Kent's case 9: Tubercular History Love and Mental Ability Revived

Now another strange case I may tell you: A woman had been sick four
years, declining steadily, when she came to consult me.
She had lost all her loves: had not the ability to exercise that function at all.
She was ashamed of it: did not like her husband; did not love her children:
and she said:
"What shall I do? Don't tell of it. I don't want anybody to kn


ow that I do
not love my husband; he is a good man.
And my children; I have lost all my love for my children."
She had no resolution whatever; was entirely irresolute: was irritable; had
no desire to do anything: it was all lost.
Undertaking any mental exertion brought much pain in the occiput; she put
her finger directly on the spot: she felt hot right at that spot.
Hers was a marked tubercular history.
From her recital I recognized that there was a difficulty-it was clear to me
that there was some obstruction in the passage between the third and the
fourth ventricles; it appeared to me that the cerebro-spinal fluid would not
flow out of the brain to accommodate her mental exertion, and then she
would have congestion.
I could strongly suspect that there were tubercular deposits in the brain; I
was convinced of this by her strongly tubercular history.
But I did not come to a conclusion until after studying her for more than six
months, giving her such remedies as I could.
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She would pick up slightly; and then within a week would drop right back
again; I would select another remedy, and after another slight improvement
she would again drop back.
Finally, I thought: Here is a tubercular history and here are the tubercular
symptoms; I am going to test her.
Putting her under a test with Tuberculinum bovinum 10m, she responded to
it.
She said, "Doctor, I am a new woman."
All of her loves came back; her mental ability revived.
She had 10m twice at long intervals and: had 50m twice, also at long
intervals.
She responded and felt better after the first dose; within three or four weeks
her symptoms returned and I gave her a second one.
She is now on the third or fourth dose; now, after about three or four doses
she is a new woman, perfectly natural in everything.
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