Kent's cases 69: Pains and general weakness. Sulfur Phosphorus Iodum

Tall, slender young man, aged 21, blonde, writes
out the sickness he wants removed, says, he has been a great sufferer from
pains and general weakness, all caused from masturbation when a lad,
which he has been able to abandon.

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From his long letter the following symptoms were
considered useful:
For several years he had been disturbed by
pustulous formations all over his face and forehead. Bluish red
discoloration of face and neck comes and goes, which a doctor said was
erysipelas (?).
One year ago in the heat of the summer he
overworked in the harvest field, and was sick with what was called "typho-
malaria," fever, and it was three months before he could go to work.
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The following winter he coughed all winter and
the cough has not left him. In the following spring boils came out all over
him.
Almost constantly feels a constriction of the
chest. Headaches come about weekly. His back is always covered with
pustules. Common food distresses his stomach as soon as eaten. Trembling
from exertion and becomes tired easily.
Gloomy and thinks his habits ruined him. Says
his head hurts so from constantly thinking about his failing health. He
cannot keep his mind off his health.
The face is painful in cold air, and the nose is so
painful inside. His seminal losses were only occasional and I soon
concluded that the cursed drugs he had taken and the advice he had had
were worse than his youthful sins.
The cases coming by letter are often not what we
want, but what best can be obtained.
He took Sulphur 55m, and made good
improvement for some time, always thankful for much improvement.
Finally he got another dose of Sulphur cm, that
continued him in the curing way.
His cough was troublesome finally and he could
not lie on the left side, and the cough was worse from the cold air; taking
into account his shape he received Phosphorous 45 m. and improved again;
the cough ceased for a time.
Finally he wrote me a lot of symptoms that I
could make nothing of, except he seemed to have lost much he had gained,
was losing flesh, and had an appetite that he could not satisfy, "The more I
eat, the thinner I get," he writes.
He took Iodine 58m, one dose; Oct. 15th, another;
Dec. 21, same potency. March 8, he got Iodine 20 m., and he has never
needed any medicine since, and can work very hard and is a picture of
health.
There were no new symptoms after he took
Iodine, and when the symptoms would return and continually grow worse,
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he would get another dose, which shows that the first dose cured for two
months, and the next dose exerted curative action about two and a half
months, and the last dose finished the work.
He never failed to notice the positive curative
action of a dose of Iodine. It acted without aggravation. Amelioration
would begin in a few days after a dose, and steadily his symptoms would
diminish and his strength correspondingly increase.
It will be well to remember that this young man
had taken drugs with no benefit, and when the similar remedy was
administered he responded promptly. He knew nothing of the system of
Homoeopathy only as he was advised by a cousin that lived in the city, to
correspond with her physician.
This hard-working young man was bowed down
with fear, produced by reading the cursed charlatan literature sent out to
deceive the young, so that they will squander their money on advertising
doctors and patent nostrum venders.
Homoeopathy restores them when they are sick,
and removes their fears when they are not sick, and the family physician
should be the only adviser of all the young in his vicinity. He should be the
friend to all the children, and so hold their confidence that he first of all
will be consulted in those matters.
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