Kent`s cases 68: Constant heat of head and face. Naja

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Almost constant heat of head and face. Pulseslow, sometimes as slow as 45. Cannot endure any mental exertion.
Sweating of palms. Appetite voracious. Stitching pains in the heart.
Naja 45 m., one dose, cured.
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Case 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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Case 70
Swelling face and nose.
Silicea
Aurum
Kalium bichromicum
Arsenicum iodatum

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Girl, age 13. Considerable swelling of face and nose bones of nose very
sore to pressure, pain in bones of nose, unable to breathe through nose.
Two other children had disease of nasal bones and fetid discharges. Father
had died with suspicious symptoms. The mother could tell nothing, but the
case appeared to be specific.
Every question to the girl was answered by a shake of the head or "don't
know." She was remarkably stupid. There was much sweating about the
head, and from the extensive bundling up I concluded that she was chilly.
There was no discharge from the nose, but the great shining tumefaction
seemed to look as though pus must be forming somewhere. The nose was
swelled to unsightly appearance.
She got silica 5m. May 8th, and a few days later a copious discharge of
bloody pus came from the nose and for some weeks the discharge
continued as a laudable pus and the child improved.
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July 5th. She reported with a most offensive discharge, thin and ichorous.
The bones of the nose greatly affected and very tender. The swelling had
gone under Silica.
She received a dose of Aurum 75m.
August 1st. No discharge and there seemed to be no trouble. No medicine.
She remained away until Oct. 15th, when she reported, discharge returned,
thick, bloody and very fetid.
Sometimes the blood disappears, then it is yellow, but always thick, Aurum
cm., one dose.
Nov. 6th. There was no improvement. Kali bich., 45m.
Dec. 8th. There was no improvement.
The discharge was very excoriating, thick and yellow. Arsenic lod, 30th, in
water, one day, and Sac. lac.
Jan. 4th. Soreness all gone from nose and the discharge is thin and white,
and she begins to breath through the nose, Sac. lac.
Feb. 12th She can breathe nicely through the nose; no soreness in the bones
of the nose when pressed between thumb and finger, discharge scanty and
only slightly offensive, Sac. lac.
March 10th. Discharge increasing, becoming thicker and yellow, some pain
in the bones of nose and a stuffed feeling. Discharge burns the lip. Child
fully as stupid as ever.
Arsenic iod, 45 in, one dose, dry, and Sac. lac.
April 13th. Girl seemed quite well; there were no symptoms.
Her uncle said to me some six months later that the girl had made a great
change and was becoming quite bright and womanly. No nasal trouble.
The thick yellow discharge cured by Arsenic iod, is a verification of that
symptom in a proving made by myself, wherein this nasal discharge was
like yellow, honey. I have many times cured this symptom with Arsenic
iod.
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The proving was made with the 200th potency, and now verified with the
45 m. It may here be said that the discharge in the proving was gluey and
like yellow honey. This is a very valuable characteristic of this almost
unknown remedy.
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Case 71
Constipation.
Sanicula

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Long standing constipation.
Stools large, hard and difficult to expel.
She goes four to six days with no desire for a stool, and then she strains
until covered with sweat to pass a stool.
The left ear is deaf and the left Eustachian tube is closed.
Sanicula 10 m, cured without repetition.