HOMEOPATHIC RESEARCH

-GEORGE VITHOULKAS
26. Mr. G.P. H. Large, stout man, nervous and irritable. Had been having many small boils in external ears and several styes, for which he had had Pulsatilla and later Sulphur. February 14 a small pustule appeared on the back of his left hand, and a day later, when I saw it, the hand was swollen, red and throbbing. On general symptoms I gave Silica high. He seemed a little better for a day or so, but the third night he had a chill and suffered much burning pain. There was also throbbing and pricking like hot needles, the pains extending to the elbow, hand much swollen and also the forearm.
Pain is better with hot applications.
Mouth dry and thirst for a glass of water at a time.
Tongue coated, red tip.
Aching in small of back.
Very tired and restless.
Jumping and twitching in sleep.
The case looked like Arsenicum, but I wanted advice and so I called his former physician, Dr. Fred Keith, on the telephone. He advised Arsenicum High, one dose. I gave Finke's 45 M and awaited results.
The first day was very uncomfortable, partly due to the fact that I positively forbade cigarettes for 12 hours, in order to give the remedy a better chance; but the night was better and the improvement continued steadily. A large amount of pus was discharged and the hand healed rapidly. Several years before, the patient had had a carbuncle which was treated in the classical fashion with deep incisions and it was several weeks in healing. He was not slow to observe the difference in healing and in his general health under the two methods of treatment.
27. A few years ago a man, 53 years old felt coldness in the hypogastrium, followed by shaking, heat and sweating, all at once. About a week ago coldness was felt again in the hypogastrium, with a sensation of hardness and swelling in the same region; cold feeling in the abdomen from cold drinks; coldness alternating with heat in hypogastrium; coldness with sinking empty feeling in stomach; coldness with prostration; feverish 1-2 times every night; rumbling in stomach; flatulence. Arsenicum 10M, one powder, gave a soothing effect at once.
28. Male, aged three months... The skin of the scalp and face is dry and scaly and has been so since birth, gradually getting worse. Has had no treatment thus far, on account of age. The infant is nursed by the mother. Arsenicum album, Cm. sk., one dose each, to mother and baby. We saw this case again after about two months, when the skin was perfectly smooth and free from any eruption. The infant has remained well since.
29. Female aged 60. Constant, incessant nausea, sometimes accompanied by vomiting and associated with great weakness. The patient felt better from heat and in hot weather. I am not including the common symptoms in these reports. Two year treatment with her former physicians [of the "old school"] proved worthless. Her last doctor, a well-known and broadminded man, said: "Go to a homeopath and he will cure you."
I was led to Arsenicum album on account of the weakness and relief from heat. This remedy, in the 6th potency, improved her at once and completely cured in about two months...
30. February 20, 1919. L.O. S., aged 59.
Dry, scaly eruption on left leg, began about two or three weeks ago.
Itching worse in evening, after undressing.
Scratches till part is raw: from 10 to 15 minutes.
Itching worse on scratching.
Smarting after scratching.
Yellow discharge follows scratching.
Lack of vital heat.
History of chronic alcoholism.
Arsenicum 1M. cured the man.
31. A woman, aged 40, March 19, 1867, got a most violent bellyache, with very frequent watery stools; had much fever and much thirst, but drinking little at a time; she was worse after midnight and towards morning. Rx Arsenicum album 2c, [Jenichen.]
March 20. About the same, neither better nor worse. Being convinced that Arsenic must be the most fitting remedy in this case, I gave her Arsenicum album 43m, [Fincke,] and had the satisfaction that she improved from the very hour. The bellyache ceased, also the diarrhea, the fever disappeared. The next day, patient was perfectly well and remained so. May 23, 1867.
32. January 7, 1869. Mrs. Quinlan. Varicose ulcer of leg, of six months standing; about the size of hand, dark, livid appearance. The ulcer seemed to spread by large blisters forming on the edges, filled with water; burning pain depriving her of sleep.
Rx Arsenicum album 200. Six powders - one every night.
January 16 returned - the ulcer healed to about the size of a silver dollar. She said that in less than one hour after taking the first powder, the burning pain ceased; she slept all night - the first in three weeks.
Rx Arsenicum album 11000, one dose.
January 26. Entirely healed. The skin where the ulcer was is as smooth as any part of the body.
33. In May 1834, an apparently strong and healthy forester, aged thirty-six, came to seek my aid against very bad fits, to which he was liable. For two years he was frequently attacked with the following symptoms: He felt a burning pain in the stomach, and, at the same time, there came on a pressure in the spinal column, which rose up like a warm wind along the back, behind the ears, and then into the brain. He then felt giddy and fell down insensible, in which state he remained for ten or fifteen minutes, when he came to himself again, and was then free from pain, but much stupified. In the intervals the head was generally well, but the patient felt not unfrequently a pressive pain in the occiput. Also he frequently had pain of a burning character in the spine. In the morning sweet taste, and after meals burning in the stomach and abdomen; bowels irregular, generally loose, with burning at the anus and scalding on making water. Frequent cramps in the legs. Several years ago he had had the itch, which was suppressed with ointments. Within the space of two months I gave him eight doses of Arsenic [6. ] At first he passed large masses of mucus, by stool, and after four weeks all his complaints were gone. I saw him again today, 1st August, 1835, and had had no return of them.