Kent's cases 43: Chronic liver. Natrum sulfuricum Lycopodium

October 10th, 1893.
Mrs. M. W., Age, 36. Weight, 200 pounds. Gouty
constitution. "Chronic liver." Enormously enlarged liver. Great soreness in
region of liver. Warm blooded woman. Red face. Gets up with bad taste in
mouth. Has taken everything (and will now obey.)
Formerly used a rubber cushion to prevent pain in
coccyx, cold hands. Very cold feet. Hyperaemia of brain. Fullness in head.
Urine scanty at times. Menstrual flow scanty. No pains.
Natr. sul. 20 m. One dose and s. l.
November 8th.
Pain in side much better. Old symptoms
returning. Before menses leucorrhoea with fishy odor. (Old symptom.) Has
always been much heated in summer, but never perspired. S. L. Milk
always failed with her children.
December 10th
Soreness and swelling in region of liver has
entirely disappeared. Fullness in head and pain in back part of head is bad
all the time.
Fullness in eyes; feels at times as if there was a
cloud over them; this disappears after closing eyes two or three times.
Dreadful taste in mouth, worse in morning. Drinks very little water.
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Perspires more than she ever did; arms warmer;
legs and feet cold. Gout in right foot. Heart very quick at times, often when
she only rises to walk across the room (always walks fast); notices it more
in the evening. Is generally a good deal swollen before menses. Always
feels better the two weeks after menses.
Soreness in breasts only lasted three days before
menses and was not so severe. Bowels regular, though more constipated
than she has ever been. Urine very scanty, light color, except for about ten
days before menses, when it is the color of orange juice. Not so much of
the fishy smell to leucorrhoea.
Natr. sul. 20 m. One dose and s. l.
January 18th, 1894.
After the first three powders vertigo, worse
closing eyes. Fullness in back of head and eyes. Red spot on cheek no
better. Nose, legs and upper part of arms cold. Rheumatism in back of legs.
Pain so severe at times that she cannot lift legs or straighten up.
Severe pain across lower part of back, as though
hundreds of needles were going in. Must keep clearing throat all the time.
Dryness in nose and back part of throat. Dreadful taste in back of mouth.
Urine darker before menses, clear and profuse after.
Odor of stale crackers. Menses last three days.
Pain in back came very suddenly as she was stooping over. Dreams in latter
part of night. Sore throat on awakening this morning, left side yellow. S. L.
30 powders.
February 26th.
Swelling over liver and around waist for three
weeks. Shortness of breath. Color of urine changed; like thick orange juice
in morning, natural in afternoon. Sharp pains about heart. Sharp pains from
sternum to left breast.
At times sensation of weight in region of left
breast. Pain in lower part of back. Bearing-down pains. Leucorrhoea for six
weeks. Has not had it before for twelve years. Dull, heavy pain in left leg
from hip to knee. Pain in left ankle, as though knife had cut through; lasts
about three hours and is so severe she can't step upon foot.
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Gout in fourth toe of left foot, formerly in right
foot. Head worse than for four years. Intense fullness in back and fore part
of head and eyes, Worse at night. Top of head sore to touch. Eyes feel as
though they would shoot out of head with burning pain. Breasts very sore.
It is within a few days of menses. Dryness in throat and nose very bad. Feet
and legs cold all the time. Deaf in left ear for six weeks.
Natr. sul. 50 m. S. L. 30 powders.
April 3d.
Fullness in occiput-dreadful. When tired, cloud in
front of eyes. Dry mouth; bitter taste. Dryness in nostrils. Crawling like a
worm in throat. Feels like sighing. Sore pain in breasts during m. p.,
continues after. S. L.
May 14th.
Bad taste in mouth. Fullness in head, worse at
night Heavy feeling in liver. Pain in hip bones, particularly the right, worse
lying on them. Return of gout in right foot. Menses on time, but flowed
only two days. Urine is better. Hawks up thick, offensive matter from
throat. Nose and throat still very dry. Red spot on face remains.
Nat. sul. 50m. S. L. 30 powders.
September 14th.
Rush of blood to head. Burning hands and face.
Pain in left side of the back (lumbar). Soreness at end of the spine.
Soreness in liver. Frequent urging to urinate. Menses regular, lasting only
two days. Before menses a fishy smell to urine; menstrual flow offensive
and greenish.
Natr. sul. 50 m.
October 2d.
Urinary symptoms amel. Leucorrhoea thin, white.
Feels wretched all the time. Head full of blood, face purple, spot on the
right cheek worse than it has ever been. Pain over eyes and at base of brain.
Sight seems blurred. Soreness in region of liver. Offensive taste. Great
desire to clear throat; dryness extending up into nose. Stiff and sore all
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over. Excessive nervousness. Fluttering at heart. All symptoms agg. from 6
A. M. to 1 P. M.
Natr. sul. c. m.
October 16th.
Sensation of fullness in head and body, with cold
hands, feet and nose. Menses on October 9th, three days late, flow lasted
only two days, but from that time till now there has been little discharge of
blood all the time; she took!Puls. one dose as head was so bad and she
hoped this would bring on menses; it did not make her feel any better. Pain
in back. S. L. 30 powders.
March 17, 1896.
Entirely free from symptoms until recently. The
last remedy helped her much. Very nervous. Palpitation. Pulsating all over
with twitching. Great flatulence. Eructation of wind and food, of all things
eaten. If she has eaten a little she feels as if she had eaten a full meal. Bad
taste in mouth. Tongue parched and dry. Menses very regular, offensive
odor. Pain in back of head when tired. Legs so nervous in evening that she
cannot keep still. Breasts sore when she takes off the pressure at night.
Feels oppressed before menses.
Lyc. 43 m.
April 18th.
For the first ten days after medicine she could
jump out of her skin. Good action of remedy. Left hand and arm numb.
Pain in the pit of stomach. Bloated abdomen before menses. Dreams much.
White tongue. Offensive taste. Palpitation. Skin not so dry. Perspires.
Burning hot on warm days, with pricking, tingling. Burning like coals of
fire on top of head. S. L.
May 25th.
Symptoms returning.
Lyc. 43 m.
Dec. 1st.
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Burning pain in stomach. Mist before eyes before
m. p. Pain in sacrum after m. p. Offensive taste. Difficulty in hearing.
Lyc. c. m.
Dec. 12th.
Very sore throat, red all over, yellow spots on
both sides, worse on right side, hurts on swallowing fluid; no fever;
heaviness in head and fullness; right ear aches. Second finger on right hand
very sore. Has used flaxseed poultice without relief. Sac. lac. in water.
January 21 1897.
Burning pain in stomach. Mist before eyes before
m. p. Throat still troubles her somewhat. Numbness in left hand.
Lyc. c. m.
April 9th.
Burning above the navel. Feels worse after
coffee; weak feeling. Symptoms returning. Has been very well since last
remedy until recently.
Lyc. c. m.
Patient now perfectly well. No aches or pain.
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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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Case 45
Headache.
Cocculus
Mar. 17, 1894.-
Mrs. Alice T ------- age 60. 1121 R ------ St.
Large, fleshy woman. Gray hair. Headache
"comes on me like a shadow"-between scalp and brain.
Has had these headaches for ten years. Feels as if
going out of her mind. worry, trouble. Must hold on to something.
Followed prolonged nursing and loss of sleep.
Sensation of opening and shutting of occiput.
Pains rolling, pressing, crushing, as if head would
burst.
Vertex and occiput as if bound. Had to roll head
and vomit. Pitches toward right side when walking.
Can hear what is going on when asleep, even
snoring. Cannot relieve herself by weeping. It is a burden to keep eyes
open. Could not sleep at all for several months.
Cocculus 30m. March 24. Improved.
Headaches seem to go down over her like a
shadow, looking or reaching up. S. L.
March 31. Improvement. S. L.
Apr. 7. Improvement. S. L.
Apr. 14. Headache again.
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From this date until May 12, 1894, she continued
to receive S. L., when she considered herself cured, and as late as March,
1895, there had been no return of the symptoms.