Unleashing a Monster . .
Slow Torture and Mass
MURDER BY HOMEOPATHY
“After you have seen a great many cases you will find that you have killed some of them. “ Kent
He is right. I am now experiencing a terrible reaction from a homeopathic remedy . . .
The is the first required lesson in the study of homeopathy. It shows the ugly, highly distressing, violent use of a radiopharmaceutical (the medicine used in homeopathic pharnaceuticals0
No one should use homeopathic pharmaceuticals venture an opinion about whether it is safe to take a homeopathic medicine until they have read
MURDER BY HOMEOPATHY.
The callous hubris, the inflated ignorance surrounding homeopathy is so great that most of those involved in the debate as to whether homeopathic pharma is placebo or verum, that most, if not all of our readers here will take this to be an attempt to be funny.
It is not.
Given that laughter be the handmaiden of digestion, the occassional dark attempt should be forgiven, but eschatalogically this is dead serious in the end. According to the reports of medical doctors, painful symptoms can be permanetly adhered to recipients of supramolecular diluents used in homneopathy, destroy their health and even kill them.
Homeopathics should be administered only by trained professionals who are registered to know their potential harmful and deadly effects.
Unfortunately neither homeopaths or their critics want you to know this. Homeopaths want you to think homeopathic drugs are safeand effective, and their critics, like Prof. Edzard Ernst of Exeter University, want you to think they are only safe because they’re inert, and so ineffective.
Some would sat never repeat a dose.
The fact is you can get too much of a good thing. The rule of homeopathy is the minimal dose. Give a single dose, wait and see if there is a reaction. Hahnemann created the fifty millessimal series of diluents, his last scale of remedies, to avoid what’s called an aggravation . I’ve seen it happen before. Repeated dosing of a homeopathic can cause a person to become bed ridden for days. Water does indeed have a memory . .. potentially a long one. And as you will see the worst, most dangerous is in the class of remedies called “imponderabilia” taken from highly radioactive sources. Imponderrabilia can be remedies exposed to radiation from such unlikely and subtle sources such as the light of Venus, magnets and even brainwaves, and then the not so subtle sources, such as the burning rays of the Sun, radioactive elements such as Uranium and Plutonium . . and x-rays. .
Such is the radiation absorbing, such are the discharge properties of Tritium, the radiation battery of water. With this understood, the next step is seeing how condensed matter is transformed into radiation, how the molecule is changed into the electron. Such is the radiation slumbering, its potency actually increasing, like wine in a bottle, as it’s hydrogen augers drill into the glass, pulling out molecules of silica, cozeners to the water molecule, tetrahedral in shape, bonding and forming an electromagnetic lens, quantum entanglement defying gravity, space and time
Mind to mind healing aside, when done right, the pathological similitude employed in homeopathy is the most powerful and effective healing technique in the world today, but as the wise will surmise, anything so powerful must have its dangers, and homeopathy is no exception.
What can cure can kill . .
John Benneth on Prof. Edzard Ernst’s blog on Thursday 14 March 2019 at 14:18
Occasionally I drop in to read what homeopathy critic Prof. Edzard Ernst’s blog at https://edzardernst.com/2019/03/a-p-curve-analysis-confirms-ultramolecular-homeopathic-remedies-are-placebos/ has to say here on WordPress and give him and his brood hive a little honey, see what hornets are buzzing about in the chat cell, check to see if they found a new Queen of Denial to replace Randi yet, toss in the bug bomb, labelled “Murder by Homeopathy”, and run like hell.
Here I am commenting about how he thinks dopey homeopaths are duspensing nothing but placebos :
“The fact is, you can kill a man or graft symptoms on him for life using homeopathic medicines.”
Ernst: BEEN ON THE BOTTLE AGAIN JOHN?
John: Ask Kent. If anyone was in need of a bottle, it was probably him, Professor, he made the claim, not me. Kent says you might kill a few of your patients by improper administration of a high potency dilute. Considering the cost of high dilutes these days you could terminate a whole battalion of men for a few pennies worth of what you have been crying is untraceable,
Well is it true? Can these highly diluted “homeopathic medicines” actually possess the chemistry to kill a man?
If so, placebo’s a nice dodge.
John: “Let me ask you Professor, having presumably administered homeopathic medicines as a medical doctor, did anyone die while under your care? To deal with the guilt of knowing you actually killed someone by misuse of these materials would, I presume, drive one mad with anxiety and guilt, and make refuge in skepticism a livelyjrbenneth@aol.com comfort, a place to exercise your hubris . . and would explain the belittlement that often accompanies your responses to those of us who regard homeopathics as verum.”
The question was removed from his blog.
ELDER ABUSE
Disbelief in the power of homeopathic pharmaceuticals has led to deadly consequences, and we need help in educating health care workers, not only of the effectiveness of homeopathy, but its dangers, especially to the elderly.
In fact, if your career is delicate enough to be subject to obloquy, homeopathy has been so deadly that the mere positive mention of it can professionally destroy you. It has been assayed by the Washington Post to be the most contentious subject the English langage can utter, muble or scream
Could it be a mass anamnesis of a Velikovskyean time when infinitessimal dilutions were employed in the destruction of a highly advanced society that allowed supramolecular chemistry to be sprayed indiscriminatly?
I once got a letter from the legendary Jacques Benveniste, I forget what it was in response to . . I thjnk it was in response to James Randi’s trying tp use him and Brian Josephson . . this was like twenty years ago, it was during the time when I was responding to James Randi’s offer to the homeopathy fraternity of one million dollarrs to prove homeopathy, and Randi was dodging one of my tests . . as an excuse to avoid a showdown with me over his offer to pay it for a test that showed a change in conductance in a supramoleculr solutioon He was trying to perform a little sleight of mind, claiming he had bigger fish to fry, going after Benveniste and Nobel laureate Brian Josephson, trying to get them to apply for the million and jump my claim. After having gone thru all that, losing his job at INSERM, his funding revoked and his reputation destroyed, all Benveniste could say was “Homeopathy is the devil’s pisspot.”
Prof. Josephson [https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/science-history-the-man-attempting-to-merge-physics-and-the-paranormal] rejected Randi’s invitation to him and Benveniste to apply for the million and sent Randi back to me, after which Randi sprung a heart attack and withdrew the offer to me.
That was 20 years ago . . now I know what he was talking about. All these remarkable cures whilethe ridicule, censure and rejection overtime slowly destroys you. Even Nobel laureate Luc Montagnier was driven out of France by what he called “intellectual terrorism”, and this was for the scientific crime of replicating Benveniste’s electromagnetic proving of supramoleculars and the “memory of water.”
But this, the censure of homeopathy and destruction of anyone who dares to reveal what is really only a secondary effect of supramoleculars. just the shell game of homeopathy. Put it this way: It’s as if Pandora closed the lid on revealing the physics of these secrets’ They come with a curse upon those who apprise them, a long, drawn out death sentence, every slow minute of torture like an hour to the betrayer. What I’m talking about is the nut of homeopathy’s morbidity, the potentially harmful and mortal effects of it’s actual actinic chemistry.
It’s radioactive . .
Now there’s nobody I know of who wants to know this, or anyone else to know it, that’s how radioactive the subject is. It’s like when I was a little boy, I was terrified of the Twilight Zone twisted reality science fiction TV series. I couldn’t even stand hearing the music. Likewise, I have come to the point where sticking letters to the page to make words, words to make sentences, sentences book whereopon those stacks I stand on my hind legs and bray “You reader, me John!”
I’m reliving those days now. Writing this particular blog is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do. The stress of losing my wife and parents, probate, dealing wqith the overwhelming accumalation of material thing of my family and their disposition I’ve developed
Frank Odds @John Benneth on Thursday 14 March 2019 at 15:40
“It never ceases to amaze me, the total ignorance you (and your pal Dullman) are willing to display to the public. “Let us begin with replacing Avogadro’s Constant with Kolrausch’s Law for Infinite Dilution”. Sorry, no. You can’t replace Avogadro’s constant; both are valid. Kolrausch’s Law is valid only for low electrolyte concentrations. Avogadro’s constant defines the number of molecules in a one molar solution. It therefore predicts for a given starting concentration of a substance, the dilution at which there are no molecules of solute left — the point at which Kolrausch’s Law becomes pointless.
“For homeopathic dilutions, the point at which there are no molecules left is any dilution >12C.
“In any case, what the heck does molar conductivity have to do with treating disease? Put a drop of a 30C preparation on a sugar pill and you immediately invalidate Kolrausch’s requirements anyway
Frank,
Actually you’re wrong about 12c being the molecular limit in step dilutions . . it happens much earlier than that.
As hydrolysis dissociates the molecules in dilution, conductivity of the solution increases, revealing a phase shift from molecule to electron, particle to wave. This happens when the molecular solute hits 1ppm, at approx. the sixth decimal dilution. As mass is reduced, energy increases. There are a number of tests that reveal it. The dilution of chlorine in tap water is about 5X, btw, 10ppm I reckon. It dissipates quickly, due to dissociation.
So you can dump Avogadro, it’s irrelevant to the chemistry of homeopathy. Dielectric tests, Tritium measures, beta scintiilation, low EM signal detection show conclusively supramolecular homeopathics are radiometric.
Not only have we been ignoring chemical tests that define supramolecular homeopathic solutions, we’ve been ignoring how deadly homeopathic remediess can be, and of course this doesn’t meet the squander of either homeopathy enthuiast or debunker alike. Top homeopath George Vithoulkas joined Randi in condemning Benveniste when the French scientist biochemically demonstrated how homeopathically trained water could set off a trained Randi, ignorant of molecular dissociation and supramolecular chemistry.
Prof. Ernst is who I fathom to be homeopathy’s greatest opponent. Josephson disagrees. He says it’s British pharmacologist Prof. David Colquhoun at University College in London for the hellfire he rained down on us over my lecture on The Supramolecular Chemistry of the Homeopathic Remedy in Josephon’s Mind Matter symposium at the Cavendish Laboratory, dumping dozens of emails on the HoD, protesting my appearance there in 2010 in Cambridge, England.
I even invited my friend Uri Geller, who wisely begged off attending and remote viewed it from his White House style mansion on the Thames.
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The bugbomb I left with Ernst and company was labelled “Murder by Homeopathy.”
Response to Ernst: Certainly as a self professed TRAINED homeopath you are aware of aggravations, doctor?
AGGRAVATION
Mary Baker Eddy, the 19th century founder of Christian Science, also a homeopath, student of Jahr, married to and divorced from a homeopath, and the adoptive mother of a homeopath, in her opus work, Science and Health, relates one of her cases in which she gives a patient a placebo instead of potentized Sulphur so as to avoid an aggravation:
“A case of dropsy, given up by the faculty, fell into my hands. It was a terrible case. Tapping had been employed, and yet, as she lay in her bed, the patient looked like a barrel. I prescribed the fourth attenuation of Argentum nitratum with occasional doses of a high attenuation of Sulphuris. She improved perceptibly. Believing then somewhat in the ordinary theories of medical practice, and learning that her former physician had prescribed these remedies, I began to fear an aggravation of symptoms from their prolonged use, and told the patient so; but she was unwilling to give up the medicine while she was recovering. It then occurred to me to give her unmedicated pellets and watch the result. I did so, and she continued to gain. Finally she said that she would give up her medicine for one day, and risk the effects. After trying this, she informed me that she could get along two days without globules; but on the third day she again suffered, and was relieved by taking them. She went on in this way, taking the unmedicated pellets, — and receiving occasional visits from me, — but employing no other means, and she was cured.”
So here is what impresses me as a relatively naïve homeopath, as most seem to be, almost as naïve as their critics, who in giving homeopathic medicines “began to fear an aggravation of symptoms from their prolonged use.” If these presumably inert “medicines” are incapable of producing an effect due to their benign chemistry, why is it a homeopath is giving an intended placebo to avoid an “aggravation”, illness intensified by an overdose, unless by experience and education she was aware of the likelihood of it?
I was brought onto the scene of a man lying dead in the street, surrounded by crouching paramedics, like Muslims throwing dice in a mosque. I knew of his case second hand from a relative. He was suffering from post-alcoholism, internal tumors and pancreatis (see Clarke, and died after drinking what was a small bottle of homeopathic Calcarea Arsenicosa , an LM, (see Clarke,Calc. Ars.) which caused the tumors to suddenly suppurate. Unfortunately they didn’t do an autopsy to plumb my assertions.
Omnes: “Homeopathics are nothing but pure water/ethanol joking as “medicine. Since when does the placebo effect kill somebody?”
Exactly the best defense for a homeopath’s incompetence. If it’s treated as placebo then it relieves the homeopath of a huge liabilty, leaving it to God to separate the men from boys, or with deference to sex and fairness, the women from the girls. And maybe this is how it should be . .
I have a serious condition that has me in its throws, and counting a Banerji protocol as one, five homeopaths who without agreement on even one have recommended 11 different remedies in low to high potencies. With the overlap in symptoms they treat, each prescription could be right. For exanole, there are 24 different substances found in the materia medicas prescribed for the shaking palsey or paralysis agitans, better known nowadays as Parkinson’s, and who knows how many there are for just plain paralysis. Or they all could be ineffective.
Well, have I or have I not nailed the diathesis?
LIFE SENTENCE
Here is James Kent regarding grafting on symptoms for life:
“Crude drugs do not impress the vital force, so lastingly, but an individual who is thoroughly sensitive and properly sensitive, as sensitive of contagion, then if you undertake to prove by giving it night and morning, you will rivet upon him a life-long miasm.
“If you have given a medicine, wait for the symptoms to come and go in the natural manner. To a great extent this is the tendency with sycosis, the tendency is rather outward.
“We see in the proving of a drug what we see in disease. When a gonorrhoea is contracted, it goes through the prodromal period and then comes the disease, which, if let alone, has in its nature a tendency to eradicate itself from the economy, and then the patients do not suffer from lasting conditions.
“In the old school, they always suppress the discharge, and there are those in the new school who do little better.
“The frequent repetition by which one is exposed, would not increase the gonorrhea itself, because the susceptibility is satisfied.
“The taking of more of the drug to prove it does not do so much harm, provided the one who is directing the proving realizes when the symptoms begin to rise, and then stops the drug.
“Now if we go on with the proving by repeating the doses after the symptoms come on, we force the drug into the economy when he is already poisoned, and by this means we get a confusion in the symptoms, the drug disease engrafted upon that individual for life.” Kent, Lectures, Thuja
Here’s Kent on the inevitability of murdering someone using supramoleculars:
POWERFUL ENOUGH TO KILL
“It might be dangerous to administer these medicines that have a tendency to cause suppuration in such, and you should at least proceed cautiously in using them. After you have seen a great many cases you will find that you have killed some of them. If our medicines were not powerful enough to kill folks, they would not be powerful enough to cure sick folks. It is well for you to realize that you are dealing with razors when dealing with high potencies.
“I would rather be in a room with a dozen negroes slashing with razors than in the hands of ail ignorant prescriber of high potencies. They are means of tremendous harm, as well as of tremendous good.
“In contrast with Hepar (although Hepar is a form of Calcarea), Calc. carb. has no such tearing down nature in it. It does not establish inflammation around foreign bodies and tend to suppurate them but causes a fibrous deposit around bullets and other foreign, substances in the flesh. It causes tubercular deposits to harden and contract and become encysted.
“Many excellent homoeopathic physicians have said to me,
“I do not agree with you as to the danger of Sulphur in phthisical cases. I have cured cases of phthisis with Sulphur.”
“So have I many of them. But I did not refer to curable cases, but to those cases which are well developed and have gave symptoms. It is well to know all the elements in the case; then if you have administered a remedy and killed your patient, you know at least what you have done.
“It is better to know what you have dne if you have killed your patient, than to be ignorant of it and go on and kill some more in the same way.”
Kent, Lectures, Hepar sulph
For those who may not know, Kent is widely recognized as one of the greatest homeopaths of all time.
Wikipedia, which belongs to Ernst side of the equation and runs to him for assurances thar homeopathy is plain water says, “James Tyler Kent (1849–1916) was an American physician best remembered as a forefather of modern homeopathy. In 1897 Kent published a massive guidebook on human physical and mental disease symptoms and their associated homeopathic remedies entitled Repertory of the Homeopathic Materia Medica, which has been translated into a number of languages. It has been the blueprint to many modern repertories used throughout the world and even remains in use by some homeopathic practitioners today.”,
So let me pose this question to Prof.Ernst and his followers and the countless others who believe homeopathic medicines are inert, how is it that a physician of Kent’s stature is writing indelibly to no benefit to himself about what has been an overwhelmingly strident, putative belief, supported by academia and governments, that thesse supramolecular medicine have no action on the human economy other than what can be dreamed up by placebos?
Kent’s frank admission of the potential permanent and terminal effects of homeopathic remedies should give immediate pause if not dire alarm to the Craft, manufacturers and authorities, and a call to action. But what comes next shouuld make your hair stand on end , ,
The Materia Medica of the Nosodes by Henry Clay ALLEN, M. D.
PROVINGS OF THE X-RAY.
Here is a field of action in which the potentized dynamic remedy bids fair to be unrivaled, for there is no known homeopathic agent, either crude or potentized, that in its primary action is so deep-seated or long-acting in results. Neither is there any known agent that will more surely suppress and render incurable many chronic diseases as this, or none which better illustrates what Shakespeare said so long ago, that,
“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread,” or where
“A little learning is a dangerous thing,
Drink deep or touch not the Pyerion spring.”
There is no therapeutic agent that so often cures, and so often fails where we think it ought to cure, in its empirical use, as this. If when its empirical use has roused latent vitality and restored suppressed symptoms we could correctly observe and interpret them, and for them find the similimum, what possibilities lie in the future ?
As maintained by Hahnemann, Hering and Fincke and demonstrated by the work of the Austrian Provers’ Union, the dynamic potentized drug is the chief factor in both proving and healing.
Like Magnetis Polus Australis and other imponderabilia, electricity and the X-ray are both capable of potentization, and the potentized dynamic remedy is just as superior to the crude drug as Aurum, Lycopodium, Silicea or Sulphur.
A very able description of the discovery of the X-ray by Professor Roentgen was given in the Homeopathic Physician (March, 1896), by Dr. Walter M. James, and concluded with the words :
“Why should not the homeopathist seek to procure a proving of the effects of the X-ray upon the animal economy of the human being ? An inviting field is there opened up to the experimenters of our school. May it soon be cultivated !”
March 27, 1897.
A drachm vial filled with absolute alcohol was exposed to a Crook’s tube in operation for half an hour, and then brought up to the sixth centesimal potency. With this smallest globules were moistened and the vials containing them presented to the members of the Brooklyn Hahnemannian Union, which met the same evening in regular session.
Of course everyone was curious of trying the new remedy and took a small number of globules on the tongue at once, and lo ! it began to reveal its existence immediately, and during the two hours of our being together a number of symptoms were observed, which were at once announced and taken down by our diligent Secretary. Some of the members from that time have been seriously affected, that they would not for any consideration try any more of that mysterious power.
The following is a narrative of its action upon the several provers, being perfectly healthy up to that time, which lasted from the beginning to two months. The action reveals not only new symptoms, but also hunted up many old ones.
If it is assumed that glass is opaque to the X-ray, it was not so in our case, for the alcohol in the vial was certainly affected by it, as the result of the provings show. If the X-ray penetrates certain tissues of the body in order to make the condition of the opaque organs, such as the bones and foreign bodies contained in the body, visible, it also shows its penetration into that invisible interior of the human being, which is under the dominion of the life-force.
Dr. Alice B. Campbell, one of the provers, said :
“Dr. Fincke presented each of us with a bottle of the X-rays, and said : ‘It is a sample, you can take a dose.’ Each of us took a dose. I thought it was such a low potency that it would not have any effect, and that was the reason I took it. We did not know what it was going to do. I took just the one dose.”
I was in the best of health and spirits when I began to use the X-ray ; was a healthy girl, never had a doctor until pregnancy.
Nov. 24, 1906. A lady, aged 56, hereditary cancer in her family ; mother died of it at 52. For an injury of right breast, which resulted in a tumor, which would probably develop into cancer, the X-ray was used for months, reduced its size and entirely relieved the pain. Some time after a stiffening of neck on left side appeared, to which little attention was paid.
Suddenly one morning it went to right side, with intense pain, from which I have never been free for a moment since. Pain severe every night, and occurs in paroxysms during the day. Sudden “cricks” attack first one side, then the other < on getting cold, and turning the head nearly produces convulsions. The pain is more severe behind the ears,, the mastoid process. A sickening grating is heard between the bones of the cervical spine on turning the head. Skin behind the ears red and sore to touch.
The grating is heard and felt in nearly all the joints, especially the shoulders ; toe pains are ‘steady, but at times will appear in sharp “cricks,” then in streaks down the course of the nerves < by moving head or neck ; moving the head on pillow at night is agony. Sometimes the pain is relieved on keeping perfectly quiet, again gentle motion relieves.
Have read all the stiff neck symptoms in Lippe, Hering, Raue, T. F. Allen and other works ; the indicated remedy has failed to give me slightest relief.
Dec. 1, 1906. Last three days left side of head and neck pain intensely and constantly, at times paroxysms of cramping pain in cord, from left shoulder to head, and sharp shooting pain in head, back and above left ear. Cords feel too short. Only relief I have is in walking the floor. Skin is so sore, cannot bear the slightest touch, though hard pressure relieves for an instant. I am nearly mad with pain. (Dr : G– has said frequently in the last month that he was afraid that I was getting too much X-ray ; I though not, although I thought it very queer he could not relieve my pain.)
Jan. 9, 1907. Have taken no X-ray treatment since Nov. 23d. Have not been out of the house for six weeks. Suffered torture for four weeks at every motion of head, neck or shoulders. The neuralgic pains were torturing, and the best selected remedies had little or no effect.
Spigelia partially relieved severity of pains, but they appeared on the right side of head and neck, yet never left the left side for an instant. Atropin relieved the right sided pain for 24 hours, but neck and shoulder are still lame. I now have no severe pain, if I lie still on left side of face and body, but am unable to lift head from pillow without taking my hands, and then only by a slow circular motion.
I can sit up or stand for 15 or 30 minutes, and then clutching, shooting, aching pains begin behind left ear, and in muscles of left side of neck, and I must lie down on left side, and in a few minutes am free from pain. The stinging, contracting of the muscles relieved, but the pain in back. of head is still persistent. Massage, at times, has given slight relief, at other times the slightest touch is so painful that it cannot be borne. Heat relieves the pains at times, but Arsenic does not.
Jan. 14. Improving some ; yesterday could lie with a much higher pillow, first time in six weeks. Should be able to bear the pains could the darting, aching, clutching pain in the bone behind the left ear, which makes its appearance every time I sit up over twenty minutes, be relieved. The stinging, contracting pain is better, and notwithstanding all the suffering from the last few weeks, I do not look as if I had been ill ; color good and gaining weight.
The tumor in breast is softening some, and decreasing in size.
The X-ray treatment was always the very lightest possible, and never once colored the skin red, although tanning it very brown. Took it at first but once a week ; the effect being so good, applied it every third or fourth day.
The first pain I had was a slight stiffness of neck on left side. In March it was only felt on turning in bed at night ; increased slightly and gradually until Nov. 1st ; though I had one severe paroxysm of pain in right side of neck in May, relieved by hot applications, which still give some relief at times. Sitting in the hot sun shining on my neck gives some relief. Have suffered intensely of late from flushes of heat, similar to those I had during climacteric ; better afternoons and evenings.
The back of head at times seems perfectly well-next moment cannot bear slightest touch or lift my head from the pillow without great pain on both sides in muscles of neck. left
1. Dr. B. L. B. B., after one dose of X-ray 6 cent.
A magnetic thrill in right hand extending up forearm, immediately.
No particular symptoms the next day.
Next morning awaked earlier than usual by dull aching in the left side of occiput, and immediately in left sacro-iliac region, then on posterior aspect of left thigh and calf, a dull ache.
These pains extend from above downward, not severe, lasting fifteen minutes.
In afternoon suddenly a sharp ache in left side of occiput on a small area. This occurred two or three times at intervals of some hours without regularity.
After that in the course of two or three days a trouble which he had once before, a catarrhal condition of inflammation of rectum with discharge of mucus, slightly bloody, after action of bowels.
Corns on soles of feet more sensitive than formerly, consisting of thickening of cuticle, and sometimes a little pin-head depression which does not scale off.
2. Dr. Miss Alice B. C., after one dose X-ray 6 cent.
A feeling on the external orbital margin as if it might be an ache, immediately.
Buzzing in right ear with pressure extending to temples.
Bearing down of eyelids.
Woke with headache next morning, continuing at intervals during whole day.
A pressing across forehead, with a miserable feeling generally as though going to be sick.
Sleepy with headache.
Bloody mucus from nose.
No appetite for anything, only sweet pudding or cake most tolerable.
Aversion to meat.
Heaviness and fullness in lower abdomen after eating small quantity.
Uneasy feeling in lower abdomen at intervals like fomentation, as though diarrhea would follow.
Most distress after midday and evening meal. Abdomen distended with full feeling.
(Pulsatilla, which a year ago helped for months a train of symptoms, had only very slight effect.
Drawing gnawing in the region of appendix as though inflammation were beginning.
Sensation in right lower abdomen as though bubbles were forming and wanting to burst (relieved by Taraxacum for twenty-four hours).
Flatulence with ineffectual desire for stool.
Seven days after taking the medicine was roused out of bed at 4 A. M. with desire for stool, and complete evacuation of immense quantity followed by nausea and vomiting, profuse sweat.
Colicky pain in right lower abdomen, sometimes extending behind hip, and retained urine.
Tenesmus vesicae continuing for twelve hours to 4 P. M., when the urine came freer.
Vomiting ceased though colic-pains remained for twelve days.
Moving aggravated pains especially on right side of abdomen, which seemed to adhere to the walls, feeling as if being torn off. Had to keep a large towel-pad between abdomen and thigh to support abdomen and prevent the excruciating pain.
Ate nothing for three days.
Thirst for cold drinks, though nothing tastes good. Tongue thickly coated.
Breath foul.
Only snatches of sleep during these twelve days, always followed by terrible mental depression, did not want to answer questions, did not want to see anybody nor speak to anybody, misanthropy.
Chills as soon as beginning to sleep running up back, preventing sleep.
Dreams of distressing nature.
Recurrence of a dream that used to trouble her many years ago.
This dream was repeated at wide intervals over twenty years ago. Now it came every night for five times.
Seven days from beginning of the attack had a return of renal colic with vomiting, continuous nausea, cold sweat and retention of urine on left side. A clutching pain from kidney to bladder that never relaxed for four hours, causing the wildest demonstration of agony, ghastly face, blue rings around sunken eyes, violent trembling, frightful restlessness, cold sweat, urine retained in ureter, giving a perfect picture of Tabacum which also relieved the symptoms. As soon as the pains in the ureter relaxed, the urine seemed to fill up the bladder and then passed without pain. Some spasm remained and was relieved by Cantharis in five minutes. (He had something like this before, about a year ago, by all means not so severe, a mere strangury.)
Varicose veins inside of knees and legs, with swelling and soreness (after years returned).
The palms of the hands, which were rough and scaly and bleeding at times, became entirely smooth during proving. Healing action. After that the hands went back to former condition while general health improved.
Prostration for a long time.
During the continued action of the X-ray she suffered so much that for some time she had to take medicine to counteract it. All these symptoms have been thrown out.
3. Dr. John B. C., March 28th, 1897, took X-ray 6 cent., three doses in globules ten minutes apart.
Five minutes after second dose.
Sensation of fullness of head with slight full feeling in both ears, worse in right ear.
Feeling in head and nose as if coryza were about to commence, with some slight desire to sneeze.
Sense of pressive fullness starting from posterior prominence of vertex in a straight line to bridge of nose, followed by fullness in entire vertex extending to bridge of nose.
Tingling in both arms as of an electric current, or as if asleep.
Intermittent, slightly burning rheumatic-like pain in right carpo-metacarpal articulation extending from index-finger up outside of forearm.
Aggravation of fullness over vertex worse along centre to nose, worse stooping.
Dull pain in right sciatic nerve, worse on walking.
Wandering pains in chest, sticking in character, worse on right side.
Sticking pains in different parts of head and face.
Rheumatic pains in different parts of head and face.
Rheumatic pains in front of right thigh.
March 29th.
Bad taste in forenoon.
Disagreeable fullness of head all morning, with bland coryza
and stoppage of nostrils.
General tired and sick feeling.
Symptoms gradually increasing in severity after noon.
Headache gradually extending to frontal region, worse in centre of forehead.
Sense of pressure in centre of forehead.
Dull headache in morning, worse stooping and after rising. Symptoms all intermittent in character, they have all returned.
Sensation of sulphur-vapor in nose, with much sneezing.
Aching pain across top of head, coronal suture, on blowing nose and after it.
Pain in dorsal region.
Sulphur-vapor sensation in throat and nose.
Intermittent noise as of deep steam whistle in left ear, and ringing in head.
Mental processes not clear ; writes wrong words in letters.
Stitching pain in right upper chest, going through to upper part of scapula.
Rheumatic pain in left wrist and forearm.
Lame and stiff in back.
Aching whole length of spine.
Chilly while undressing in warns room.
March 30.
Constant ache in vertex, worse on waking, also worse coughing, sneezing, motion or head low.
Rheumatic twinge in last two phalangeal articulations of index and middle finger for a short time in forenoon.
Appetite diminished.
Nose stopped, worse on left side.
Throat painful on swallowing.
Sense of painful lump about left tonsil, worse swallowing.
Very vivid lewd dreams repeated night after night.
Dreams of strife, busy dreams.
Sleep not unrefreshing, though apparently dreaming al night.
Remark of the Prover.
This medicine resurrects old troubles that have been long dormant, and remedies that formerly helped have little, if any, effect against the renewed difficulty In five provers old symptoms were brought to light. In some cases the symptoms had been absent one year, some six twelve or even thirty years.
May 24.
No appetite for breakfast (an old symptom absent for years).
Re-appearance of an old slight pimply eruption on left side of forehead.
Persistent exhaustion and languor ; this last was marked and not attributable to spring.
Return of a slight eruption on outside of lower legs, burning when scratched, worse after scratching (absent for months) .
Observation of the Prover.
It seems this medicine might be used in three ways : left To develop old troubles or those which might become latent from any cause including suppression. 2. To develop acute symptoms already present as against its own pathogenetic phenomena. 3. As an antipsoric somewhat like Sulphur.
4. Dr. Miss C., March 27, 9 P. M., one dose X-ray 6 cent.
An indescribable sensation in esophagus, immediately.
Pain in right side of head above temple. Palpitation during evening, causing cough.
Pulsations greatly diffused and violent, provoking an exclamation which was repressed, accompanied with a desire to walk in open air, and entirely relieved by lying down.
Before going to sleep, dull pain in upper jaw on right side.
Scraping pain in lateral incisor, aggravated by noises and jarring of cars.
March 28. After waking at daybreak next morning sensation in dorsal region of spine, as if its convexity were anterior and drawn far forward, lasting but a minute, and followed by a very uncomfortable feeling in that region, lasting a much longer time.
In morning after rising and before eating, a cough caused by an irritation in larynx, accompanied by a pain in right side just above crest of ilium ; eating relieved cough, but side felt bruised when bending, or jarring, or pressing it.
Red, smooth eruption on right side of face.
Sore pain in cartilage of left ear, felt when pressing it, later in right ear.
March 29.
Pain darting upward in region of left ovary, when sitting, walking or standing.
March 31.
After eating at noon, a sensation of a long and narrow foreign body lodged in pharynx, unmoved by swallowing, aggravated by swallowing.
After this passed away, pharynx felt hollow and sore on deglutition.
Sharp pain at apex of heart, better by lying on left side.
Had always heat and swelling of feet in spring which is better now. Healing action.
5. Dr. St. C., after one dose X-ray 6 cent.
Threatening headache, pressure through temples, immediately
Aching of extensor muscle of forearm, going up to shoulder.
6. Mrs. E. C., after one dose of X-ray 6 cent.
Drawing, aching discomfort in right thigh through hip and knee down through toes, immediately.
Sciatic pain in right hip.
Palpitation of heart.
In less than a week began to cough, with tearing sensation in bronchi, hoarseness, palpitation.
Chilliness on moving or from draft.
Eyeballs sore.
Lame and sore all over.
Wave-like sensation as if would break out in perspiration.
Stools green though normal in consistency.
Teeth covered with a gray-green deposit. Menses dark green one day.
Second day of menses violent sick headache, pulsating pressure outward in forehead as if bursting, vomiting, pain relieved by hot water application.
Phlegm of greenish hue causing cough in crawling up.
7. Dr. L. M. L., after one dose of X-ray 6 cent.
Drawing in and heaviness across brow approaching nose and resting there.
Ears more clear from ringing and from dullness of hearing than for many years.
Healing action.
Rheumatic pains in right wrist and arm.
Headache across brow and a different pain in temples.
Eyelids feel sleepy and heavy.
Tingling like pins and needles in left hand.
Improvement of hearing continues.
8. Dr. F. H. L., after one dose of X-ray 6 cent.
Tingling in right hand, immediately.
Pain-across brow over bridge of nose.
9. Dr. Miss R. After one dose X-ray 7 cent.
Lower part of both legs asleep, tingling feeling as if from electric battery increased in right, immediately.
A feeling as if some one were drawing icy hands over the thigh downward aggravatingly slow. (Return of an old symptom twelve years ago after a nervous shock which did not return for five years.)
Three years ago proved Uranium nitrate.
Up to that time had never missed a regular menstruation, but it has been irregular ever since.
Had not menstruated for six months till after taking X-ray, when it was almost prostrating.
Three or four days previously felt from waist down as if bursting and wanting to hold herself up, with distention and weight in abdomen, relieved by flow, violent, profuse, without pain. Flow lasting seven days.
Mental condition upset, felt as if she would like to kill somebody.
Heavy pressure on vertex as from a hand (old symptom absent a year).
10. Mr. Davis S. took one dose X-ray 6 cent. 1897, March 28.
Next day mental irritability.
Trembling all over.
Body tired and exhausted.
Pain on right side of head passing around base of brain to left ear, followed by paralytic numbness.
Nervous.
Powerlessness of limbs.
Slightly sick of stomach.
A sensation of hyperesthesia or nervous concentration in bridge of nose.
Sore feeling across loins as after a heavy cold.
Fullness in ears, worse in right ear, worse by inserting finger.
Pressing outward in ears.
Sensation as of a cool drop of sweat going down left side of spine.
Sense of contraction across middle chest.
Chills going down back, followed by paralytic feeling in right cheek.
Muscles feel soft subjectively.
Tongue felt dry, rough, sore, scraped.
Soreness in small of back.
Sleepy and unable to sleep for some hours after retiring.
On rising in morning expectoration of considerable mucus.
Generally worse in open air.
Nasal discharge thin.
Mentally irritable.
Headache and soreness worse toward afternoon.
Mental and physical aggravation markedly pronounced toward evening.
Bitter taste.
Pain in left temple, worse at 8 P. M.
Contraction of chest at night, relieved by belching.
Slight electric current sensation in left side of tongue and face, passing over and disappearing on right side of face at 8.25 P. M.
Much expectoration of tough lumps as large as fingers’ ends, whitish like gelatine, raised easily.
At first had desire for sweets.
The sleeplessness, which was getting constant and troublesome, seemed to be relieved permanently by a bottle of Pabst Malt Extract.
May 1st. Drowsy at night when sitting up.
Drowsiness leaves the instant he lies down, so he cannot sleep.
Reappearance of many symptoms which occurred during an attack of inflammatory rheumatism, twenty-five years ago.
Painful bulging of left chest over the cardiac region.
Sensation in right eye as though bulging.
Right eye sore to touch.
On closing eye in dark sees old women’s and old men’s ugly faces.
A paralytic sensation extending from spine down left leg.
Twitching internally in various parts of body.
All symptoms worse towards evening and at night.
On inside of left knee sensation in different spots, painful as if hairs were being pulled out, worse on walking, better on rubbing and scratching.
Sexual desire lost.
Raising of jelly-like mucus, worse in forenoon, tenacious and tough.
Grayish expectoration.
While lying on left side, heart-sounds keep him awake.
Goes to sleep on right but wakes on left side.
Symptoms better after Bell. or Acon. for a short time, better from ale, which puts him to sleep.
Sleepy during day.
Waking frequently at night from no apparent cause.
Spells of feverishness, perspiration and weakness.
On straining at stool, a sore sensation in nates.
Rheumatic-like fever in trunk, pain steady and dull going steadily from trunk to legs and finally to heels, worse left knee, worse stepping on heel, on underside.
Head feels empty as though scraped out, worse at night in bed.
Can’t hold things in left hand, being powerless or clumsy.
All symptoms worse in bed.
Third day after taking.
Slight nose-bleed on left side at 4 :30 P. M.
Sensation of swooning at times during day and night, feeling like dying.
Rheumatic pains in limbs (an old symptom of rheumatism resurrected even to an old soreness in heels).
Soreness worse in legs and arms and around heart, dull and constant.
No hunger, goes till he feels faint, can eat plenty but does not enjoy it.
Frequent urination, worse after getting into bed.
Testes relaxed, impotent feeling.
Pressure in small of back as from congestion about kidneys.
Sharp stabbing pain in left temple, which staggered him, followed by clearing up of mental functions-the heart immediately felt this impulse.
Left chest bulged out (like enlargement of heart in old rheumatism twenty-five years ago).
A sensation in left side as if fingers pressed the cartilages in, followed by sensation as though something broke inside, with temporary relief.
Sensation of drops of water trickling down on inside of chest.
Wind around heart, flatus and flatulence as though diarrhea would commence.
Unnatural lewd or disgusting dreams, occurring on several nights, or several times in one night.
Proving of X-Ray
Mind and Disposition (X-Ray)
Clearing up of mental function after sharp stabbing pain in left temple staggering him, the heart feeling the impulse immediately.
Mental condition upset during profuse menstruation, would like to kill somebody.
Mental depression after snatches of sleep for twelve days.
Mental irritability.
Mental processes not clear, writes wrong words in letters.
Misanthropy during renal colic, did not want to answer questions, did not want to see anybody or to talk to anybody, being completely prostrated.
Head (X-Ray)
A feeling at right external orbital margin as if it might be an ache, immediately (the first symptom observed).
A pressing across forehead with a miserable feeling generally as though going to be sick.
Aching on top of head across along coronal suture on blowing nose and after it.
Aggravation of fullness over vertex, worse along the centre to nose and when stooping over.
Awoke with headache next morning, continuing at intervals through whole day.
Back of head at times seems perfectly well, next moment cannot bear slightest touch or lift my head from the pillow without great pain on both sides and in muscles of neck.
Cannot bear slightest touch, though hard pressure relieves for an instant ; > by walking the floor.
Constant ache in vertex, worse on awaking, also on coughing, sneezing, or head low.
Cords feel too short.
Disagreeable fullness of head all morning, with bland coryza and stoppage of nostrils.
Drawing in and across the brow approaching nose and resting there, immediately.
Dull headache in morning, worse when stooping and after rising.
Feeling in head and nose as if coryza would set in, with slight desire to sneeze.
Head feels empty as though scraped, worse at night in bed.
Headache across brow, and a different pain in temples.
Headache and soreness, worse toward afternoon.
Headache gradually extending to frontal region, worse in centre of forehead.
Heavy pressure on vertex as from a hand (old symptom, absent a year).
Morning awaking earlier than usual with dull aching in left occiput, and immediately in left sacro-iliac region, lasting fifteen minutes.
Neuralgic pains.
Pain across brow over bridge of nose.
Pain by lying on left side of face and body.
Pain in back of head > at times by massage slightly, also by heat.
Pain in left side of head and neck, intensely and constantly, at times paroxysms of cramping pain in cord, from left shoulder to head, back and above left ear.
Pain in left temple, worse 8 P. M.
Pain in right side of head above temple.
Pain in right side of head, passing around base of brain to right ear, followed by paralytic numbness.
Pains steady, but at times appear in sharp “cricks,” then in streaks down the course of the nerves < by turning the head or neck ; moving the head on pillow at night is agony ; > keeping perfectly quiet ; again by gentle motion.
Sensation of fullness of head with slight full feeling in ears, worse in right ear.
Sense of pressive fullness starting from posterior prominence of vertex in a central straight line to bridge of nose, followed by fullness in entire vertex extending to bridge of nose.
Sense of pressure in centre of forehead.
Sharp stabbing in left temple, followed by clearing up mental function, the heart immediately feeling the impulse.
Sickening grating between the bones of the cervical spine on turning the head.
Sleepy with headache.
Sticking pains in different parts of head and face.
Suddenly sharp ache in left occiput on small area, recurring two or three times at intervals of some hours, without regularity.
Threatening headache, pressure through temples.
Unable to lift head from pillow without taking hands, and then by a slow circular motion.
Violent sick-headache second day of menses, pulsating pressure outward in forehead as if bursting, vomiting, pain relieved by hot water applications.
Neck (X-Ray)
Aching pains in left side of neck.
Clutching, shooting, aching pains begin behind left ear and in muscles of left side of neck on sitting up over twenty minutes ; > by lying on left side.
Pain on both sides and in muscles of neck when lifting head from pillow.
Pain relieved on keeping perfectly quiet ; sometimes by gentle motion.
Pains more severe behind the ears-the mastoid process.
Stiffness on left side of neck, turning in bed.
Stiffness on right side of neck, with intense pain at night ; occurs in paroxysms during the day > somewhat by hot applications.
Stinging contracting pain.
Sudden “cricks” attack first one side of neck, then the other, < on getting cold ; turning the head nearly produces convulsions.
Eyes (X-Ray)
Bearing down of eyelids.
Congestion of eyes in forenoon, worse on rising.
Eyeballs sore.
Eyelids heavy and sleepy.
On closing eyes in dark sees old men’s and women’s ugly faces.
Right eye sore to touch.
Sensation in right eye as if bulging.
Ears (X-Ray)
Buzzing in right ear with pressure extending to temples.
Ears snore clear from ringing and dullness of hearing than for many years, an improvement lasting up to this day.
Fullness in ears, more right, and fullness in head.
Fullness in ears, worse in right ear, worse by inserting finger.
Healing action.
Intermittent noise as of deep steam-whistle in left ear, and ringing in head.
Pressing outward in ears.
Sore pain in cartilage of left ear when pressing it, later in right ear.
Nose (X-Ray)
Bloody mucus from the nose.
Congested sensation in head and nose as before coryza.
Flowing coryza with stoppage of nostrils and fullness in head, forenoon.
Nasal discharge thin.
Nose stopped on left side.
On blowing nose and after it aching across top of head along coronal suture.
Sensation of hyperesthesia or nervous concentration in bridge of nose.
Sensation of sulphur-vapor in nose with much sneezing.
Sulphur-vapor sensation in throat and nose.
Face (X-Ray)
Dull pain in right upper jaw.
Paralytic feeling in right cheek, preceded by chills going down back.
Red, smooth eruption on right side of face.
Slight electric current sensation in left side of tongue and face, passing over and disappearing in right side of face.
Stinging pains in different parts of head and face.
Mouth (X-Ray)
Scraping pain in lateral incisor, aggravated by noises and jarring of cars.
Teeth covered with a gray-green deposit.
Tongue dry, rough, sore and scraped.
Tongue slightly coated.
Throat (X-Ray)
After eating at noon, sensation of a long and narrow foreign body lodged in pharynx, removed by swallowing, aggravated by swallowing. After this passed away, pharynx felt hollow and sore on deglutition.
Foul breath.
Indescribable sensation in esophagus, immediately.
Sense of painful lump about left tonsil, worse swallowing.
Sulphur-vapor sensation in nose and throat.
Throat painful on swallowing.
Appetite (X-Ray)
Appetite diminished.
Ate nothing for three days.
Aversion to meat.
Bad taste in forenoon.
Bitter taste.
Can eat plenty but does not enjoy it.
Desire for sweets.
More thirst than usual.
Most distress after midday and evening meal.
No appetite for anything except sweet pudding or cake.
No appetite for breakfast (old symptom absent for two years).
No hunger, goes till he feels faint.
Thirst for cold drinks, though nothing tastes good.
Nausea, Vomiting (X-Ray)
Nausea and vomiting with profuse sweat after immense stool at 4 A. M., seven days after taking.
Slightly sick at stomach.
Vomiting ceased, though colic pain remained in lower abdomen for twelve days.
Abdomen (X-Ray)
Abdomen distended with full feeling. (Pulsatilla, which a year ago helped for months a train of symptoms, had only very slight effect.)
Colicky pains in right lower abdomen, sometimes extending behind the hip, and retained urine.
Drawing gnawing in region of appendix, as though inflammation were beginning.
Flatulence with ineffectual desire for stool.
Flatulence with ineffectual desire for stool.
Had to keep a large towel pad between abdomen and thigh to support abdomen and prevent the excruciating pain.
Pain in right side just above crest of ilium, with an irritation in larynx causing cough in morning after rising, and before eating ; eating relieved cough, but the side felt bruised when bending, or jarring, or pressing it.
Heaviness and fullness in lower abdomen after eating small quantity.
Moving aggravates the colic pains, especially on right of abdomen, which seemed adhered to walls, feeling as if torn off.
Sensation in right lower abdomen, as though bubbles were forming and wanting to burst (relieved by Taraxacum for twenty-four hours).
Uneasy feeling in lower abdomen at intervals like fomentation, as though diarrhea would follow.
Wind around heart, flatus and flatulence as though diarrhea would commence.
Stool (X-Ray)
Catarrhal inflammation of rectum, with discharge of mucus slightly bloody after action of bowels, in course of two or three days (a trouble he had once before).
Ineffectual urging to stool, with flatulence.
On straining at stool a sore sensation in nates.
Seven days after taking medicine roused out of bed at 4 A. M. with desire for stool and complete evacuation of immense quantity, followed by nausea and vomiting, profuse sweat, pain in right lower abdomen, retained urine, vesical tenesmus continuing for twelve hours, till 4 P. M., after which urine became freer, vomiting ceased ; colic pains remained for twelve days.
Stools green, though normal in consistency.
Urine (X-Ray)
A clutching pain from left kidney to bladder that never relaxed for two hours, causing the wildest demonstration of agony, ghastly face, blue rings around sunken eyes, cold sweat with trembling, frightful restlessness, urine retained in ureter (giving a perfect picture of Tabacum which relieved at once).
As soon as the pain in ureter relaxed after it, urine was filling up the bladder and then passed without pain.
Frequent urination, worse after getting into bed.
Great prostration followed this attack,
Pressure as from congestion about kidneys.
Retained urine, vesical tenesmus after enormous evacuation, vomiting for twelve hours to 4 P. M.
Seven days from beginning of attack return of renal colic with vomiting, continuous nausea and retention of urine on left side.
Some spasm remained and was relieved by Cantharis in five minutes. (She had something of a like trouble a year ago, but not so severe as this, only a strangury.)
Male Sexual Organs (X-Ray)
Sexual desire lost in man.
Testes relaxed, impotent feeling.
Unnatural or disgusting, lewd dreams on several nights, or several times in one night.
Female Sexual Organs (X-Ray)
After cessation of menstruation for six months it reappeared again, violent, profuse, without pain but prostrating, the flow lasting several days.
Flushes of heat ; better afternoons and evenings.
Menses dark green one day.
Mental condition upset, she would like to kill somebody (three years ago she proved Uranium nitrate. Up to that time had never missed a regular menstruation, but irregular ever since).
Pain darting upward in region of left ovary when sitting, walking or standing.
Second day of menses a violent sick headache, pulsating pressure outward in forehead as if bursting, vomiting (pain relieved by hot water application).
Three or four days before menstruation, felt from waist down as if bursting with distention and weight in abdomen, and wanted to hold herself up, relieved by the flow.
Air Passages (X-Ray)
Cough caused by palpitation during evening.
Grayish expectoration.
In less than a week a cough with tearing sensation in bronchi, hoarseness, palpitation.
In morning after rising and before eating, a cough caused by irritation in larynx, accompanied a pain in right side just above the crest of ilium, eating relieved cough, but side felt bruised when bending, jarring or pressing it.
Much expectoration of tough mucus as large as fingers’ ends, whitish like gelatine, raised easily.
On rising in morning expectoration of considerable white mucus.
Phlegm of greenish hue causing cough in crawling up.
Raising of jelly-like mucus, worse in forenoon, tenacious and tough.
In two cases of gonorrhea, obstinate in character, deficient in symptoms, on which to make an accurate prescription, due, probably, to the deep sycotic diathesis, the X-ray not only developed all the acute symptoms of original attack but revealed the remedy (Merc. cor.) which promptly and permanently cured the disease and an old catarrhal deafness as well.
In two other cases, which had resisted the best of treatment for months, the remedy developed numerous sycotic excrescences on glans and the symptoms calling for the similimum were sharply indicated, and it cured permanently.
The physical and mental incubus, which for months had made one patient’s life a burden, was immediately removed on the reappearance of the condylomata, which had followed suppression by injections and were subsequently disbursed by cauterization.
Chest (X-Ray)
Contraction of chest at night relieved by belching.
Left chest bulged out like enlargement of heart (old symptom of inflammatory rheumatism twenty-five years ago).
Sensation in left side as if fingers pressed costal cartilages in, followed by sensation as if something broke inside, with temporary relief.
Sensation of drops of water trickling down on inside of chest.
Sense of contraction across middle chest.
Stitching pain in right upper chest going through to upper part of scapula.
Wandering sticking pains in chest, worse on right side.
Heart (X-Ray)
Dull and constant soreness around heart, and worse in legs and arms,
Heart’s sounds keep him awake while lying on left side.
Painful bulging of left chest over cardiac region (old symptom of inflammatory rheumatism twenty-five years ago).
Palpitation during evening causing cough.
Palpitation with a cough with tearing sensation in bronchi and hoarseness.
Pulsations greatly diffused and violent, provoking an exclamation, which was suppressed, accompanied with a desire to walk in open air, and entirely relieved by lying down.
Sharp pain at apex of heart, better by lying on left side.
Wind around heart ; flatus and flatulence as though diarrhea would begin.
Back (X-Ray)
A paralytic sensation extending from spine down left leg.
Aching whole length of spine.
After waking at daybreak next morning, sensations in dorsal region of spine as if its convexity were interior and drawn far forward, lasting but a minute, and followed by a very uncomfortable feeling in that region, lasting a much longer time.
Awakened earlier than usual by dull aching in left occiput, and immediately in left sacro-iliac region, then posterior thigh and calf for fifteen minutes.
Lame and stiff in back.
Pain in dorsal region.
Pressure in small of back as from congestion about kidney.
Rheumatic-like fever in trunk, steady dull pain going steadily from trunk to legs, and finally to heels, worse in left knee, worse stepping on heel, on underside of heel (old symptom of inflammatory rheumatism twenty-five years ago).
Sensation as if a cool drop of sweat going down left side of spine.
Sore feeling across loins as after a heavy cold.
Soreness in small of back.
Upper Extremities (X-Ray)
Aching extensor muscles of right forearm going up to shoulder.
Can’t hold things in left hand, powerless or clumsy.
Grating heard in shoulder joints, as well as nearly all other joints of the body.
Healing action. (Afterward they went back to former state when general health improved.)
Intermittent, slightly burning, rheumatic-like pain in right carpo-metacarpal articulation, extending from index finger up outside of right forearm.
Magnetic thrill in right hand, extending up forearm.
Palms of hands, which were rough and scaly and bleeding at times, became smooth and natural during the proving.
Rheumatic pain in left wrist and forearm.
Rheumatic pain in right wrist and arm.
Rheumatic twinge in last two phalangeal articulations of index and middle fingers for a short time in forenoon.
Tingling in both arms as of electric current, or as if asleep.
Tingling in right hand.
Tingling like pins and needles in left hand.
Lower Extremities (X-Ray)
Drawing aching discomfort in right thigh through hip and knees down through toes, immediately.
Dull aching posterior aspect of thigh and calf in morning, from above downward.
Feeling as if somebody were drawing icy hands over thigh downward, aggravatingly slow. (This occurred first twelve years ago after a nervous shock and did not return for five years.)
Had always heat and swelling of feet in spring, which is better now, although it is spring. Healing action.
Lower part of both legs asleep, tingling, as if from electric battery more in right, immediately.
On inside of left knee sensation in different spots painful as if hairs were being pulled, worse walking, better rubbing or scratching.
Pain in right sciatic nerve on walking.
Rheumatic pains in front of right thigh.
Rheumatic pains in limbs.
Rheumatic-like fever in trunk, steady dull pain going steadily down to legs and finally to heels, worse in left knee, worse stepping on heel, on underside of heel (old symptoms of inflammatory rheumatism twenty-five years ago).
Sciatic pain in right hip.
Varicose veins inside of knees and legs, with swelling and soreness (returned after years).
Fever (X-Ray)
Chill going down back, followed by paralytic feeling in right cheek.
Chilliness on moving or from draft.
Chills as soon as beginning to sleep, running up back, preventing sleep.
Chilly whilst undressing in warm room.
Profuse perspiration on getting into bed, keeping him awake.
Spells of feverishness, perspiration and weakness.
Wave-like sensation as if it would break out in perspiration.
Sleep (X-Ray)
(Symptoms better after Bell. or Acon. for a short time ; better from ale, which puts him to sleep.)
All symptoms worse in bed.
As soon as she begins to sleep, chills running up back preventing sleep.
Awaking with a headache lasting all day.
Dreams of distressing nature.
Dreams of strife, busy dreams.
Drowsiness leaves the instant when lying down, so cannot sleep.
Drowsy all night while sitting up.
Frequent urination, worse after getting in bed.
Goes to sleep on right side, but wakes on left side.
Kept awake by heart’s sound while lying on left side.
Only snatches of sleep during these twelve days, always followed by mental depression, during suffering from nephralgia.
Profuse perspiration on getting into bed, keeping him awake.
Recurrence of a dream which used to trouble her many years ago. (This dream was repeated at wide intervals over twenty years ago ; now it came every night for five times.)
Sleep not unrefreshing, though apparently dreaming all night.
Sleeplessness constant and troublesome (relieved permanently by a bottle of Pabst Malt Extract).
Sleepy during day.
Sleepy with headache.
Sleepy, but unable to sleep for some hours after retiring.
Symptoms worse when getting into bed, worse after sunset.
Unnatural lewd and disgusting dreams, occurring on several nights and several times in one night.
Very vivid lewd dreams, repeated night after night.
Waking frequently at night from no apparent cause.
General Symptoms (X-Ray)
General tired and sick feeling.
Lame and sore all over.
Persistent exhaustion and languor, not attributable to spring.
Trembling all over.
Skin (X-Ray)
Reappearance of an old, slight, pimply eruption on left side of forehead.
Return of a slight eruption on outside of lower legs, burning when scratched, worse after scratching.
August 28, I took a dose of a few globules of X-ray 45m. for some urinary trouble, which ameliorated without being removed.
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September 13 I felt a stinging and smarting on a place behind the left hip joint while sitting at the dinner table. In the course of the afternoon this symptom disappeared and reappeared on the right side, precisely corresponding to the place on the left side.
Toward evening it burned like fire, and, on examination, a place as large as a silver dollar on the right buttock was red and tough as if the skin were abraded. On going to bed a blister as large as a hickory nut, not unlike a fish bladder, was present, from which smaller blisters extended down in a curve. The redness and roughness was enlarged to about three inches in diameter.
On being quiet there was no pain, but on the least motion or friction, the part burned like fire, or a severe burn. In the night the blister opened, and another had come opposite to the first, as large as a chestnut. The pains on motion, touch, or friction, continued like a real burn.
The skin was red, rough and inflamed, like raw meat, for four inches down, with small blisters of different size extending downward. The large blister discharged gradually, and a scab formed, which, under cessation of pain, fell off, so that by the end of September the skin was as sound as before.
This reminds me of a similar experience observed from repeated action of the X-rays upon the skin, resulting in a denudation of the tibia for the space of about six inches, as far as the leg was exposed to the rays, because it would not heal from an ulcer consequent upon an injury.
“On the red erythematous surface elevations begin to appear, of different sizes and which may be acuminate or papular. In the early stage they are barely visible, and resemble ordinary congestion papules.
If, however, their surface is scratched with a needle, a yellow serous slightly opaque fluid exudes and the papule disappears. These elevations, though of small size, are in reality vesicles.
They occur in groups or disseminated over the surface, and ultimately develop into vesico-bulle, or vesico-pustules which have the appearance of an ordinary eruption.”
” In a weeping eczema the exudation disappears after one to four exposures, and does not return.”
” In pruriginous eczema the itching often ceases after a single application.”
“On dry eczema the effect of the rays is most marked.” A single application is frequently sufficient. ” It is in the more obstinate, chronic, and recurring types that they are the most useful.”
To quote now from Dr. Hall-Edwards :
” The disease generally makes its first appearance in the form of a mild erythema around the roots of the nails. The nails begin to thicken and their substance to degenerate, until they become shapeless masses. The skin becomes uniformly red, and later small warty growths appear. These gradually increase in size and number, whilst the skin generally becomes dry and wrinkled. At this stage, apart from the disfigurement, the patient suffers no inconvenience.
The warty growths continue to increase in size, and the skin loses its elasticity to such an extent that it cracks with the slightest exertion. These cracks are very painful and difficult to heal. Pain of an almost indescribable character, which appears to come from the bones, and which is aggravated by holding the hands downwards, is felt. Loss of power in the arm muscles is also experienced. At this stage the skin between the warty growths exhibits marked telangiectasis, is considerably thickened, and is tied down to the subjacent tissues.
There is an ever-present sensation of burning and extreme itching, so that it requires no small amount of self-control to keep from scratching. The bases of some of the larger warts become inflamed, and the thickened mass may come away, leaving an ulcer which takes months to heal. These ulcers are so tender and painful that words fail to convey any idea of the suffering of the patient. They occasionally refuse to heal, become gradually larger, and may assume malignant characteristics, which demand operative interference.”
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Dr. J. T. Pitkin, in a paper read before the “American Roentgen Ray Society,” in 1903, thus graphically describes the sufferings of this terrible disease :
” For a description of the pain and suffering, hyperesthesia and paresthesia, no language, sacred or profane, is adequate. The sting of the honey bee or the passage of a renal calculus is painful enough, but they are comparative pleasure ; being paroxysmal, they have a time limitation.
Extreme tenderness to the slightest touch, hot and cold waves and flashes, warmth, tingling, pricking, throbbing, stinging, crawling, boring, and horning sensations, as if the parts were on fire and contained bugs and other living things ; feelings as if the anatomical structures were being removed from one position to another ; all of these sensations are proportionate to the depth of the inflammatory process.”
General Symptoms (X-Ray)
All symptoms worse in bed.
All symptoms worse toward evening and at night.
Body tired and exhausted.
For many years have removed the sensitiveness of nervous peons in electric storms with electricity cm.
General tired and sick feeling.
Generally worse in open air..
Lame and sore all over.
Mental and physical aggravation markedly pronounced toward evening.
Muscles feel soft objectively.
Nervous powerlessness in limbs.
Persistent exhaustion and languor, not attributable to spring.
Prostrated for a long time.
Sensation of swooning at times during day and night, feeling like dying.
Symptoms gradually increasing in severity after noon.
Symptoms intermittent in character, the first observed symptoms have all returned at irregular intervals.
Trembling all over.
Twitching internally in various parts.
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BENNETH TO ERNST: You having presumably administered homeopathic medicines, doctor, did anyone die while under your care? To deal with the guilt of knowing you actually killed someone by misuse of these materials would, I presume, drive one mad with anxiety and guilt, and make refuge in skepticism a lively comfort, a place to exercise your hubris and would explain the accompanying belittlement that often accompanies your responses to me. Or are you secretly being paid by the Faculty?
Finis?
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