Kent`s cases 46: Gall stone colic cured Natrum Sulfuricum

Mrs. F. B. W., aged thirty-seven years, had been
examined by her brother-in-law, a surgeon among the allopaths, and
another surgeon, and was to prepare for an operation for removal of gall
stones, the week following her first consultation here.
 

When told that it was possible for her gall-stones
to be dissolved, without an operation, by the action of homoeopathic
medicine, she reported to her family and the surgeon-brother said that only
a quack would promise or presume to dissolve gall-stones with a remedy.
Accordingly the woman's husband appeared at
the office with denouncement of him who offered encouragement to the
wife that she could be cured without an operation. However, when the
query was presented:
"If your wife should be treated with a remedy, so
that she would be free from gall-stone colic and the gall-stones should
disappear and she should be strong, who would be the quack, the doctor
who gave the curative remedy or your brother?"
he unhesitatingly decided in favor of the
prescriber of the remedy. Accordingly his wife began with homoeopathic
treatment.
Nov. 2, 1904.
Has had a long siege of typhoid fever. Headaches,
followed by vomiting of bile, recurrent, for years. Pain starts in r. eye,
extends over forehead with a dragging sensation in occiput. Face purple.
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Mother had gall-stones and grand-mother died of gall-stones. Gallstone
colic, in August.
Pain > by heat. Sleeps with shawl over her head.
Very nervous; easily startled; apprehensive. Sacrum-pain extends to thigh
on r. side. Intensely fastidious. Cold feet: hot water bottle in bed at night.
Headache at menstrual per. for sixteen years, since her boy's birth. M. flow
thick, clotted, dark, only one day. Fecal evacuations light, when sick; then
dark, as recovers. Must restrain herself or would commit suicide. Pulse
slow at times.
Nat. s. 10m.
Reference to the repertory, with the following
symptoms:
Inclination to commit suicide; startled easily;
sacral pain extending to thigh; feet cold in bed; m. flow clotted; m. flow
dark; m. flow thick; vomiting during headache; vomiting bile; results in the
following totals for the most prominent remedies:
Merc. 14; Nat-c. 9; Nat-m. 14; Nat.-s. 12; Sulph.
20.
From these the selection was made.
Nov. 12. Nat.-s. 10m.
Jan. 3 and Jan. 24. Nat.-s. 50m.
By February symptoms of gall-stone and suicidal
symptoms had entirely disappeared.
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