Kent`s cases 92: Mammary tumor cured with carbo-an. Graphites Phytolacca

 

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Mrs. H. has had several children; she is about thirty five years old; she has
always had much difficulty with all her confinements.
The last one was comparatively easy, and yet it was tedious, owing to an
elongated cervix.
With the first she had an abscess in the mammae (r) and it was badly
treated, so that the cicatrix has always been a source of trouble.
Preparatory to her last confinement I prepared her as best I could, guided
by her symptoms.
The child is now some two months old and she is suffering with a hard
lump in the right mamma.
When I first observed the threatened trouble after the milk began to form,
she took Graphites without benefit; also Phytolacca, but only temporary
relief followed.
The milk mostly dried up and she now has a nodular lump with retraction
of the nipple, and there are lumps in the axilla; she complains of burning
and stinging in the lump and her menstrual flow has come on.
She says she has always menstruated during lactation.
The flow is dark and clotted; when she goes to sleep she perspires freely;
she seems greatly prostrated after a moderate loss of menstrua; she is
somewhat cachectic.
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For a choice of remedies we might arrange:
Burning in Mammae: Apis., Bell., Calc., Carbo-an., Iod., Led., Mez.,
Selen., Laur., Phos., Lyc., Tarent-c.
Stinging in Mammae: Apis., Berb., Carbo-an., Con., Kreos., Graph., Grat.,
Ind., Iod., Kali-c., Laur., Lys., Murex, Nat-m., Phos., Rheum., Sang., Sep.
Nodosities in Mammae: Bell., Carbo-an., Coloc., Con., Graph., Lys., Nit-
ac., Sil.
Cancer of Mammae, (Minton): Bell., Carb-an., Coloc., Con., Graph., Lys.,
Nit-ac., Sil.
Perspiration during sleep: Carb-an., Cic., Chin., Dros., Euph., Ferr., Jatr.,
Merc., Nux-v., Phos., Puls., Selen., Thuj.
Great exhaustion after Menses: Alum., Carb-an., Chin., Ip., Phos.
Menses During Lactation: Calc., Sil.
Neither of the last remedies correspond to the balance of the symptoms.
But it will be seen that Carbo-an. and Phos. cover the case, and the
menstrual flow, which is dark and clotted, is not so characteristic of Phos,
as Carb-an.
The exhaustion after the flow is more marked in Carb-an. than in Phos.,
though both have it in a marked degree.
"The flow weakens her; she can hardly speak; blood dark; (Guiding
Symptoms) under Carb-an., Carb-an. 3m, one dose dry was administered.
Four weeks, burning and stinging all gone; glands in axilla nearly gone.
After the dose the cutting pains became worse for a few days. Medicine
repeated in thirty-nine days. The lump has disappeared.
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