Kent's case 44: Eczema-Mezereum

August 24, 1884.-
Mrs. C., aged forty-two. Eczema of twenty years
standing.
 
Eruptions on back of hand and wrists half-way up to elbow;
itching, aggravated by scratching; small, burning vesicles, drying down to
crusts, itching and burning after scratching, and becoming moist after
scratching. Violently worse from the application of water; considerable
burning in the vesicle.
Eruptions on back of hands: Arg.-m., Asar.,
Berb., Mez., Phos., Plat., Plumb., Stront., Thuj., Zinc.
Particularly eczema: Mez., Phos.
Burning vesicles: Bov., Caust., Graph., Merc.,
Mez., Mur.-ac., Natr.-c., Nat.-m., Nat.-s., Nit-ac., Phos., Sep., Spig.,
Spong., Staph., Sulph.
Eruptions, itching, made worse by scratching:
Amm. m., ANAC., Arn., Ars., Bism., Bov., Calad., Cann.-s. Canth., Caps.,
Carb.-an., CAUST., Cham., Kreos., Ledum., Merc., MEZ., Mur-ac., Natr-
c., Phos., Phos.-ac., PULS., Sepia, Silic., Spong., Staph., Stront., Sulph.
Itching, burning after scratching: Anac., Arn.,
Ars., Bovista, Calad., Canth., CAUST., Can., Kreos., Led., Merc., Mez.,
PHOS., Puls., Sep., SIL., Staph., Stront., SULPH.
Eruptions itching, becoming moist after
scratching: Ars., Bov., CARB-V., Caust., Kreos., Graph., LACH., Ledum.,
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LYC., Merc., MEZ., Petrol., Rhus-t., Sep., Staph., Sil., Sulph., and many
others not related to the general case.
Eruptions aggravated from washing: AM.-C.,
ANT.-C., Bov., Calc., Canth., Carb, Caust, CLEM., Dulc., Kali-c., Lyc.,
Merc., Mez., Mur.-ac., Nitr.-ac., Phos., RHUS., Sars., SEP., Spig., Staph.,
Stront., SULPH.
Mezereum 20m-One dose dry and Sac. Lac.
The burning and itching passed away in a few
days. The skin became soft and normal in less than four weeks, and has
remained healthy. She never had been entirely free from the suffering
caused by the eruption.
How much superior this expectancy is to doses so
large you are sure to have medicine in!
Why don't they bring on their cures?
Perhaps it is because this agnosticism makes them
doubt that they have made any. It seems here to please some of these
doubters. I was told that anybody could report cures, that such reports were
not to be admitted as evidence.
I therefore presented a paper on the sixteenth
section of the Organon of Samuel Hahnemann as an argument without
cures. I hear of no answer that has offset those statements of facts; again I
am coming with cures to corroborate the doctrine-these principles.
Hence I have so fully presented a very simple
case of a most natural chronic disease where washes and ointments and
alternatives had been used for twenty years, and in all antagonism had
never been met.
The true specific for the disease was met in Mez.
20m.
Cito, tuto e jocunde.
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