Kent's cases 78: Headache periodical-after eating ice cream Pulsatilla Silicea

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A middle aged woman suffered from Sunday periodical headaches andnone of the remedies in the rubric for weekly headaches helped.
It was subsequently discovered that she had these headaches always after
ice cream and then it was seen that Puls. corresponded to her other
symptoms and that remedy cured her.
All the facts in the case should be gathered before prescribing.
Hasty conclusions are as dangerous as any form of negligence.
Our remedies will cure when they are similar to all the symptoms in the
case.
Some years ago it was necessary to listen second hand, through a well-
disposed woman, to the complaints of her sick sister.
The sister was under the care of an eminent Old School specialist for some
deep seated uterine trouble, which was called, in a letter from the doctor to
his patient, endometritis.
Local treatment had gone on many months and still the sister failed. Then
came the story:
"Oh, Doctor, you should hear her complain of these awful headaches at
night. She says there is a feeling as if she had a stone on the top of her head
and she cannot rest or give me any rest from that pressure until the gas is
lighted; then she goes to sleep.
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The odor of the room is awful from her feet."
This good woman took one powder of Silica, which she was to give her
sister on the sly.
The patient never needed a light in the room at night again. It cured.
Here was a supposed periodical headache, but it was a headache worse in
the dark.
It was supposed by the eminent specialist to be due to endometritis, but as a
fact the woman was sick; her uterus did not make her sick.
What a profound thought, when the doctor tells his patient that the uterus
makes her sick.
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Case 79
A perfect cure of eruption, ectropion, diarrhoea and finally of the man
Natrum Sulfuricum