{{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.
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 +{{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.
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 +{{anchor:​s28}}May 8th. {{anchor:​s29}}The burning and aching all gone, parts still tender, can stand on right leg without pain.
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 +{{anchor:​s30}}May 9th. {{anchor:​s31}}More tender to-day, having stood much yesterday; can put foot to ground naturally.
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 +{{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.
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 +{{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 ======
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 +^ 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 |
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