WHOOPING-COUGH

CURHD

WITH

PERTUSSIN

WHOOPING-COUGH
CURED
WITH

PERTUSSIN,
ITS

HOMCEOPATHIC

NOSODE,

BY

JOHN
41

HENRY
AUTHOR OF

CLARKE,

M.D.,

dictionary

of

practical

materia

medic

a,"

"homoeopathy

explained/'

etc.

"

There

is

truth

in

the

Hahnemann

method

of of

curing
the

like

by

like."

Roux,

Pasteur

Institute.

LONDON,

ENGLAND

JAMES
48
Threadnkedle

EPPS Street

"

CO.,
and

LIMITED,
60

Jermyn

Street.

1906.

k
1

PREFACE.

have

thought
the

it desirable

to

put

on

record this the

experience
for several
it is

described
reasons.

**

in In

brochure first should

is due"

place,
be that
of

well

that where

merit
'

ascribed the

merit of the

discoverer
cases

method with infectious

a

treating

of

disease the disease

i

remedy

derived of

from the the covery dis-

principle
should
.

itself,
of

have This Hahnemann

credit

his

discovery.
made

was

by

150250

Preface.

and

his

contemporary

disciples,
and had

Pasteur,
as

Koch,
last

Behring
named has

Roux,
the

the

candour trodden
"

to

admit,
Hahnemann's is

have

onlysteps. footin

in

There method the should

truth of
of

the like

Hahnemann

curing
Dr

by

like,"

are

words

Roux.

Further,
in

it

be

known

that
later

imitating

Hahnemann,
have
not

the

investigators
on

improved They
introduced
and

Hahnemann's

methods.

have

quite

unnecessarily,
experiments,
a

vivisectional have method which

they
and
a

adopted
of

dosage,

subcutaneous

injection,
with
is
no

are

fraught
This

little

danger.

danger

admittedly

Preface.

so

great,

that
treatment

in

the
of

case

of

Dr

Koch's
the

tuberculosis abandoned

method all but

has

been

by
The made

very

few

practitioners.
are

homoeopathic
in

preparations
way

such

that

no

cruelty
and Diseaseno

to

animals

is

involved,
is
run.

danger
viruses

to

patients
treated

are

in

the the

same

way

as

serpent

venoms,

and
of

pathic homoeoretain

preparations
all the

both

therapeutic
sources

properties
without

of

the
of

original
their This for the into

any

dangers.
is

the

first

of

my

reasons

putting
nosode

my

experience

with

of
in
"

whooping-cough
to

print

order

show

that

Preface.

to

homoeopathy
the credit of

and

its

founder

is

due

the like
be

discovery
other converted the
medicine and

that

disease-viruses,
may

poisons,
into

with

safety
;

remedies
cursion

and

that

late

in-

"

of

old-school
of

into
tions vaccina-

the

fields
is

seropathy
whether
"

simply
an

wittingly
the pathic homoeo-

or

not

invasion

of

"

domain.

My

second

reason

is,
have

that
been

homoeopaths
all
of
too

themselves take

slow

to

advantage
which this into

the

enormous

power of

department
their hands.
I

their The

art

puts

single
present

example
will be

which

here

Preface.

sufficient Given known-

for

the all

thoughtful
the
rest

reader.
be

one,

may
on

therefore

urge
to

my

homoeopathic
assiduously
leave it
to

confreres
this
new

cultivate

field, and
"

not

the

so-called
to

orthodox
in

"

practitioners
own

exploit
fashion
;

their

barbarous

or,

still

worse,

to

adopt
in

their

methods the method tific scienof

of

barbarism
and

place

of

enlightened

Hahnemann.

Yet served

another

purpose

may It

be
is

by
that

this the

book.

necessary made and

public
with of

should the

be

acquainted possibilities

power

homoeopathic

io

Preface.

therapeutics. cough
to

Now,
which of be

whoopingis

is

malady
and

known the

everybody,
can

which

treatment

intelligently
mater-familias.
is

observed
It

by
a

any

is

disease

which

generally
doctors

abandoned

by
the

old-school
reach
of

as

beyond
than of

remedies calm

other violence "Whatever attack last

sedatives the attacks of it

to

the

of

coughing.
year

time

the
is

the

commences,

bound

to

till

the which

following
is not

May,"
without This
in

is

tradition authoritative

some

backing.
serve

book certain As little

may

therefore
a

degree
a

as

popular general

educator.

rule,

the

public

care

Preface.

1 I

or

nothing
;

about

systems
do
care

of

ment treat-

but cured

they
as

about

getting possible.
the

expeditiously
order will the
to
secure

as

But,
the

in

latter,
some

public
to

have
former.

to

give
It in

thought public
who

is the

are

interested

having
more

successful than
it is in in is

treatment,

much who it.

the

profession

are

interested

administering
in

The

party

power
an

medical

-circles

to-day
whose and

obscurantist it
in

party,
students

interest

is

to

keep
as

public

the

dark

to

possible
here
an

therapeutic
instance of

reforms. successful which schools

give
treatment

by
in

method orthodox

is

scouted

the

J 2

Preface.

"

except
under

so

far

as

it

is

presented
the
crude

another
of

name,

in

methods vaccinations. be treated

serum-injections
If

and wish

the

public
and

to

in

civilised bestir

scientific themselves
about and

manner

they
understand
of demand

must

to

something
treatment,

methods

bine com-

to

that the
For

their method the

it

medical which

men

shall

learn best.

answers

public they
who

should the

realise

that of

is

are

masters

the

situation,

and

that their classes the

the

medical
But

profession
servants

are

servants.

of
and

all
if

need
is

looking

after in

public
the

neglectful
must

this
be

particular,

public

not

Preface.

surprised
penalty.

if

it

has

to

pay

the

have here
is

said

above
of

that

what

have

recorded

whoopingof

cough
may

only

an.

example
in

what

be

accomplished
disease of which that

the

case

of

any

there

is

an

infective converted

principle
into The has
a

may

be

homoeopathic
Dr

remedy.
Burnett curative had been

late shown the

nosode

Compton
what
of

to

potent
Tubercle Koch's the date what

use

put,

long

before

Tuberculinum I

appeared

on

scene.

hope
in

at

no

distant

to

show,
be

the

same

way, in

may

accomplished

homoeo-

Preface

pathic
nosodes

hands

with

the

various

of
cancer.

JOHN

HENRY

CLARKE.

Bolton

Street,

Piccadilly,
March

W., 1906.

5,

CONTENTS.

PAGE

Preface,

Chapter

I.
"

What
is a

Nosode

.17

Chapter

II.
"

Cases

Cured
with

Pertussin,
. .

.24
,

Chapter

III.
"

Conclusion.
"

Some

Lessons

from

the

Cases,
.

61

Index

73

What

is

Nosode?

Leaving
of

on

one

side

the failure
rise

question
of

the

success

or

this

method,
number Serum
Tuberculin

it has of

given

to

large
the the

imitations,
of

including diphtheria,
of

treatment

treatment

Koch,
tetanus,

the
and

Tetanin

treatment

of

the All

Doyen
this

treatment

of be

cancer.

should

very

flattering
method it is
"

to

homoeopaths.

The

is

peculiarly
like

homoeopathic
like.
It is also tation imi"

treating

by
of

the

sincerest

form

flattery

"

homoeopathy
century
in

having
of its

been modern

half

ahead

imitators remedies.

using

disease-viruses has

as

Homoeopathy
virus, Lyssin
or

its

hydrophobic

Hydro-

What

is

Nosode

phobin

it

has

its

virus

of

losis, tubercu-

Tuberculin,
named

or,

as

Dr he
its

Burnett

the Bacillinum

preparation
;

chieflycancer-

used,

it has

viruses,

Scirrhinum,

Carcinosin,
and Mor-

Epitheliomin,
others
;

Sarcomatin,
virus
its

its and

of virus

measles,
of

billin,

ing-cough, whoop-

Pertussin.

Moreover,
a

homoeopathy
which derived includes
from

has

general
these

term

all

remedies

disease-viruses,
It is derived

the
from

term

"Nosode." Greek
word

the

v6o-o$y which

means

"disease."
It is

well

that

the with

public
this

should

become because

familiar
it

term, of

means

source

help

20

What

is

Nosode?

in

many

forms free

of

disease,
from with the the
and

acute

and

chronic,

grave
use

dangers
of
"

associated

serums,"

"vaccins,"
of

the and

crude others.

preparations
The
nosodes

Koch of

pathy homoeo-

are

prepared just
like

by

graduated
the virulent
and

attenuation,

poisons
mineral
"

"

vegetable,
which

animal,
a

constitute

large

part
Medica.
curative

of

the The

homoeopathic knowledge
of

Materia
of

the

powers also

the

nosodes the this his knows

for safe

should
fact

draw

attention

to

that

the

homoeopath advantage

has

very

great

over

orthodox how

brother,
to

that remedies

he

prepare

What

is

Nosode?

21

use

in
and

all

ages disease

and

conditions fear That

of

of

life

without

of

injuring
say, he

his
knows

patients.
the
power

is

to

tesimal infini-

attenuations The radium the revelations and its in

of

substances. with

connection

emanation of fact have all

are

ing open-

eyes
to

intelligent lay
infinitesimal

persons
amounts

the

that

may

enormous

power and in

over

the orthodox

human

body
section have

time

the

of

the

medical

profession
also.
the such
But

may

its

eyes

opened
of into

unhappily
profession
inveterate

this has

section

medical

fallen of

an

habit because of the

sneering
it

at

homoeopathy
the power

nises recog-

infinitesimal*

What

is

Nosode

that
for it

it will

take
in

much the

longer

time
of

to

take than

significance
for

the demic

truth
and

it will

the

unaca-

presumably

unprejudiced

public.
At in any
rate,

homoeopaths
of

have

their

knowledge
an

the

tesimals infini-

enormous

advantage
rivals. fault make reward of
L

over

their

orthodox

It

will their

be

an

unpardonable
if

on

part
of

they

do

not

the
of

most

it, and
for

reap

the credit

their

success

the school.

Hahnemann
with
all

and

his

urge

my

power

on

homoeopathic
to

titioners prac-

everywhere
rich and lode
of the

work

this

homoeopathic
results,
that

mine,
others

publish

their

What

is
a

Nosode

know may

what

is

being

.done.

Nosode

homoeopathy

is

the

most

fruitful

of

recent

developments
science and

of

this

beautiful

art

of

infinite

possibilities.

CHAPTER

II.

CASES

CURED

WITH

PERTUSSIN.

^^HOOPING-COUGH,
everyone

as

knows,

is

an

fectious in-

disease.

It

is

characterised

at

the

outset

by
be

catarrhal

symptoms

which

cannot

distinguished
in

from

an

ordinary
is

cold

the

head.

The

catarrh

followed
soon

by rapidly
the

cough,
ing becom-

at

first

irritating,

but

spasmodic.
is

When

disease

fully

developed
attended

the

fits

of

ing cough-

are

with

symptoms

26

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

it. and

As

my
a

practice general

is

consulting
I do of and is be
not

not

one,

have

many
cases

opportunities
of

ing treat-

this the
But

disease,

my
not

experience
very
to

with

remedy
it will

extensive. be I

found

sufficiently striking.
may
state

here
in

that

I have

used

the "the

remedy

one

preparation

only

thirtieth

centesimal

potency.

Case

I.

Aof

maiden

lady,, verging
gouty

on

60,

very

history,

ness gover-

by
duties

profession,
the

continued

her

throughout
her attack

summer

1905 going under-

whilst

pupils
of

were

an

whooping-cough.

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

27

She

herself

contracted

violent the pathic allo-

spasmodic

cough,
family
doctor

which,

pronounced

.to

be

"not

whooping-cough."
to

The house
Miss X.

family
in H.

moved

their
and

country
there
of Dr

Hertfordshire,
came

under
due of

the

care

After mother

consultation the

with
Dr X.

the

children,
the

concurred,
11

and

found

cough

not

whooping-cough." lady
term
was

However,
to

the the end

too

ill

leave

when

of

her
after

service
time

came

to

an

but well

she be

was

thought
the

enough
but the
In

to

sent

to

seaside,
as

cough
London who

tinued con-

before.

she

saw

homoeopath,

thought

28

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin,

there

couldn't
in

be all

any that

whoopingtime.
But
pression, im-

cough
the

it after he and

remedies

gave when
I

made

no

returned

to

town

after

the

holidays
the
case.

she That

asked

my
on

opinion

on

was

September
coughed
months.
broken

28, after
herself

she

had

wellfor

nigh
three

to

pieces

She down.

looked Had

pletely com-

violent till she fits

in

fits

of

coughing
;

coughed
but

retched
of sob.

did

not

whoop,

the

coughing
I

sometimes

ended

unhesitatingly
to

pronounced
of

the

case

be

one

whoopingto

cough,
my

and

set

about

verify

diagnosis
The

by
had

the

treatment.

patient

had

allopathic

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

29

cough cough
needed

remedies, remedies,

and she

homoeopathic
evidently
now

something
prescription
iv.
in

fresh. Pertussin
"

My
30,

was

gl.

powder
one

of

Sacch. hours.

lact.

Mitte Oct.
what

xxiv.,

every

3. there

"

Cough
was

nearly
it
was

gone

left of
trouble.
A

quite patient
to

easy
was

and

no

The

transformed.

thing
since

be

noted Pertussin

was

that she had which this

getting copious
great

had

very gave

expectoration,
relief. Before

she

could

hardly

get

anything
The

up

at

all.
went

improvement
the
of
same

on

steadily
as
an

under

remedy, Lady

and

old

patron

hers,

wished
,

30

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

her
for had

to

take

charge
said

of

her

children

time,

children
I

having
allowed

all her

whooping-cough,
do
so.

to

All

went

well when
broke

till

the

end

of

the
of

month,
influenza
and claimed

an

epidemic
in

out

the
for

house,
one

my

patient
cleared

of

its victims.
under

This

up 30
;

quickly
but

Influenzinum
as

the wake that

influenza,
up may

its of

evil

habit old

is

to

the
be

germs

any

malady

lurking
which

about,
started

aggravated again
with

the

cough,

some

violence,
a

each

cough

ending

in

sob,

or

gasp, Pertuss.
"

or

sigh.
30,

Nov.

1 2.

every

four

hours.

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

31

Nov.

23.

"

Expectoration
very

very

copious.
but awake

Is

well

in

herself,
her the

has

fearful

cough,
to

keeping
hours
in

for

one

two

night.
The the
nosode of I

conditions

being longer
had

different,

no

complete

control
Here of

the

case.

may in

remark

that excludes

the

use

nosodes

no

way

the

use

of

other

homoeopathic
form
a

remedies. addition

Nosodes

splendid
;

to

our

armamentarium know with how other

but

if

we

don't them

to

supplement
we
are

remedies,
off
as

just
know remedies

as

badly
how
to

if

we

didn't

supplement
use

other

by

the

of

nosodes.

32

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

now

dropped
Corallium

the rubrum

nosode

and

ordered four

30,

every this

hours.

The

indication "violent

for

remedy

was

"

spasmodic

cough
Moreover,
in

with

copious
it
was
a

expectoration."
nervous

cough
That
was

nervous

patient.

Nov.
Dec.

23.

7.

The
"

cough
beginning
fits
of

altered the cine. medi-

in

two

days
No

after

more

coughing.
the

little

short

cough

during
off.

day.

Expectoration
Dec. 13.
"

wearing Cough

keeps

under.
From

Very,
this trouble.

little
time

expectoration.
on

the

cough

gave

no

;34

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

travelling, though
wished Miss P.
to

they
their

very

much

continue been but her the several

it

journey.

had

once

successfully
doctors times "take."
sick

vaccinated,
vaccinate

tried before

to

they
was

could

get
to

to

She

subject
she used She colds

bad

headaches,
the

which

to

get

at

monthly
to

period. heavy
and first when

was

also head. she she

subject
Feet

in

the

cold

dry. lying
once

When down she for

is

goes

to

bed,

on

coughs,
over

and she

can

get
time.

this

sleeps
is

well and

The

cough
motion. paths allo-

dry,
I

brought
the

on

by
were

may for

say

family
part,
a

the of

most

but

they
whom

had

heard

me

from

nurse

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

35

they
anchor

met

in in

Paris.

Their

one

sheetwas

these

conditions
in

Nepenthe,
doses. that

given
This
was

one

or

two

drop

the

only
the

thing
patient

sufficed till she

to

keep
get

quiet
There

could

sleep.
very

was

nothing
this and

acteristic charI

in

cough
my
3,

that
first

could

then

discover,
was,

tion prescripv.,

Stannum

gr.

every

two

hours.
Oct. No
"

4.

change.

Nepenthe

had Now into

to

be
I

used. had

to

go
new

more

deeply
I of

the

case.

One
"

symptom
in

elicited the told mouth

was

pricking lying
first
saw

the

roof I

on

down." the

was

when

patient,

36

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

that

she

had But
I

"

never

had
I

whoopingto
cross-

cough."
examine,
the first

when that of

came

found

when this

she

had

attack

cough,
of whether

ten

years
or

before,
not

the

question

it

was

whooping-cough
and all the
pros and it

was

canvassed,

cons

having
decided

been
in

duly
the had
if

considered,

was

negative.

"

She

must

have

whooping-cough
it

many

times,

was,"
At any

was

the
I

mother's

remark.
it

rate,

thought
make
a

was

near

enough
had
"

to

"like,"
"

as

she

ling strangif she I

fits would

with

the

cough,
her

as

never

get
Pertuss.

breath.

prescribed
gvi.
; 511.

30,

gl.

x.

aq.

every

two

hours.

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

37

Oct.

5.
;

"

Cough strangling
Less

better fits

not

so

constant

in in

bed

not

so

bad.

pricking
little

roof

of but

mouth. much

Very
nasal

expectoration,
which

discharge,

is thick.

Repeat.
The that the trouble
On Oct. from

patient
parents
me

was

so

much

better

thought
again.

they

need

not

received

polite

note

Col.
"

P.,

the

patient's
has has
Mrs proved im-

father

My
much

daughter
since

so

she that

taken
P.

the

second

remedy,
to

has

decided
I

leave

on

Tuesday."
whatever that

have

no

doubt

this
in

was

case

of

whooping-cough
and that this

the

first

instance,

38

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

delicate

girl
to

had

never

had

the

strength
and had
"

get

completely
had the
"

over

it,

neyer

similli-

mum

"

ie.y the
to

exact

homoeopathic
until she

remedy
my

"

help

her

got

Pertussin.

My
with
I

next

case

has

no

connection

whooping-cough
it
to

infection,
that
in

but of

give

show

the
all

Law

Similars

is

applicable
of nosodes

respects
to

to

the
of

use

as

it is

the

use

other
nosode

homoeopathic
of
a

remedies. will
of

The

disease all
it

not

cure,

or

even

help,
which other

cases

the

disease

from the of

is

derived

but,
cases

on

hand,

it will

cure

great

variety

of

com-

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

39

plaints
whatever

which with that of

have the

no

connection

original diseases,
in
some

except
marked the

similarity

characteristics.

Given

this,
does

homoeopathic
trouble himself his
Law

physician
about Law. which
It

not

origin
is

"

he

trusts

to

the the

possession

of

gives

homoeopathist
over

an

enormous

tage advan-

his

old-school

fellows,
the the brains the
is Law

only
to

he

must

not

expect
It needs and

work

of

itself. faculties

use

of

observing

in

the school

application.

All

that needs

oldthe
and

practitioner
of
is

teaching
as

his

blind

authority,
master to

this

an

easier

obey,
a

the

old-school

doctor

has

big

40

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

advantage
do
not

here. the

But

his fruit

patients
of it
is

reap and

this

advantage,
the interest that also
make Law

therefore
the

to

of their their

patient-world
advisers

to

see

medical medical

(who
should the
of

are

servants)
masters

themselves

of
Law

of

Cure,
which the

which
is

is

the

Similars,
Here
is

Homoeopathy.

case

"

Case

III.

young

unmarried

lady
had
a

of

nervous

temperament

very

bad she

cold,
could

which

left

cough
of.
It her

that

not

get
and

rid made

was

dry,
sick

irritating,
at

feel

times.

42

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

Case

IV.

On from

Oct.

24

received

letter

lady
that and

in

the her

country,
two

Mrs

C,

saying aged
had
9,

boys,

John,
6,
had been had since She

William, colds,
and

aged
had

bad

coughing
been with

for

fortnight.
who

They
had

children

developed
described she should
if it

whooping-cough.
the

cough,
them

and

asked
for in

if

bring

up

me

to

see

was

whooping-cough
her
I

their
it

case.

I told

had

no

doubt she need

was

whooping-cough,
bring
William,
them. the

and

not

younger

of

the

boys,

was

the

most

seriously

affected/

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

43

On On

Sept.

18,
29

1905,

he
in

had

cold. with which

Sept.

he

was

contact

children

who be

had

coughs

proved
About

to

whooping-cough.
later time his his

ten

days
at

cough
mother
it

began,
wrote

and

the

to

me

(October
and

24)
made

was

very

troublesome,

him

sick. ft
Pertussin

30,

glob.

x.

aq.
two

gvi.
hours.

dessertspoonful

every

October he has and

29.

The
"

report
to*

is

that

now

begun
is sometimes

"whoop"
a

well,
sick.

little

Repeat.
November
"

3.

The

"

cough

44

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

sounds

looser

he sick.

whoops,
Is

and

is in

often other

slightly ways."

well

Repeat.
November
is his less sick
"

9.

He

"

coughs
;

less

still

whoops

grinds

teeth

less."

Repeat.
November
14.

"Still
"

improv-

ing.

Repeat,
November

night
24.
"

and

morning

only.
;

"Seldom

coughs
sick
;

whoops
very

less
iiT

is

no

longer
eats

is

well

himself;

heartily."

Repeat.
December 5.
were

On
"

this

date but

new

symptoms

reported, passing

the

cough

was

steadily

away.

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

45

This

is

the

account

received little. Stools

"Cough
Seems
to

better;
have sometimes offensive. times.
but

whoops
indigestion.
three
Pain

yellow
loose

day,
men abdo-

and

in

at

Appetite
seem

good. poorly.
"

Irritable,
A
new

doesn't situation

having
had had the attack
to

veloped, debe here

the reconsidered.

treatment

Pertussin broken

completely
had, indeed,

"

practically
A

cured

the

whooping-cough.
now

remedy
should

was

required
symptoms
and

which of the

meet

the

internal
if

rangement, de-

also,
as

possible,
The

the

cough
that

symptoms
I

well. for this

remedy

selected

was

46

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

Podophyllum
over a

30,

three

doses

to

go

.week.
28.
"

December is
"

The

report

ceived re-

"

Coughs
day.
and
seems

only
He

once

or

twice

in

the

does

not

whoop

at

all,

very

well."

In

the

next

case,

the advanced its

remedy
stage
action
it

got
of

to

work

in

less and

the

disease,
prompt
attack.

was

more

in

fact,

aborted

the

Case

V.

John caught
on

C,

aged

9,

like

his

brother,
and

cold,
29

Sept.
came

18,
in

1905,
contact

Sept.

with

whooping-cough

infection,

and

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

47

about

the

middle

of

October

veloped de-

cough.
"

October

24.

Has

"

hard,

throaty
ft
3ii.

cough."
30,

Pertussin

gl.

x.

aq.

gvi.

every

two

hours.
"

October doesn't

29.

Still

"

coughs,

but

whoop

yet."

Repeat.
November all hasn't
"

3.

"

Hardly
once

coughs
;
seems

at

whooped

very

well."

Repeat.
November
"

14.

Seldom

"

coughs

seems

well."

Repeat,
December is

night
3.
"

and
"

morning Cough

only.
better
;

keeping

better."

48

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

Repeat,
December

at

longer
28.
"

intervals.
"

Is in

very

well.

Coughs
morning,
when
In

little,
but he

once

the
did

early
that

generally

well." this the the

it

case

remedy
disease,

rapidly
without

wiped allowing

out

to

develop
the

enough
or

to

inconvenience his
I

patient
way.
case

affect

health

in

any

Later in which
but

on

shall

give

another

the

same

thing
now

happened
on

I of

must

pass of

to

the

case

the

mother

these

two

boys.

Case

VI.

Mrs

C,

dark,

rather
in

small,
the

with

phthisical

history

family,

50

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

ear

is

so

sore

dare

not

wash

it

properly.
and

My

head
is

often

aches,
trouble.
to

everything
often
causes

great
urine

Cough

the

pass

involuntarily"
The
in

remedy
case
"

had it had

done

something
the the

this the

eased

pain cough

in

chest caused

which but

previously
a more

the

case

was

complicated
and

one

than
did

the

others,

the
it

remedy
in its is

not

correspond
The
Law of

to

entirety.
inexorable

Similars

"

as

soon

as

remedy
its

has

changed
it

case

out

of

"similitude,"
for

will
and

do
if

no

more

the

patient
similitude the

there

is

no

betwreen

remedy

and

case,

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

51

remedy
in

will

do

nothing.
when
a

Happily, remedy

homoeopathy,
missed
do its

has

aim,

it is There

not

likely
is
no

to

any of

harm. material

residuum the

drug
of.

for

system
Pertussin

to

get

rid

having
of
for

done this what

all

that

it

was

capable
question
The
now

patient,
to

the

was,

give
is

next.

rule the
to

in

homoeopathy
to

to

find

in

remedy

be
to

selected the
most

something

correspond peculiar

striking
symptoms
be treated.

and

symptom
in

or

manifested
Now

the

case

to

the the

most

some trouble-

as

well
in

as

most

peculiar
the with untary involeach

symptom

this

case

was

expulsion

of

urine

52

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

fit

of

coughing.
which
but

There have there

are

many

remedies

produced
are

this
few

symptom,
which have

only
marked

it feature

as

and

prominent
list. of
is In my

of

their

symptomthe

experience,
it is
most

remedy

which

characteristic Causticum features

was

Causticum,

and

as

corresponded
the with
case,

to

other

of

this

remedy
to

ordered,
taken
every

30th
hours.
November

potency,

be

two

"

9.-

Much

better.

"

Cough
and much I continued

not

gone,

but No with

very

slight
but

quite
less

loose.
trouble

pain,
the

bladder"
be

ordered
but

the

remedy
as

to

there

was

an

Oases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

53

epidemic patient's
in dose addition

of

influenza I

in

the

neighbourhood, Influenzinum

ordered

30,

one

at

bedtime.

November

"

14.

"

Cough
at

not

so

well

more

like

it

was

first, only

it does

not

hurt."
it make for is the often

Again
a

was

necessary

to

change.

In

the

search
it

homoeopathic
necessary and find
to

remedy
go back of

over

case

points
which When

likeness
been

in

symptoms

have first

present

formerly.
for

prescribing
my

this

patients
divided

cough,
between

choice

was

Pertussin for in

and

Apis,
the

the

indication

Apis
the

being

stinging

pains

54

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

chest,
Pertussin

caused removed

by

the but

cough.
it of
did

that,
the fact been

little

else,

and

this

symptom
remained
an

having
indication

present

for
in

Apis.
the

therefore

ordered and this There with the

Apis rapidly
was

30th
up

potency,
the trouble
I
case.

cleared

no

further

cough.
this order
case

have detail nosodes

given
in

in

some

little the

to

show used

that
in

cannot

be

lazy,
with Nosodes the

penny-in-the-slot
any
are

method,
success.

hope
an

of

great

enormous

help,
power of

and

knowledge
a

of their

and

use

saves

very

great
in

amount

labour

and

trouble

symptom-matching

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

55

but the

the

Law

of devoted and

Similars service refuses

demands of
its

most

adherents,
best results

to

give
like

its

to

anything
Nosodes
are

shod slip-

practice.
to

subject
pathic homoeo-

the

Law,

like

any and

other it
is

remedy,
for and the how

necessary

prescriber
to

to

know

when action

supplement

their

at

any

moment.

Labour-saving generalisations
are

devices much

and

of and

value

to

the

homoeopath,
;

are

eagerly
be
"

welcomed

but

it
"

must

never

forgotten
alone

that

eternal of
is

vigilance
in

is. the

price
This

cess suc-

homoeopathy. why
there
are

the

real

reason

not

more

homoeopathic

doctors.

It is

so

much

56

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

easier medicine

for

teachers denounce
than it is

of

established

to

homoeopathy
to

ex

cathedra
it is

master

it their

and

so

much

easier this

for

students

to

accept than
to

judgment

as

sufficient,
matter

investigate
that
of

the
is

for immediate

themselves,
likelihood
numbers.

there

no

great

accession I will

to

our

now

relate

the

last

of

my

cases.

Case

VII.

Master

R.,
nervous

aged boy,
behind

6,
with

very
a

delicate,

bad

family

history
lupus
and

him,

ing includin

cancer

his
under

paternal
me

grandparents,
constitutional

was

for

treatment,

58

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

suspicions,
a

and

she

had

always
for

had her

dread

of her of

whooping-cough
husband's
it. I told

boy,
had it

as

only
her
of

brother

died the

I believed

was

beginning
I did
not

whoopingshe need her have

cough,
be
at

but all

think
I

alarmed.

told

to

keep
no

the

boy

quiet.
walks,
the

He
but

was

to

fatiguing
out

he when

might
the

walk

in

forenoon

weather
]J
a

was

fine.

Pertussin

30,

gl.
every

x.

aq.

gviii. ;
hours. later

dessertspoonful
December
29.
"

four

Eleven

days
to
me

the There his had

boy

was

brought
a

again.
in

was

great
and The this

change
is

condition,

what

happened.

characteristic

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

59

"whoop" days,

appeared

after the

few

generally
He after

in

early
twice

ing. morn-

retched he and had he of had

in

the

street

the

medicine

two

days,

brought glue-like
attacks

up

great

quantity
The

toration. expecin

the that who the

street

were

so

characteristic,
of in

careful

mothers
be

families

happened
same

to

the

street

at

time

prudently
side,
to

-passed
avoid

by

on

the the

other infection The

to

carrying
children.

their

own-

whooping
;

only

lasted

day

or

two

the times.

sickness The three and

only

occurred

few

expectoration days
now

had second

ceased

before he

his

visit,

hardly

60

Cases

Cured

with

Pertussin.

coughed
chest,,
catarrh and

at

all. found

examined the

his

that

signs
up.

of

had

completely night
case

cleared

Repeat,
In

and

morning
remedy
at
once

only.
had the then

this

the

acted crisis

by
of

developing
the

disease,
The

and

"

wiping happened
was

it

out.

same

thing
the
cure

in

Case
in

IV.,

but

longer
been Case

being

effected,
in

as

it

had

longer
VII.

developing.
cure
was

In

the
in

brought
week. The school end.

about

little

over

patient
when

was

able

to

return

to

the

holidays

came

to

an

CHAPTER

III.

CONCLUSION.

SOME

LESSONS

FROM

THE

CASES.

relating
have

the

above

cases

we

not

exhausted

the

interest

they
useful

contain.

There

are

still

some

lessons

in

practice
observations.

to

be

deduced

from

the

There

are

several

in ways

which

remedies

may

be

introduced

into

the

homoeopathic
classical

Materia

Medica.

The

way

is,

of

course,

Hahnemann's

original "provings"

method

of

testings

or

on

the

62

Conclusion.

healthy.
to

This

he

soon

found

it

sible pos-

supplement, patients
A

by
under

observations the influence

made of

on

remedy.
indications which
be

remedy
will often

given
remove

on

certain

symptoms
known
to

were

not

before

part
observer this the

of

its who

symptomwatches
and

list. the

The

case

notes

effect,
to

he

may

prescribe

remedy
some

another

patient
symptoms.
these

presenting
If in

of

these

new

the

second

case

symptoms
he
of

are

relieved

or

moved, re-

is entitled

to

regard

them

as

part

the

drugs
as

symptom-list
it is

or

"pathogenesis,"
called.

cally techni-

Again,
to
a

when
it

remedy
may, in

is

given

patient

Conclusion.

63

addition other
of

to

relieving
which
and

him,
are no

excite

symptoms

part
known

his be

disease,
part
of

are

not

to

the

drug's
should

causation. be noted
and if

These and

symptoms
tested
in in

the

same

way,

"

confirmed be added
In

practice,
the

they

also

may

to

drugs
use

symptom-list.
nosodes,
in

making
may way from

of

the

physician
the
derived
same

proceed
as

exactly
remedies

with

plants
used

or

minerals.
in

The

first

nosode

pathy homoeomann Hahne-

was

so

introduced.

himself and of his its

proved
has

Psoricum,
the basis

proving
use

been

in But

homoeopathy
this has
not

ever

since.

been

64

Conclusion.

the
and

case

with

all

the

nosodes,
case

it

was

not

the

with

Pertussin.
It of is

self-evident,

that

every

case

an

infectious
of

disease

is, in

effect,

proving being

the

infective
it

principle.
follows
from of

This

evident,

that the

symptom-list
or

compiled

signs
number

symptoms
of
cases

large

of

any

infectious basis

disease which

supplies
the

solid

on

homoeopathic
its nosode.

physician
It also
be

may

prescribe
that less the the

follows

the

nosode

must

more

or

homoeopathic
disease.

to

every

case

of But

homoeopath
of

can

never

lose

sight

the

necessity

of

in-

66

Conclusion.

These

preparations
the actual

will

not

duce pro-

disease,
the them

and

they
of

will those will

not

endanger
who
test

health but
and

they
these

produce
are

symptoms,
valuable
morbid

symptoms
their whether
use

guides
condition,
disease have

to

in

any

part

of

the
of

original
this
kind

or

not.

Provings

been

mostly
on

made

by

homoeopathic
from the

physicians
time

themselves,

of

Hahnemann

downwards.

Pertussin tested
but in in

still this

remains

to

be

way,

or

"proved";
the evident
and

the

meantime,
of and

symptoms
the

whooping-cough,
diagnosis
of

history

whoop-

Conclusion.

67

ing-cough
the done these

infection for

may its In

be

taken

as

indications
in

use,

as

was

my

cases.

the

course

of

cases

everal
character be tested

symptoms
were

of

distinctive which

removed,
future
be
cases,

may if

in

and,
upon
use

confirmed,

may

looked
for

as

leading
nosode.

indications These

the

of

the

symptoms

are

"

(1)

"

Itching lying

of

the

palate

on

down

at

night."
in
or

(2)

"

Stinging
chest,
with

pain

on

the

cough."
or

(3)

"

Sickness,
at

feeling
end of

of

ness, sick-

the

cough."
at

(4)

"

Sobbing
of

or

sighing

end

cough."

68

Conclusion.

(5)

"

Strangling

sensation

with

cough
These

on

waking."
I

symptoms
of

commend

to

the

notice and

homoeopathic
ask them
to

cians, physiobserve confirms

whether
them

their

experience

or

otherwise.

further

important practice
of

point
is
to

in

homoeopathic
the
It is

observe

Relationships
not

Remedies.

often

that of

single remedy
times Somedose
of

will

cure

case

disease.

it will
"

even

single
often

the

remedy.
come
a

But time

more

there

will
must

when
and

the
another

remedy given.
to

be
is

changed
of

It

then

great

importance

Concltision.

69

know

which
will often for

remedy

to

select the

next.

It

happen
the
next

that

cation indi-

remedy
room

is doubt
is

so

clear which

that

there select.

is

no

to

to

But several

that

not

always
may

the be

case

remedies well useful

dicated. in-

apparently
It
is

equally
very

then

to

know certain

if

experience
of these the done
For

has

proved
with,
of
but

that and

agree
action

well

complement
which benefit. well
action

the

one

has

well

ceased

to

some

remedies

agree their
in

with

others

some

arrest

or

over-action,
as

or,

other dote anti-

words,
is

act

antidotes. it is

If

an

required,
list
of

valuable which

to

have

the

remedies

70

Conclusion.

have

proved
If
a

antidotal

to

the

remedy remedy

given.
is

complementary
it
is

required,
of

useful which

to

have been the work. mation infor-

list found

remedies

have follow
its

by

experience
and carry

to

remedy
Can

well,
we,

on

then,
these
of

gain
heads

any

on

from ?

the
I is

experience
think followed
and
we

my

seven

cases

may

infer

that

Pertussin

well

by

Corallium,
At

Causti-

cum,

Podophyllum.
remedies had
acted

any

rate,

these Pertussin the On

be in

well marked

after relief

given

to

patients.
the other

hand,
that

think

it

may is

inferred

Infiuenzinum
inimical
to

some

degree

the

Conclusion.

action influenza

of

Pertussin.

An back
in

attack

of

brought
symptoms
had
of been

whoopingcase

cough
these attack

one

when This with

Per-

nearly
was

cured. cured that for the

influenza
and

Influenzinum,
tussin

after

could

do

no

more

case.

With this small

these

observations,
to

place
mense im-

contribution before

an

subject
With all the

my

readers. which pathic homoeothe

I

earnestness

can

command,

I entreat

my

confreres
of the nosodes careful the

to

give
very

to

use

deepest

and

most

attention.

In

hoc

signo

vincimus.

74

Index.

Feet,

cold,

34

Hahnemann's

original
61

method

of

"Prov-

ings," Homoeopathy, by

the
18

method

of

curing

"

like

like,"

Hydrophobic
18

virus, Lyssin

or

Hydrophobin,

Hydrophobin,

hydrophobic

virus,

18

Influenzinum,
Internal

30,

53,

70

derangement,
for, 46

Podophyllum

remedy

"

Law
of

of

Similars

"

applicable

to

the

use

nosodes,

38

Measles, Morbillin,

virus measles

of,

19

virus,

19

Nepenthe 35

as

sedative

for

persistent

cough,

"Nosode,"
"

derivation
a

of

the

term,
term,
19

19

homoeopathic

Index.

75

Nosodes

of

homoeopathy,
20

their

preparation,

safety
"

and

curative other

powers

of,

20

do
"

not

exclude

remedies,

31

Pasteur

treatment, 25,
virus
cases
"

17

Pertussin, Pertussin,

29, of

36,

41,

43,

47,

58
19

whooping-cough, with, mouth,

how

cured roof of of

24-60
"

"

Pricking

in

35

"Provings"
Psoricum

nosodes, by

made,

65 63

proved

Hahnemann,

Relationships

of

remedies,

importance

of,

68,

70

Serum
"

treatment
"

of
"

diphtheria,

18 ated associ-

Serums

and

vaccins,"
use

dangers
20

with

the

of,
feature

Sickness, cough, Stannum, Stinging

leading
indicates 35

of

whooping41, 43

Pertussin,

sensation

in

the

chest,

49

Apis

for, S3

Symptom-list
prescribing

of

disease

gives
64

basis

for

the

nosode,

y6

Index.

Symptom-matching, Symptoms
of

54

whooping-cough,

24,

67

Tetanin

treatment

of

tetanus,

18

Tubercle,
Tuberculin

Dr

J.
treatment

C.

Burnett's
of

nosode

of,

13

Koch,

18 tuberculosis

Tuberculin,
virus, Tuberculosis,
19

or

Bacillinum,

virus

of,

19

Urine,

involuntary coughing fits,

expulsion
Causticum
a

of,

due

to

remedy,

52

"

Vaccin,"

Pasteur

method

of,

17

Wheezing

in

case

of

whooping-cough, of,
1

57

Whooping-cough,

virus

characteristics
" "

of,
cured

24

cases
" "

of,

with
60

tussin, per-

24,

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