Whooping-Cough Cured With Pertussin Its Homoeopathic Nosode
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WHOOPING-COUGH
CURHD WITH
PERTUSSIN
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WHOOPING-COUGHCURED WITH
PERTUSSIN,ITS
HOMCEOPATHIC NOSODE,
BY JOHN HENRY CLARKE, M.D.,AUTHOR OF
41 a dictionary of practical materia medic a,homoeopathy explained/' etc.
There is truth in the Hahnemann method of curing like by like.Roux, of the Pasteur Institute.
LONDON, ENGLAND :
JAMES EPPS CO., LIMITED,48 Threadnkedle Street and 60 Jermyn Street.
1906.
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k1 i PREFACE.
^ I have thought it desirable to puton record the experience described
** in this brochure for several reasons.In the first place, it is well thatmerit should be ascribed where
' merit is due that the discovererof the method of treating cases ofdisease with a remedy derived fromthe infectious principle of the
i disease itself, should . have the* credit of his discovery. This dis-overy
was made by Hahnemann
150250
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and his contemporary disciples,Pasteur, Koch, Behring and Roux,as the last named has had thecandour to admit, have only-trodden in Hahnemann's foot-teps.
There is truth in the
Hahnemann method of curing likeby like, are the words of Dr Roux.Further, it should be known thatin imitating Hahnemann, the laterinvestigators have not improvedon Hahnemann's methods. Theyhave quite unnecessarily, introducedvivisectional experiments, and theyhave adopted a dosage, and amethod of subcutaneous injection,which are fraught with no littledanger. This danger is admittedly
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so great, that in the case of DrKoch's treatment of tuberculosisthe method has been abandoned
by all but a very few practitioners.The homoeopathic preparations aremade in such a way that no crueltyto animals is involved, and nodanger to patients is run. Disease-viruses are treated in the same wayas serpent venoms, and the homoeo-athic
preparations of both retainall the therapeutic properties of theoriginal sources without any oftheir dangers.
This is the first of my reasonsfor putting my experience withthe nosode of whooping-coughinto print
in order to show that
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to homoeopathy and its founder isdue the credit of the discovery thatdisease-viruses, like other poisons,may with safety be converted intoremedies ; and that the late in-
cursion of old-school medicine into
the fields of seropathy and vaccina-ionsis simply whether wittingly
or not an invasion of the homoeo-athic
domain.
My second reason is, thathomoeopaths themselves have beenall too slow to take advantageof the enormous power which this
department of their art puts intotheir hands. The single examplewhich I here present will be
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sufficient for the thoughtful reader.Given one, all the rest may be
known- I therefore urge on myhomoeopathic confreres to cultivateassiduously this new field, and notleave it to the so-called orthodox
practitioners to exploit in theirown barbarous fashion ; or, still
worse, to adopt their methodsof barbarism in place of the scien-ific
and enlightened method ofHahnemann.
Yet another purpose may beserved by this book. It isnecessary that the public should bemade acquainted with the powerand possibilities of homoeopathic
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therapeutics. Now, whooping-cough is a malady which is knownto everybody, and of which thetreatment can be intelligentlyobserved by any mater-familias.It is a disease which is generallyabandoned by old-school doctorsas beyond the reach of remediesother than sedatives to calm the
violence of the attacks of coughing.Whatever time of the year the
attack commences, it is bound to
last till the following May, is atradition which is not without someauthoritative backing. This bookmay therefore serve in a certain
degree as a popular educator. Asa rule, the general public care little
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or nothing about systems of treat-ent; but they do care about
getting cured as expeditiously aspossible. But, in order to securethe latter, the public will have togive some thought to the former.It is the public who are interestedin having successful treatment,much more than it is the professionwho are interested in administeringit. The party in power in medical-circles to-day is an obscurantistparty, whose interest it is to keepstudents and public in the dark asto possible therapeutic reforms. Igive here an instance of successfultreatment by a method which isscouted in the orthodox schools
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except so far as it is presentedunder another name, in the crude
methods of serum-injections andvaccinations. If the public wish tobe treated in a civilised and scientific
manner they must bestir themselvesto understand something aboutmethods of treatment, and com-ine
to demand that their medical
men shall learn the method which
answers best. For the publicshould realise that it is they whoare the masters of the situation,
and that the medical professionare their servants. But servants of
all classes need looking after ; andif the public is neglectful in thisparticular, the public must not be
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surprised if it has to pay thepenalty.
*I have said above that what I
have here recorded of whooping-cough is only an. example of whatmay be accomplished in the caseof any disease of which there is aninfective principle that may beconverted into a homoeopathicremedy. The late Dr ComptonBurnett has shown to what potentcurative use the nosode of Tubercle
had been put, long before Koch'sTuberculinum appeared on thescene. I hope at no distant dateto show, in the same way, what
may be accomplished in homoeo-
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pathic hands with the various
nosodes of cancer.
JOHN HENRY CLARKE.
8 Bolton Street,
Piccadilly, W.,
March 5, 1906.
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CONTENTS.
PAGE
Preface, 5
Chapter I.
What is a Nosode ? .17
Chapter II.
Cases Cured with
Pertussin,. . ,
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Chapter III.
Conclusion.
Some
Lessons from the Cases,.
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Index 73
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1 8 What is a Nosode?
Leaving on one side the questionof the success or failure of this
method, it has given rise to a largenumber of imitations, including theSerum treatment of diphtheria, theTuberculin treatment of Koch,the Tetanin treatment of tetanus,and the Doyen treatment ofcancer. All this should be veryflattering to homoeopaths. Themethod is peculiarly homoeopathic
it is treating like by like. It is also
the sincerest form of flattery
imi-ation
homoeopathy having beenhalf a century ahead of its modernimitators in using disease-viruses asremedies. Homoeopathy has itshydrophobic virus, Lyssin or Hydro-
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phobin ; it has its virus of tubercu-osis,Tuberculin, or, as Dr Burnett
named the preparation he chiefly-used, Bacillinum ; it has its cancer-viruses, Scirrhinum, Carcinosin,Epitheliomin, Sarcomatin, andothers ; its virus of measles, Mor-billin, and its virus of whoop-ng-cough,
Pertussin. Moreover,homoeopathy has a general termwhich includes all these remediesderived from disease-viruses, theterm Nosode. It is derived from
the Greek word v6o-o y which meansdisease.
It is well that the public shouldbecome familiar with this
term,because it means a source of help
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in many forms of disease, acuteand chronic, free from the gravedangers associated with the useof serums, vaccins, and thecrude preparations of Koch andothers. The nosodes of homoeo-athy
are prepared by graduatedattenuation, just like the virulentpoisons vegetable, animal, andmineral
which constitute a largepart of the homoeopathic MateriaMedica. The knowledge of thecurative powers of the nosodes
should also draw attention to thefact that the homoeopath has thisvery great advantage over hisorthodox brother, that he knowshow to prepare remedies for safe
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use in all ages and conditions of
life and disease without fear of
injuring his patients. That is tosay, he knows the power of infini-esimal
attenuations of substances.
The revelations in connection with
radium and its emanation are open-ngthe eyes of all intelligent lay
persons to the fact that infinitesimal
amounts may have enormous powerover the human body ; and in timethe orthodox section of the medical
profession may have its eyes openedalso. But unhappily this section ofthe medical profession has fallen intosuch an inveterate habit of sneeringat homoeopathy because it recog-ises
the power of the infinitesimal*
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that it will take a much longer timefor it to take in the significance ofthe truth than it will for the unaca-demic and presumably unprejudicedpublic.
At any rate, homoeopaths havein their knowledge of the infini-esimals
an enormous advantageover their orthodox rivals. It will
be an unpardonable fault on theirpart if they do not make the mostof it, and reap the reward of their
success for the credit of Hahnemann
and his school. L urge with all
my power on homoeopathic prac-itionerseverywhere to work this
rich lode of the homoeopathic mine,and publish their results, that others
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may know what is being .done.
Nosode homoeopathy is the most
fruitful of recent developments of
this beautiful science and art of
infinite possibilities.
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CHAPTER II.
CASES CURED WITH PERTUSSIN.
^^HOOPING-COUGH, aseveryone knows, is an in-ectious
disease. It is characterised
at the outset by catarrhal symptoms
which cannot be distinguished from
an ordinary cold in the head. The
catarrh is soon followed by a cough,
at first irritating, but rapidly becom-ng
spasmodic. When the disease
is fully developed the fits of cough-ng
are attended with symptoms
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it. As my practice is a consultingand not a general one, I do nothave many opportunities of treat-ng
cases of this disease, and myexperience with the remedy is notvery extensive. But it will be found
to be sufficiently striking.I may state here that I have used
the remedy in one preparation onlythe thirtieth centesimal potency.
Case I.
A- maiden lady,, verging on 60,of very gouty history, a gover-ess
by profession, continued herduties throughout the summer 1905whilst her pupils were under-oing
an attack of whooping-cough.
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She herself contracted a violent
spasmodic cough, which, the allo-athicfamily doctor pronounced
.to be not whooping-cough.The family moved to their countryhouse in Hertfordshire, and thereMiss H. came under the care of Dr
X. After due consultation with
the mother of the children, Dr X.
concurred, and found the cough11 not whooping-cough. However,the lady was too ill to leave whenthe term of her service came to an
end ; but after a time she wasthought well enough to be sent tothe seaside, but the cough con-inued
as before. In London she
saw a homoeopath, who thought
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there couldn't be any whooping-cough in it after all that time. Butthe remedies he gave made no im-ression,
and when I returned totown after the holidays she askedmy opinion on the case. That wason September 28, after she had well-nigh coughed herself to pieces forthree months. She looked com-letely
broken down. Had violent
fits of coughing ; coughed till sheretched ; did not whoop, but the fitsof coughing sometimes ended in asob. I unhesitatingly pronouncedthe case to be one of whooping-cough, and set about to verify
my diagnosis by the treatment.The patient had had allopathic
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cough remedies, and homoeopathiccough remedies, she evidently nowneeded something fresh.
My prescription was Pertussin30, gl. iv. in powder of Sacch. lact.Mitte xxiv., one every 4 hours.
Oct. 3. Cough nearly gone :what there was left of it was quiteeasy and no trouble. The patientwas transformed. A thing to benoted was that since gettingPertussin she had had very copiousexpectoration, which gave greatrelief. Before this she could hardlyget anything up at all.
The improvement went on steadilyunder the
same remedy, and as an oldpatron of hers, Lady , wished
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her to take charge of her childrenfor a time, said children having allhad whooping-cough, I allowed herto do so.
All went well till the end of the
month, when an epidemic ofinfluenza broke out in the house,and claimed my patient for one ofits victims. This cleared up quicklyunder Influenzinum 30 ; but theinfluenza, as its evil habit is to wake
up the germs of any old malady thatmay be lurking about, aggravatedthe cough, which started again withsome violence, each cough endingin a sob, or gasp, or sigh.
Nov. 1 2. Pertuss. 30, every fourhours.
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Nov. 23. Expectoration verycopious. Is very well in herself,but has a fearful cough, keeping herawake for one to two hours in the
night.The conditions being different,
the nosode no longer had completecontrol of the case.
Here I may remark that the useof nosodes in no way excludes the
use of other homoeopathic remedies.Nosodes form a splendid additionto our armamentarium ; but if we
don't know how to supplementthem with other remedies, we arejust as badly off as if we didn'tknow how to supplement otherremedies by the use of nosodes.
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I now dropped the nosode andordered Corallium rubrum 30, everyfour hours. The indication for this
remedy was violent spasmodiccough with copious expectoration.Moreover, it was a nervous coughin a nervous patient. That wasNov. 23.
Dec. 7. The cough altered in
two days after beginning the medi-ine.No more fits of coughing.
A little short cough during the day.Expectoration wearing off.
Dec. 13. Cough keeps under.Very, little expectoration. Fromthis time on the cough
gave notrouble.
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travelling, though they very muchwished to continue their journey.Miss P. had been once successfullyvaccinated, but the doctors tried tovaccinate her several times before
they could get it to take. Shewas subject to bad sick headaches,which she used to get at the monthlyperiod. She was also subject toheavy colds in the head. Feet coldand dry. When she goes to bed, onfirst lying down she coughs, andwhen once she can get over this she
sleeps well for a time. The coughis dry, and is brought on by motion.
I may say the family were allo-athsfor the most part, but they
had heard of me from a nurse whom
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they met in Paris. Their one sheet-anchor in these conditions was
Nepenthe, given in one or two dropdoses. This was the only thingthat sufficed to keep the patientquiet till she could get sleep.
There was nothing very char-cteristicin this cough that I could
then discover, and my first prescrip-ionwas, Stannum 3, gr. v., every
two hours.
Oct. 4. No change. Nepenthehad to be used.
Now I had to go more deeplyinto the case. One new symptom Ielicited was pricking in the roof ofthe mouth on lying down. I wastold when I first saw the patient,
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that she had never had whooping-cough. But when I came to cross-examine, I found that when she hadthe first attack of this cough, tenyears before, the question of whetheror not it was whooping-cough wascanvassed, and all the pros and conshaving been duly considered, it wasdecided in the negative. Shemust have had whooping-coughmany times, if it was, was themother's remark. At any rate, I
thought it was near enough tomake a like, as she had strang-ing
fits with the cough, as if shewould never get her breath. I
prescribed Pertuss. 30, gl. x. ; aq.gvi. ; 511. every two hours.
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Oct. 5. Cough better ; not soconstant ; strangling fits in bed notso bad. Less pricking in roof ofmouth. Very little expectoration, butmuch nasal discharge, which is thick.
Repeat.The patient was so much better
that the parents thought they neednot trouble me again.
On Oct. 8 I received a politenote from Col. P., the patient'sfather : My daughter has im-roved
so much since she has taken
the second remedy, that Mrs P. hasdecided to leave on Tuesday.
I have no doubt whatever that
this was a case of whooping-coughin the first instance, and that this
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delicate girl had never had thestrength to get completely over it,and had neyer had the similli-
mum ie.y the exact homoeopathic
remedy to help her until she gotmy Pertussin.
My next case has no connectionwith whooping-cough infection, butI give it to show that the Law ofSimilars is applicable in all respectsto the use of nosodes as it is to the
use of other homoeopathic remedies.The nosode of a disease will not
cure, or even help, all cases of thedisease from which it is derived ;but, on the other hand, it will curecases of a great variety of com-
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plaints which have no connectionwhatever with the original diseases,except that of similarity in somemarked characteristics. Given this,the homoeopathic physician doesnot trouble himself about origin he trusts to his Law. It is the
possession of Law which gives thehomoeopathist an enormous advan-age
over his old-school fellows,only he must not expect the Lawto work of itself. It needs the useof observing faculties and brains inthe application. All that the old-school practitioner needs is theteaching of his blind authority, andas this is an easier master to obey,the old-school doctor has a big
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advantage here. But his patientsdo not reap the fruit of this
advantage, and therefore it is tothe interest of the patient-worldto see that their medical advisers
(who are also their medical servants)should make themselves masters of
the Law of Cure, which is the Lawof Similars, which is Homoeopathy.
Here is the case :
Case III.
A young unmarried lady ofnervous temperament had a verybad cold, which left a cough thatshe could not get rid of. It was
dry, irritating, and made her feelsick at times.
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Case IV.
On Oct. 24 I received a letter
from a lady in the country, Mrs C,saying that her two boys, John,aged 9, and William, aged 6, hadhad bad colds, and had beencoughing for a fortnight. They hadbeen with children who had since
developed whooping-cough. Shedescribed the cough, and asked ifshe should bring them up for me tosee if it was whooping-cough in theircase. I told her I had no doubt itwas whooping-cough, and she neednot bring them.
William, the younger of the boys,was the most seriously affected/
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sounds looser ; he whoops, and isoften slightly sick. Is well inother ways.
Repeat.November 9. He coughs less ;
is less sick ; still whoops ; grindshis teeth less.
Repeat.November 14. Still improv-
ing.
Repeat, night and morning only.November 24. Seldom coughs ;
whoops less ; is no longer sick ; isvery well iiT himself; eats heartily.
Repeat.December 5. On this date new
symptoms were reported, but thecough was steadily passing away.
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This is the account I received :
Cough better; whoops a little.Seems to have indigestion. Stoolsyellow ; sometimes three a day,loose and offensive. Pain in abdo-en
at times. Appetite good.Irritable, but doesn't seem poorly.
A new situation having de-eloped,the treatment had to be
reconsidered. Pertussin had here
completely broken the attack had, indeed, practically cured thewhooping-cough. A remedy wasnow required which should meetthe symptoms of the internal de-angement,
and also, if possible,the cough symptoms as well. Theremedy that I selected for this was
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Podophyllum 30, three doses to goover a .week.
December 28.
The report re-eivedis
Coughs only once ortwice in the day. He does notwhoop at all, and seems very well.
In the next case, the remedy gotto work in a less advanced stage ofthe disease, and its action wasmore prompt ; in fact, it abortedthe attack.
Case V.
John C, aged 9, like his brother,caught cold, Sept. 18, 1905, andon Sept. 29 came in contactwith whooping-cough infection, and
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about the middle of October de-eloped
a cough.October 24. Has a hard,
throaty cough.ft Pertussin 30, gl. x. ; aq. gvi. ;
3ii. every two hours.
October 29. Still coughs, butdoesn't whoop yet.
Repeat.November 3. Hardly coughs
at all ; hasn't whooped once ; seemsvery well.
Repeat.November 14. Seldom coughs ;
seems well.
Repeat, night and morning only.December
3. Cough better ;is keeping better.
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Repeat, at longer intervals.December 28.
Is very well.
Coughs a little, once in the earlymorning, but he generally did thatwhen well.
In this case the remedy rapidlywiped out the disease, withoutallowing it to develop enough toinconvenience the patient or affecthis health in any way. Later on
I shall give another case in whichthe same thing happened ; but Imust now pass on to the case of
the mother of these two boys.
Case VI.
Mrs C, dark, rather small, witha phthisical history in the family,
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ear is so sore I dare not wash it
properly. My head often aches,and everything is a great trouble.Cough often causes the urine to passinvoluntarily
The remedy had done somethingin this case it had eased the painin the chest which the coughpreviously caused ; but the case wasa more complicated one than theothers, and the remedy did notcorrespond to it in its entirety.The Law of Similars is inexorable
as soon as a remedy has changeda case out of its similitude, itwill do no more for the patient ;and if there is no similitude
betwreen remedy and case, the
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fit of coughing. There are manyremedies which have produced thissymptom, but there are only a fewwhich have it as a marked and
prominent feature of their symptom-list. In my experience, the remedyof which it is most characteristic
is Causticum, and as Causticumcorresponded to other features ofthe case, this remedy was ordered,with 30th potency, to be taken everytwo hours.
November 9.- Much better.
Cough not gone, but very slightand quite loose. No pain, butmuch less trouble with the bladder
I ordered the remedy to becontinued ; but as there was an
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chest, caused by the cough.Pertussin removed that, but it didlittle else, and the fact of this
symptom having been presentremained an indication for Apis. Itherefore ordered Apis in the 30thpotency, and this rapidly cleared upthe case. There was no further
trouble with the cough.I have given this case in some
little detail in order to show that
the nosodes cannot be used in a
lazy, penny-in-the-slot method,with any hope of great success.Nosodes are an enormous help, andthe knowledge of their power and usesaves a very great amount
of labour
and trouble in symptom-matching ;
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but the Law of Similars demands
the most devoted service of its
adherents, and refuses to give itsbest results to anything like slip-hod
practice. Nosodes are subjectto the Law, like any other homoeo-athic
remedy, and it is necessaryfor the prescriber to know whenand how to supplement their actionat any moment. Labour-savingdevices and generalisations are ofmuch value to the homoeopath, andare eagerly welcomed ; but it mustnever be forgotten that eternalvigilance alone is. the price of suc-ess
in homoeopathy. This is thereal reason why there are not morehomoeopathic doctors. It is so much
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easier for teachers of established
medicine to denounce homoeopathyex cathedra than it is to master it ;and it is so much easier for their
students to accept this judgment assufficient, than to investigate thematter for themselves, that there is
no immediate likelihood of a greataccession to our numbers.
I will now relate the last of mycases.
Case VII.
Master R., aged 6, a verydelicate, nervous boy, with a badfamily history behind him, includ-ng
lupus and cancer in his
paternal grandparents, was underme for constitutional treatment,
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suspicions, and she had always hada dread of whooping-cough for herboy, as her husband's only brotherhad died of it. I told her I believed
it was the beginning of whooping-cough, but I did not think she needbe at all alarmed. I told her to
keep the boy quiet. He was to haveno fatiguing walks, but he mightwalk out in the forenoon when the
weather was fine.
]J Pertussin 30, gl. x. ; aq. gviii.;a dessertspoonful every four hours.
December 29. Eleven days laterthe boy was brought to me again.There was a great change inhis condition, and this is whathad happened. The characteristic
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whoop appeared after a fewdays, generally in the early morn-ng.
He retched twice in the
street after he had had the medicine
two days, and he brought up agreat quantity of glue-like expec-oration.
The attacks in the
street were so characteristic, thatcareful mothers of families who
happened to be in the street at thesame time prudently -passed by onthe other side, to avoid carryingthe infection to their own- children.
The whooping only lasted a dayor two ; the sickness only occurreda few times. The expectorationhad ceased three days before hissecond visit, and now he hardly
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coughed at all. I examined hischest,, and found that the signs ofcatarrh had completely cleared up.
Repeat, night and morning only.In this case the remedy had
acted by developing at once the
crisis of the disease, and then wiping it out. The same thinghappened in Case IV., but the curewas longer in being effected, as ithad been longer in developing.In Case VII. the cure was
brought about in a little over aweek.
The patient was able to return toschool when the holidays came toan end.
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CHAPTER III.
CONCLUSION. SOME LESSONS
FROM THE CASES.
T N relating the above cases we
have not exhausted the interest
they contain. There are still someuseful lessons in practice to be
deduced from the observations.
There are several ways in which
remedies may be introduced into
the homoeopathic Materia Medica.
The classical way is, of course,
Hahnemann's original method of
testings or provings on the
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healthy. This he soon found it pos-ibleto supplement, by observations
made on patients under the influenceof a remedy. A remedy given oncertain indications will often remove
symptoms which were not beforeknown to be part of its symptom-list. The observer who watches
the case notes this effect, and he
may prescribe the remedy to anotherpatient presenting some of these newsymptoms. If in the second casethese symptoms are relieved or re-oved,
he is entitled to regard themas part of the drugs symptom-listor pathogenesis, as it is techni-ally
called. Again, when a remedyis given to a patient it may, in
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addition to relieving him, exciteother symptoms which are no partof his disease, and are not known
to be part of the drug's causation.These symptoms should be notedand tested in the same way, and if
confirmed in practice, they also maybe added to the drugs symptom-list.
In making use of nosodes, thephysician may proceed in exactlythe same way as with remedies
derived from plants or minerals.The first nosode used in homoeo-athy
was so introduced. Hahne-annhimself proved Psoricum,
and his proving has been the basisof its use in homoeopathy eversince. But this has not been
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the case with all the nosodes,and it was not the case with
Pertussin.
It is self-evident, that every caseof an infectious disease is, in effect,a proving of the infective principle.This being evident, it follows thata symptom-list compiled from thesigns or symptoms of a largenumber of cases of any infectious
disease supplies a solid basis onwhich the homoeopathic physicianmay prescribe its nosode. It alsofollows that the nosode must bemore or less homoeopathic to everycase of the disease.
But the homoeopath can neverlose sight of the necessity of in-
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These preparations will not pro-ucethe actual disease, and they
will not endanger the health ofthose who test them ; but theywill produce symptoms, and thesesymptoms are valuable guides totheir use in any morbid condition,whether part of the original diseaseor not. Provings of this kind havebeen mostly made by homoeopathicphysicians on themselves, from thetime of Hahnemann downwards.
Pertussin still remains to betested in this way, or proved ;but in the meantime, the evident
symptoms of whooping-cough, andthe history and diagnosis of whoop-
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ing-cough infection may be taken asthe indications for its use, as wasdone in my cases. In the course of
these cases everal symptoms of adistinctive character were removed,which may be tested in future cases,and, if confirmed, may be looked
upon as leading indications for theuse of the nosode. These symptomsare :
(1) Itching of the palate onlying down at night.
(2) Stinging pain in or on thechest, with cough.
(3) Sickness, or feeling of sick-ess,at the end of cough.
(4) Sobbing or sighing at endof cough.
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(5) Strangling sensation withcough on waking.
These symptoms I commend tothe notice of homoeopathic physi-ians,
and ask them to observe
whether their experience confirmsthem or otherwise.
A further important point inhomoeopathic practice is to observethe Relationships of Remedies.It is not often that a single remedywill cure a case of disease. Some-imes
it will even a single dose ofthe remedy. But more often therewill come a time when the remedymust be changed and another given.It is then of great importance to
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know which remedy to select next.It will often happen that the indi-ation
for the next remedy is soclear that there is no room to doubt
which to select. But that is not
always the case : several remediesmay be apparently equally well in-icated.
It is then very useful toknow if experience has proved thatcertain of these agree well with, andcomplement the action of the onewhich has done well but ceased tobenefit. For some remedies agreewell with others ; some arrest theiraction or over-action, or, in otherwords, act as antidotes. If an anti-ote
is required, it is valuable tohave a list of the remedies which
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have proved antidotal to the remedygiven. I f a complementary remedyis required, it is useful to have alist of remedies which have been
found by experience to follow theremedy well, and carry on its work.
Can we, then, gain any infor-ationon these heads from the
experience of my seven cases ? Ithink we may infer that Pertussin is
followed well by Corallium, Causti-cum, and Podophyllum. At any rate,these remedies acted well after
Pertussin had given marked reliefto the patients.
On the other hand, I think it
maybe inferred that Infiuenzinum
is in some degree inimical to the
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action of Pertussin. An attack of
influenza brought back whooping-cough symptoms in one case whenthese had been nearly cured. Thisattack of influenza was cured with
Influenzinum, and after that Per-tussin could do no more for the case.
With these observations, I placethis small contribution to an im-ense
subject before my readers.With all the earnestness which I
can command, I entreat my homoeo-athic
confreres to give to the useof the nosodes the very deepest andmost careful attention.
In hoc signo vincimus.
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74 Index.
Feet, cold, 34
Hahnemann's original method of Prov-ings, 61
Homoeopathy, the method of curing likeby like, 18
Hydrophobic virus, Lyssin or Hydrophobin,18
Hydrophobin, hydrophobic virus, 18
Influenzinum, 30, 53, 70Internal derangement, Podophyllum a
remedy for, 46
Law of Similars applicable to the useof nosodes, 38
Measles, virus of, 19Morbillin, measles virus, 19
Nepenthe as a sedative for persistent cough,35
Nosode, derivation of the term, 19 a homoeopathic term, 19
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Nosodes of homoeopathy, their preparation,20
safety and curative powers of, 20
do not exclude other remedies, 31
Pasteur treatment, 17Pertussin, 25, 29, 36, 41, 43, 47, 58Pertussin, virus of whooping-cough, 19
cases cured with, 24-60
Pricking in roof of mouth, 35Provings of nosodes, how made, 65Psoricum proved by Hahnemann, 63
Relationships of remedies, importance of,68, 70
Serum treatment of diphtheria, 18 Serums and vaccins, dangers associ-ted
with the use of, 20Sickness, a leading feature of whooping-
cough, indicates Pertussin, 41, 43Stannum, 35Stinging sensation in the chest, 49 ; Apis
for, S3Symptom-list of a disease gives a basis for
prescribing the nosode, 64
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