Kent`s cases 2 Abdominal tumor.

Case 2
Abdominal tumor.
Lycopodium
M. A. W., aet. 30, asks treatment for abdominal tumor, which is large
enough to give her the appearance of being about eight months pregnant.
She is a housemaid, and her friends will not go out with her fearing that
people will think they are associating with an unmarked pregnant woman.
She had consulted two surgeons who refused to operate because of the
rigidity and extensive adhesions, and also because of the sickly aspect of
the girl.
The face was indeed waxy and sickly looking.
These surgeons told her she would die from the tumor.
The tumor was first noticed five years ago.
It became prominent on the right side of the uterus and extended up to the
pelvis; was said to be movable until two years ago.
The uterus is now immovable and the tumor which hangs over the right
side of the pelvis is very hard, as large as a child's head, and cannot be
made to move in any direction.
June 1st, 1888. -
Pain in the pelvis now and then.
Swelling in the pit of the stomach not due to the tumor.
Swelling of the feet, indenting on pressure.
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Constant congestive headaches which she could give no description of,
only "it aches all over."
Eats but little, and what she eats causes nausea.
Constipation; no desire for stool; takes physic, hence no modalities of
value.
Goes two or three weeks without a stool.
Always feels a constriction about the waist, which most likely is due to
pressure of tumor, hence it is not a valuable symptom.
Sensation of great fullness after eating, and she mentions above that she
eats but little.
Menses fairly regular "with cramps."
She has hot drank water for eight years, as it makes her sick.
Feet burn so that she must take off her slippers to cool them.
Starts in sleep, and when awake starts at the slightest noise.
Restless sleep.
Pain in left side of abdomen.
Teeth decayed when young.
They are dark and bad looking.
Wants hot things; cannot take cold things into the stomach.
Pain in the stomach after cold things.
Pain and nausea after water, cold or warm.
Pain in left groin.
She had this pain before the tumor was felt.
Lyc. cm; one dose, and Sac-Lac. morning and night, dry on the tongue.
July 23rd.-
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The remedy increased the symptoms so much that she was alarmed and
would not return for many weeks, but now is so much better in a general
way that she returns to report and ask for more medicine.
Upon close questioning it was found that for a week or more her symptoms
were on the increase.
Her stomach symptoms at first grew worse, then improved and now are
worse again.
Lyc. mm. She got one dose and SL.
Aug. 2d-
Reports that all the symptoms are better, and she is feeling greatly
improved.
Aug. 31st.
Pain in pit of stomach.
Pain in forehead, vertex and temples.
Bowels no better. If she drinks water she feels so full and gets cramps.
Sleepless; starts suddenly. S. L. No change in tumor.
Sept. 15th. -
Feet do not swell now.
She vomits and has a pain in stomach after eating or drinking.
Lyc. mm.
Oct. 28th.
Symptoms all passed away, except that she has a pain in right side, in the
tumor.
Nov. 27th. -
No symptoms. Calls at intervals but gets only S. L.
Jan. 23d, 1889. -
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Symptoms returning, especially the stomach symptoms.
Lyc. mm
June 3d. -
She has been improving steadily and was free from symptoms.
Bowels move every three or four days.
Stool normal.
Feels more swollen than for some time.
Uncomfortable.
Bad feelings return.
Pain in right groin.
Feet swollen.
Headache in forehead and eyes.
Pain in lumbar region.
Lyc. mm. Feet burn.
August 15th. -
Symptoms have been gone since here last, but now all are coming back.
Lyc. 2mm.
December 31st.-
She has reported several times, but there, were no symptoms.
Bowels regular.
She can eat and drink anything.
She looks well.
She says the last powders have made her well.
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The tumor is what most readers will ask about, but has not been mentioned,
as the tumor was not treated.
The patient was cured and the tumor at last report was small; the uterus was
movable and with it the small tumor also moved.
She did not mind the tumor as she was so well and shapely.
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Case 3
Abrotanum: With Clinical Cases
Irritable, weak-minded, worse from mental exertion.
The head topples over because the neck is emaciated; the face is wrinkled
and has a sickly look; the temples are marked by distended veins.
The face looks old, the infant looks like a little old person. (Also, Bar-c.,
Iodine, Natr-m., Op., Sulph.) (If from syphilis, Aur-mur.)
The whole body is emaciated and wrinkled; the emaciation spreads from
the lower limbs upward (which is the reverse of Lyc and Natr-m.)
Enlarged glands, especially in the emaciated abdomen.
Diseases change from place to place (metastasis).
Mumps go to the mammae or to the testes.
Rheumatism leaves the joints and endocarditis appears with profuse sweat;
cannot lie down for the dyspnoea; sinking as if dying, pulse feeble.
Rheumatism comes on when a diarrhoea has ceased too suddenly.
Piles which get worse as the rheumatism abates.
Bleeding from the piles in amenorrhoea. (Graph.).
Hydrocele in boys.
Distended abdomen. (Ars., Bar-c., Calc., Iodine, Lyc., Puls., Sulph.)
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Piercing pains in the heart.
Piercing in the ovaries, mostly the left.
Wakes in a fright and trembles, is covered with cold sweat.
The extremities are numb and tingle as if thawing, after having been
frozen.
High fever after the rheumatism has gone to the heart.
The wasting child has hectic fever with a ravenous appetite.
Lives well yet emaciates. (Also Iodine, Natr-m.)
Abrotanum attacks the white fibrous tissues, the joints, pleura, peritoneum,
etc.
Gouty nodosities in the wrist and fingers.
Rheumatism goes to the heart, compare with Cactus, Dig., Kalm., Lach.,
Naja., Spig., Spong.
The grand features of this remedy are metastasis; marasmus spreading
upward.
Case 1.
Mrs. P. suffered from gouty deposits about the finger joints, which were
very painful during cold, stormy weather.
The joints and nodes were sore and hot at such times.
The nodes ceased to be painful and sudden hoarseness came; ulcers in the
larynx followed; great dryness in the nose and painful dry throat; sticking
in the cardiac region.
She lost flesh but the appetite kept good.
Calc-phos. had been prescribed by her former attendant.
After duly considering the case, Abrot. 45m. was given.
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She suffered for many days after this dose with a most copious discharge
from her nose and bronchial tubes; expectoration was copious, thick,
yellow.
Hoarseness ceased at once.
In a month she ceased coughing; the finger joints became painful and
swollen considerably.
In three months she had no pain and the nodes were scarcely perceptible.
She is now perfectly well and has been so one year.
She had only one dose of the remedy, as the case was doing well enough, i.
e., as the symptoms were taking the right course to recovery in the proper
way.
She suffered much pain on the road to recovery but I know of only one way
to cure these cases, and that is to let the remedy alone when the symptoms
are taking the proper course.
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Case 4
Rheumatism of left ankle and knee
Abrotanum
Mrs. T. had suffered from chronic rheumatism of the left ankle and knee
for several years.
She rubbed the limb with a strong liniment and the rheumatism was
speedily cured.
But it was not long before she needed a physician.
I saw her friends surrounding her bed, she was covered with a profuse, cold
sweat, sitting propped up on pillows.
Her friends said she was dying, and I thought so too.
She had a small, quick pulse; there was pain at the heart and auscultation
over heart, revealed the usual story, which is too well known to all, as there
are many such cases.
She was six months pregnant.
Gave her Abrot., and she slowly recovered.
The little one now bears my Christian name in honor of the great cure.
She has recovered, perfectly free from rheumatism, and the lad is now
several years old.
These two cases show what Abrotanum can do when properly indicated.
It is a powerful remedy and must not be repeated.
It acts many weeks, in waves or cycles; it is too seldom used.
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Case 5
Abscess on face
Tarentula cubensis
A middle-aged gentleman had an abscess on the side of the face just in
front of the ear.
Suppuration was advanced and the fluctuation was marked.
Silicea had done some good as it had controlled the pain.
The cavity was aspirated by a surgeon several times but it continued to
refill.
After three weeks there was no abatement of the difficulty.
The integument took on a new feature, becoming bluish, mottled with great
burning and sharp cutting pains.
The hardness was extending and the opening gave out a bloody thin
excoriating fluid of foul smell.
He was chilly and nauseated and had symptoms of pyaemia.
After one dose of Tarantula cubensis 12x an immediate change for the
better took place, no more pus formed and he was well in ten days.
The discolored localization became a bright red and then faded to the
natural color.
The nausea and general pyoemic symptoms were greatly relieved within
twelve hours.
No more medicine.
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Case 6
Aconite or Sulphur? - Pneumonia
Aconit
Sulfur
Take a case of pneumonia that has advanced to the stage of exudation and
let that patient get a little cold sufficient to arouse him to a state of mental
anxiety.
With a superficial examination you will find Aconite indicated, but just as
sure as you give it you will fail.
Give Sulphur at once and you will cure your patient.
Never mind the fact that Aconite has the superficial show.
I say in ninety-nine cases out of one hundred give Sulphur.
When I first commenced prescribing I gave Aconite and I never had
anything but failure, and have been disappointed many times by giving it.
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