Kent's cases 17: Bubo in the left groin Tarantula cubensis.

A young man came to me with a bubo in the left
groin.
He had been disappointed in that he had not
obtained relief from the treatment used.
His bones ached, his tongue was loaded, and his
breath smelled badly.
The tumefaction was hard and painful, bluish and
mottled, with great burning and sharp cutting pain.
It was discovered some distance around and the
heat was intense.
He took Tarantula cubensis 12x, and one powder
dry on the tongue three mornings in succession.
He returned on the third day after taking his last
powder and saying that he was poisoned.
He complained of a wild feeling in his brain and a
drawing sensation in the scalp and muscles of the face.
He was in a great state of mental anxiety and said
he felt as if he was going to lose his reason.
Mental



restlessness
countenance.
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was
marked
in
his
He could not keep quiet even after I assured him
that he was in no danger.
His primary symptoms had nearly gone and the
bubo had lost its bad color.
The next day he was much improved in a general
way and the bubo had nearly disappeared.
I saw him again in three days and the
improvement was going on rapidly.
The chancre healed rapidly and in one month he
told me he had never been so well.
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Case 17(2)
Cancer cures
(In private discussion.)
In cancer patients, when painful conditions arise,
for instance, diarrhoea or urinary disturbances, caution in prescribing is
necessary, that a remedy be not administered covering only the acute
condition.
Any prescription based on the more superficial,
acute disorder, not covering the deeper, chronic, carcinomatous nature, will
result in amelioration of the acute disorder only.
Meanwhile suffering from the deeper affection
will increase, and the progress of the deeper, malignant disorder will be
more rapid.
Any prescription, to be of benefit to the patient,
must have the nature of the chronic, as much as the nature of the acute
manifestation.
The aim of the physician, first, last, and always,
must be to find the remedy which most closely corresponds to the patient,
and prescribe for the patient, whatever manifestation that patient may
suffer, when the prescription is selected.
In cancer-patients, incurability depends upon the
fact that few symptoms except those of the cancerous tissue change are
obtainable.
The sharp pains, the ulceration, and the anaemia
are symptoms of the ultimate disorder.
Finding symptoms that preceded this period is
necessary for gaining any curative results.
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Ultimates do not indicate the remedy for the
patient.
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