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New Cure for Consumption

By Its Own Virus.

II,I.USTRATED BY NUMEROUS CASKS.

BY

J. COMPTON BURNETT, M. D.

FOURTH EDITION.

^*Ubi morbus ibi remedium.^^

PHII^ADELPHIA :

BOERICKE & TAFElv. 1900.

COPYRIGHTED

BY

BOERICKE & TAFEL.

1900.

T. B. & H. B. COCHRAN,

PRINTERS,

LANCASTER, PA.

5*

PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION.

A THIRD EDITION of my ** Cure of Consumption*' being called for, I am again in a position to confirm my previ- ously expressed opinion of the therapeu- tic value of the virus in simple uncom- plicated not-too-far advanced bacillary, or true tubercular phthisis. I claim that this I have now absolutely proved.

Of course, this treatment has called forth many enemies.

What good thing does not ?

But has not Koch's system failed? they exclaim.

To this I reply. What I advocate is not Kochism at all, — that is a proceeding of great danger; my treatment is truly with the virus of phthisis, but on homceo-

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pathic lines entirely; and properly carried out, it is quite harmless and yet withal powerful for good. I am very sure if Hahnemann were now alive he would have been ahead of us all in the use of the viruses of diseases in high potencies. He, at any rate, would have realized that the greater the virus the greater the remedy; and that not merely as a learn- ing-tinged motto, but as a real guide in practical clinical work.

A number of physicians of my acquaint- ance absolutely refuse even a hearing for the particular remedy here treated of. And then? Well, if I were con- sumptive I would not care to be their patient. If phthisis can be cured with bread and butter or attar de roses, well and good; but if not, then let us have something that will cure it. Now I main- tain that, taken early, we have in Bacil- linum a real remedy for phthisis pul-

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Preface. v

monalis, and for a considerable number of otherwise incurable forms of tuber- culosis; and eight years' experience backs up this affirmation, and Father Time will confirm it.

J. COMPTON BURNETT.

86 WiMPOIvE STRKBT,

Cavbndish Square, W., January^ 1894.

PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION.

When the first edition of this work went to press, now just a year ago, Prof. Koch had not yet divulged to the world what his remedy was, and hence I could not be quite sure that he and I were on similar lines, but from the published effects of his remedy, I felt sure that we were not far apart. Since then Dr. Koch has admitted the nature of his remedy — the Tuberculinum Kochii — so that I now know what I then was only firmly con- vinced of.

Since I penned the preface to my first edition — though only twelve months ago — much has happened. Koch has been semi-deified, and his remedy lauded to the skies; now the reaction has set in. Koch modestly declined the

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deification, as, on a certain occasion, did Paul and Barnabas, and now any medical pigmy is big enough to throw a stone at him ! And his remedy ? Amost uni- versally voted ** useless as a cure, and terribly dangerous. ' * Koch and his world- famed remedy have come and — gone ! But they will return anon and . . . remain ! — only the dose will get smaller and smaller until the long-contemned homoeopathic dilutions will acquire the rights of citizenship in the universities and hospitals of the world.

What now bars the way to the further progress of Kochism is the awful admission that will have to be made of the therapeutic efficacy of the infinitesimally small; the little dose is the great barrier to its onward march; the barrier will be knocked down in time, and then what a rush there will be to prove it !

Homoeopathy is the winning horse at the Medical Derby of the world, and

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will presently be hurried past the winning post by Orthodoxy itself as her rider.

And what effect has the past year's ex- perience had upon my own views as to the therapeutic efficacy of Bacillinum? Simply to confirm them: my ''Five Years' Experience in the New Cure of Consumption" has simply become six; and having enlarged my clinical borders by this additional year's experience, I have only to add that I have nothing to take from my first edition — the further year's observation having fully confirmed the views therein set forth.

November 14, 1891.

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.

For a number ot years, notably during the past decade, the medical branch of the scientific world have been intently occupid and hard at work with the minute living causes of infectious and other diseases, and secondarily with the poisons or viruses of the disease processes as a cure or prophylactic of the self-same diseases; more particularly is M. Pasteur best known to the world at large in this connection.

But wherever the cure of disease is concerned, the practitioners of scientific homoeopathy have ever been in the van, and it is therefore not surprising that they should have been before all others in using the virus of consumption where-

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with to cure consumption itself. But a number of years ago, the leaders of the dominant sect of the medical profession raised a hue and cry against those of the homoeopaths who were so unspeakable as to use the virus of consumption against the disease itself; and for fear of an unbearable amount of opposition and ignorant prejudice, the practice was dis- countenanced and almost discontinued — a few only publishing here and there a striking case of the cure of consumption by the virus of the process itself.

I am one of those on whom the opposi- tion and ridicule have acted as an incen- tive to further observation and research, and for the past five years I have regularly used the bacillic virus as a part of my daily practice, and that in the aggregate with great satisfaction. Thus it is that the material that makes up this small treatise has been slowly accu-

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mulating, and was intended to form part of a greater work on the general subject of the cure of grave forms of disease by the viruses of the disease processes themselves; but here Dr. Koch breaks in with his great epoch-making discovery of a new cure for consumption, and which turns out to be none other than our old homoeopathically adminis- tered virus, against which the hue and cry was long ago raised by the very men who now lie prone at Dr. Koch's feet in abject adoration. The differences be- tween our old friend Tuberculinum (which I have ventured to call Bacilli- num, as the bacilli were proved to be in my preparation* by an expert in practical bacteriology).

I say the difference be- tween our old friend Tuberculinum or Bacillinum and that of Koch lies in the way it is obtained; ours is the virus of

♦Very kindly made for me by Dr. Beath.

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the natural disease itself, while Koch's is the same virus artificially obtained in an incubator from colonies of bacilli thriving in beef jelly; ours is the chick hatched under the hen, Koch's is the chick hatched in an incubator. The artificial hatching is Koch's discovery, not the remedy itself or its use as a cure for con- sumption.

I think very highly of Koch's remedy, as the world will no doubt call it, and I know that he is on the right track. I am more sure than Koch can be himself, because I used it five years before he knew it, and he has yet to prove that his results are satisfactory. There is one other difference, /. e, , the mode of admin- istering it to the patient; I use the rem- edy in high potency, which is not fraught with the palpable dangers of Koch's method of injecting material quantities under the skin, or, in other words, straight into the blood.

Of course, if

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• Dr. Koch's dosage and mode of adminis-

i tration should give better results than we

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have obtained, then Koch's method will have to be adopted. But my present opinion tends to the opposite conclusion. Still we will leave that till Koch's method has been properly tried. Mean- while, here is my own

Five Years' Experience.

Although I maintain that Dr. Koch's remedy has been very well known for a long time, whereof our vast but unfortu- nately almost unknown literature bears ample testimony, still his labors and their results are all his own, and we shall all of us honor the honest worker and distinguished savant, while at the same time we claim simply for ourselves what is rightly ours. True, we work in the obscurity of schism, but we work, never- theless; and although to him all the honor, and to us ridicule, misrepresenta-

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tion, and hateful slander, still we praj' that we maj' never be weary in well- doing.

November 21,1 890.

FIVE YEARS' EXPERIENCE

IN THE

NEW CURE OF CONSUMPTION.

IT would be over fifteen years since I first occupied myself with the question of the therapeu- tical use of the viruses of certain diseases against the diseases them- selves. And there are but few viruses that are known to science that I have not used as therapeutic agents, notably in hopelessly bad cases of consumption, cancer and the like. I will not enter into the results here more than to say that they are very difif erent,and differing,

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and at times contradictory ; some of the cures with them have been very remarkable, and will some day see the light. In this paper I will confine myself to the virus of Con- sumption, I had used this here and there tentatively and timidly, but could not make up my mind to test it fairly; I say fairly, because a string of desperate cases do not constitute a fair test of any remedy or prin- ciple; that is how people com- monly try homoeopathy. I think it must be six years since, that I read the record of a case of consumption cured by the bacillic virus in highish dilution ; if my memory serves me rightly, it was by Professor Clapp.

I think I called attention to it in

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reviewing a work while I was still editing the ^'Homoeopathic World.'' It made a lasting impression on my mind. The late Dr. Ameke's (of Berlin) startling paper on the nse of certain proximate principles (a^ sketchy translation whereof I pub- lished later on in the ** Monthly Homoeopathic Review ") greatly in- terested me. I tried a few, and at times was much struck with my re- sults, several of which were beyond anything I had ever witnessed before.

I may instance the truly wonderful curative effects of Chole- stearin in cancer of the liver, and which I have noted for publication.*

*See my * * Greater Diseases of the Liver. * ' Boericke &Tafel, Philadelphia. 1891.

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But consumption is the ever- present enemy, and I presently formulated to my mind the proposi- tion that there must be some means of finding out whether the virus of consumption could cure consump- tion or not. I determined to try some of it upon myself, — I not being in consumption. I took it in varying doses at various times, the 30, C, C. C, in the form of pilules.

Effects of the Poison of Con- sumption UPON Myself.

One eflFect was constant, viz., a severe headache, worse the day after taking the poison, and lasting on till the third day. This headache I felt every time I took it ; I fancied

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the headache from the thirtieth was much worse than from the hundreth. The kind of headache I could only describe as far in, and compelling quiet fixedness. The headaches recurred from time to time for many weeks.

The next constant effect upon me was expectoration of non-viscid, very easily detached, thick phlegm from the air-passages, followed after a day or two by a very clear ring of the voice. The third effect was not quite constant, viz., windy dyspepsia and pinching pains under the ribs of the right side in the mammary line. And, finally, dis- turbed sleep — distressful. There was a little cough on three occa-

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sions, but only very slight, and only just enough to raise the phlegm, which came so easily that one might almost say it came of itself. This done, I began to use the virus with, not more confidence exactly, but with more familiarity.. One of my very early cases of bad phthisis, which the virus quite cured, was the daughter of an aged army surgeon then resident in South Wales. The old gentleman has since gone home, but Miss H. is now a fine, stout woman, whom I really failed to recognize when she came to thank me for her cure^-She must have gained thirty pounds in weight.

But as I cannot lay my hands on the notes of the case I will count it for nothing.

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In my little treatise, entitled " Fistula and its Radical Cure by- Medicines," may be found a case of urinary fistula in which the bacillic virus saved the patient's life, and cured his disease with the help of other remedies, but I will not count that case either as anything, be- cause the virus was not always given by itself. In the cases which I shall now cite the virus was al- most invariably given absolutely by itself. When I say that the virus was given by itself, I do not neces- sarily mean that the case was treat- ed with that as the only remedy used before or after, but that at the time it was so given it was so given alone,and its action carefully noted.

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The idea that the remedy of a disease may lie in itself reaches back to the youth of the world. Moses's lifting up the serpent in the wilderness is a symbolic simili- tude ; ** take a hair of the dog that bit you " almost formulates a doc- trine. The homoeopathic concep- tion can hardly be separated from the idea of curing the disease by a bit of itself, for the simple reason, that if you alter somewhat two things that are identically the same you reduce identity to similarity.

When I speak of consumption or phthisis, I mean the real tuber- cular disease, the genuine more or less infectious consumption, whether it is of the lungs, brain or whatsoever other part.

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Thus far I have sought to lead up to my thesis proper — my five years of practical experience of the cure of consumption by its own poison. In my small essay, en- titled '^ Diseases of the Skin from the Organismic Standpoint/' p. 7, begins the following case : —

Hydrocephalus, Eczema, Latent

Vaccinosis.

In the early part of the year 1885, I was requested to see the only surviving child of a country clergyman, who had been given up by three medical men, as it had water on the brain. The child's head was of the usual hydrocepha- lic type ; he was alternately wake- ful and delirious at night, and he

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talked nonsense by day at intervals. Their local doctors had taken a con- sultant's opinion, and they agreed that the boy was suffering from tuberculosis of the meninges with effusion, of which a little brother had previously died. The child's life-history was told to me, and I underlined the facts that he had had eczema, and had been twice /^^successfully vaccinated. After the ^wsuccessful vaccinations (want of organismic reactionary power) the eczema almost disappeared, and very soon the present disease began.

I treated the case thus causally ex'hypothesi\ a severe pus- tular eruption, and then patches of lepra and eczema appeared, and at

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the end of about six months' treat- ment I was able to discharge the little patient, cured of his water on the brain and of his skin diseases. I saw him the other day, and learned that he continues well and has grown a good deal.

When said essay was sent to the proper quarters for the opinions of medical experts, one of the reviewers called attention to the fact that I had not named the rem- edies which cured the boy, and called upon me to make them known. Well, the remedy of the case was the poison of consump- tion ; after taking this in a high potency and infrequently, the head went smaller ; the delirium ceased.

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as did also the nocturnal halluci- nations and fright, and the pyrexia entirely disappeared. I happen to know that the cure holds good to date, now nearly six years, though a certain amount of irritability of temper remains.

I did not mention the remedy then, thinking the world not ripe for it; but now that Professor Koch's large dose injections of the same substance are the order of the day, my harmless infini- tesimals will hardly meet with any objectors, rather shall I expect to incur ridicule. Anyway, it was the virus of consumption that cured the case, and nearly six years testify to its genuineness and lastingness.

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Allowing that to count as my first case, I will proceed to my

Second Case.

About two years ago I was called to a boy of 3 years of age in the night, with diarrhoea, furious fever, burning hot skin, great heat in the head, red flushed face, and eyes turned upwards, quiv- ering and rolling. Patient had been ailing a little, and ordinary homoeopathic remedies had been given in vain. Considering the case to be one of incipient tuber- culosis, I gave one dose of a high potency of its virus ; within an hour patient quieted down, went to sleep, burst into a free per-

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spiration, and awoke in the morning greatly improved, and very soon completely recovered, and is liow a very fine boy.

Case III.

I was called last year, also in the night, to a bairnie of some 20 months of age, who had been ill for days with "something in the head,- ' highfever,restlessness,andconstant screaming. I had seen him from his first ailing, and prescribed onr usual remedies,but they took practi- cally no lasting effect. I had seen the child in the evening and pre- scribed for it, and did not apprehend any mischief, although there had been no sleep for some forty hours, but when called in the night I was

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greatly alarmed at the child's f alien- in and collapsing state, and I feared the worst. There was the peculiarly fetid smell of the child's body, such as I had noticed in the previous case. Moreover, he was the brother of Case II., and of both very numerous near relations had died of consumption at different periods, and one young cousin had died of tuberculosis of the brain coverings. . I gave an infinitesimally minute quantity of the phthisic virus on sugar of milk dry on the tongue

and the result ?

I hardly like to pen so remarka- ble a result, as it looks so strangely

improbable Patient fell

asleep within ten minutes, and ut-

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tered thereafter no further screams. He made a rapid and complete recovery, though his forehead still gives him a rather old-mannie look.

Case IV.

In the early fall of thisyear, 1890, I was called upon to prescribe for a tall girl of 12 years of age, of a distinctly phthisic habit. She had a tedious little hack of a cough that had lasted for months, and refused to yield to the common homoeo- pathic remedies. As before stated, she was tall for her age ; she had long fingers, almond-shaped nails, a long neck, indurated glands in the neck. Infrequent doses of the phthisic virus in high potency rapidly altered the entire face of

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the case, the cough went in ten days, and in a few weeks she was reported "perfectly well and getting quite fat." Many of this young lady's relatives have died of tuber- culosis. It is in just this early stage of consumption that the virus acts with such promptitude and brill- iancy. And I will add that the action of Psoricum is often very nearly equal to it in old cases, whereof I could cite some very notable examples, but here they would not be apposite.

Case V.

In the early spring of 1887 a

young lady of 15 years of age was

brought to me from the North,

for her age she was very big. She

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had very large tonsils, chronic run- ning from the nose, worse in the early morning on rising ; her speech was thick ; her thorax, the so-called pigeon-breast ; she menstruated freely; she has moist palms, and she perspires across the nose a good deal; she gets chilblains. She feels very chilly, and I find her spleen a good deal swelled. Dis- tinct dulness ^n percussion at the apex of the right lung.

As patient had suflfered badly from vaccination, I ordered my favorite arbor vitcB. This brought no change for the better ; her per- spiration of chest, armpits, palms, nose and feet became very bad.

The virus of consumption was

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here administered ; the thirtieth at twelve days interval, and after one month of this the perspirations had greatly diminished; after two months the dnlness on percussion at the right apex had gone, the chest took on a much better shape (the depressed right side stood out much better). In another two months of the same medication she was in capital health, and her mother wrote me at the end of October, 1887,—" She is so well." And now, two years later, I am able to say that she has never looked back, and is a bonnie per- son — just a wee bit stout, perhaps. Patient had altogether forty-eight globules of the virus, of the thirtieth potency, spread over four months.

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Case VI.

It is nearly four years since, the exact date being February 25, 1887, that a married lady, then 38 years of age, mother of seven children, came to me for a bad cough, that troubled her all the more as she was then enciente. This cough was worse on going to bed and on getting up. She had been four times vaccinated, and three out of the four were unsuc- cessful. She had suflFered from leucorrhoea a good deal, and from coughs.

As she had had three sisters die successively of consump- tion (at 28, 32, and 40 years of age respectively), her husband was

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much concerned about her future. Considering her family history, and the fact that the apex of the right lung was consolidated, though I did my best to cheer him up, I had sad misgivings myself. She had from me in succession, and with very striking benefit, the fol- lowing remedies in the order named, Thuja 30, Pulsatilla 3"", Bel- lis perennis 3*, Sepia 12, Hepar suL 6, Thuja 30 (a second time), and Nux vomica 3^". We found patient after these remedies; at the end of the month of October, 1888, in a pretty bad way ; there was the same dulness on percussion at the apex of the right lung, the same little hacking cough continuing all day.

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and exacerbating at bedtime and on rising, and patient was very thin. I then determined to try the phthisic vims. After being nnder it for a month she did not trouble to re- port herself till March 15, 1889, and then she only came because she had a cold, and therewith some cough again. She had been so well all the winter that she considered herself quite cured.

Here I re- peated the October prescription of the virus, and I discharged the patient cured in one month and two days therefrom, viz., on April 17, 1889. She has never looked back, and is now a stout woman.

Case VII.

At the beginning of July, 1887,

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a young woman of about 30 was brought to me, far gone in con- sumption. She was very, very emaciated, the menses had ceased. Her two sisters had died in the same way, and aW hope for her recovery had long since been aban- doned; but hearing, or rather having observed, a young lady in the same neighbourhood get well of consump- tion under my care, her mother accompanied her to me. Having used Thuja (the poor thing had been vaccinated four times, the last three unsuccessfully), Calc,^ Hypo- phos.^ and Cardius MaricB^ with decidedly good results, I felt en- couraged, and thought it almost possible yet to save her if we could

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only get rid of the fever. With the virus I succeeded in doing this after a few months; patient lost her cough to a very large extent, the expec- toration came down to a mere nothing, and she put on a few pounds in flesh, and lived for nearly two y^diXS free from consumption^ or rather, free from the ordinary symp- toms of that disease, such as fever and cough. Her mother said to me one day, — " You seem to have cured the consumption, and yet my daughter gets weaker and weaker every day, and the dropsy goes on getting worse and worse." And so it was ; and of the dropsy she died, nearly two years after the consump- tive process seemed cured. This

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case is unique in my experience. The phthisic virus cured thephthisis so far as I could tell. I used a good many remedies then to meet the varying symptoms with, at times, very good eflfects, but the effects did not last. To give some idea how persistently I treated her, I will name the remedies she had from me, — Frag aria vesca ^, Cheli- donium majus ^, Ceanothus Ameri- canus I, Scilla maritimaO^ lodium 3^, Aconite^ Baptisia 3"^, Pyrogen- ium 5, Calc.

Phos,^ Rubia tine- toria^ Fer. acet.^ Cholestearin^ Arsenicum^ Phos.^ Iodoform 3"*^, Pancreatine d.nd Spirit, glandium quercus. Still in the end I failed, and she died of 4iepatic dropsy, due

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to hopelessly far advanced granular atrophy. When I say the phthisis was cured, I, of course, do not mean that to be taken literally ; on the contrary, I mean that though the fever, etc., were quite extin- guished, and patient's condition was for some months relatively comfort- able, still, the frequently recurring haemorrhages showed that occult processes were still going on within the closed circle of the economy.

Case VIII.

I will now briefly narrate the successful case through which Case VII. came under my observation: —

The patient was 17 years of age, and her sister had just died of con- sumption of the lungs.

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Patient was very anaemic, sick- ish, pale almost to whiteness, pro- found debility, dyspnoea, cannot mount or hurry, menses very ir- regular.

" She is going just like her poor dear sister, she has the same fever every evening.''

Of the diagnosis there could be no doubt, and the sister's fate de termined me to use the virus 30. This was on the 4th of October ; on the ist of November then next following, I find in the case a record: ** Certainly better, the evening feverishness has gone."

I then used the virus in higher potency (and at all times and in all cases at certain intervals). She

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got quite well of all the consumptive symptoms, but remained neuralgic and anaemic ; but these ailings having been righted by Mangan. acet. I, Zincum acet. i, Fer. acet. i, I discharged her cured. She is a fine, bonnie woman now, and any- thing but consumptive looking.

Here I conclude that the phthisic virus acted, and acted adequately, curatively — its stop-spot being on the offside of the disease as ex- pressed in this damsel.

As to the use of the other reme- dies, I would specially insist upon the fact that the phthisic virus only acts within its own sphere^ and that this sphere is very sharply de- fined as to time, and what it does

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not do soon* and promptly it does not do at all. Its action is, if I may so express myself, acute : its chronic equivalent is Psoricum.

Case IX.

*' I have come to town again for the purpose of preparing to go abroad. You will remember that you advised me to go south last year, and that I spent the winter and spring at Cannes. You sent the powders to me there. Those white powders did me a great deal of good — almost set me free from

'^Second Edition : When I say sooriy I mean that its action begins at once — only, of course, as phthisic processes are gen- erally chronic, the treatment thereof must also be the same, i, ^., chronic.

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bronchitis. Since I last saw you I have had but very little bronchitis. I look well, and people tell me I am looking very much better than I did last year.''

The complaint was dependent upon a phthisical taint in the con- stitution, and it was the phthisic virus that cured the case. At first it was given over two months, and later on for six weeks. The one- hundredth potency in very infre- quent dose. Patient's brother had died of consumption.

Case X.

A city merchant, married, and father of a family, came under my observation in the spring of 1888 for phthisis and fistula, or, I would

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rather say, for fistular anaemia and " consumptiveness," for the con- sumption was not declared, though the experienced eye was not to be misled. The whole circumanal sur- face was red ; glands of the left side of the neck very much indu- rated. The gentleman's poitrinary constitution may be accounted for, seeing that his father was dying of consumption when patient was bom.

I treated him with much success with Kali curb. 30, Nux vomica i, Hepar suL 3, Silicea 6, and Hydras- tis canadensis ^, with two intercur- rent courses of, each one month of the phthisic virus, and in seven months — end of 1888 — discharged

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him quite cured, and, so far as I could tell, sound, in all respects. I have never seen him since, and I believe he has never looked back.

Case XI.

The following case is striking. On April 23, 1888, a lady and gentleman brought their only boy, 2 years and 8 months of age ; he was their only child, because their other two had died of tuberculosis of the brain, and this one was going the same way, and with the same symptoms, and at about the same age. The parents told me nought of all this till I had given my diagnosis; these were the symp- toms. He is fretty and ailing, whines and complains, feelably in-

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durated glands everywhere, hottish, drowsy, urine red and sandy, much given to be frightened, particularly by dogs. Has been vaccinated, and had thereafter a dreadful arm for four months. He would not smile for or at any one or any thing, and when spoken to forthwith began to whimper. His skin was dingy, his skull hydrocephalic.

Diagnosis : Tuberculosis.

When I had fenced awhile with the anxious mother's questions, she broke down and begged me to be candid, and then told me of their sad troubles and loss of their two previous children. I then stated the diagnosis, but stated that I hoped I should cure it. Of course the

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parents tried to believe the welcome prognosis, but could not, and went home in terrible distress of mind.

I began with Aconite and Ckam(h mtlla 30.

April 30th. — Better a good deal; sleeps very well ; less drowsy, urine better.

Pulsatilla i was then given.

May 14th. — Urine normal; no longer drowsy; but the glands and anatomical condition no better. I had often treated such like cases with steady, general, and particular amelioration of symptoms, but I had by this time grown wiser, and fully recognized that the stop-spot of such remedies as Aconite ^ Chamo- mil la and Pulsatilla was a long

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way on the hither side of a cure. Said I to myself, .... This sort of remedy only goes up to the tuber- cle, and the tubercle sphere is their

stop-points But it is the

tubercles that kill ! I therefore began with phthisic virus.

June nth. — Not sleepy; sleeps quietly at night; he is wasting; frets and whines ; urine normal.

Mindful of the vaccinosis, I thought it probable that as that was the more recent, and planted upon the tuberculosis, the vaccinosis would have first to be cured.

Thuja 30.

July nth. — Was better, but yesterday was at a flower show, and he now screams a good deal.

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1 8th. — He has got over this attack, and the glands are a trifle less. He now sleeps badly again. The previously administered one- hundredth (centesimal) of the phthisic virus not having acted as well as I anticipated, I came down to very infrequent doses of the thir- tieth.

August 2 2d. — Appetite better; nights good ; not drowsy by day ; urine red and brick-dusty a week ago ; is still mum and fretty ; he is stronger; can walk further; glands of the neck much worse, notably those on the left side.

Pulsatilla 3^ and Calc, C, 12.

October 17th. — He is worse, and

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screams dreadfully in his sleep. I then put patient again steadily upon the virus alone as our only chance, and the patient was dis- charged cured on January 7, 1889. At the end of the year I received this letter : —

** ^th December 1889.

*' Dear Sir, — I feel I must thank you for your kind advice and trouble you have taken in curing my little son .... I am happy to say he has taken a change for the better for some time past; he has made flesh, and has so altered that you would scarcely know him. Hoping he will keep so; and should anything hap- pen that he is not so well I shall

fly off to you,'* etc.

Since then I have heard nothing, and so conclude that the cure is permanent.

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The striking amelioration in the boy which filled the mother with gratitude, and impelled her to write the above, I take to be the natural healthy growth of the boy, which set in after he was cured of the tubercles.

This case greatly impressed me, and, moreover, much encouraged me. Evidently it has only been taken just in time; a little later and the phthisic virus (at any rate in my homoeopathically prepared infini- tesimal quantities) would have been unavailing.

Case XII.

A little girl of 6 years of age, daughter of a country squire, being under almost ideally perfect hy-

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gienic surroundings, her father, however, suflFering from chronic pul- monary consumption, fell ill in the spring of 1888. There was fever, wasting, abdominal pains and dis- comfort, and restless nights. The glands of both groins and on both sides of the neck enlarged and in- durated, some were vissible on sim- ple adspection. Except that she had been vaccinated in the usual way, she had had no illness. The local family doctor considered her case a very anxious one, and had small hope of her ultimate recovery.

I gave the virus in the thirtieth potency, and at intervals of nine days. This was on July 27th.

On August^ 2 7th I find noted in

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my record of her case: — ^*Was nearly well, but is now feverish again; cries out in her sleep; straw- berry tongue; very feverish." I then repeated the virus, but in the one-hundredth potency, and at the same intervals (to allow of undis- turbed action, see Hahnemann).

November 2d. — Is better de- cidedly ; has quite ceased crying out in her sleep ; all the glands are nearly well.

Thuja occidentalis 30 also at like intervals.

She remained well for some months (from September, 1888, till May 1890), when, on

May 28th, 1890, 1 thought it was wise to repeat the virus, as on August 27th, 1888, and this set her

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right; and after three months she continued well, except for a slight stomach derangement, which Pul- satilla I and Arsenicum 5 put right. She is now well.

Her younger sister I treated for a much minor degree of the same constitutional state with lodium 3"^ and Glonoin 3^, with seemingly complete success, and therefore I did not need to have recourse to the bacillic virus.

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There are certain cases of what may, perhaps, be termed Consump- TivKNESS, but where the patients, through being fed largely and richly, manage to get stout, even very fat, and who yet are distinctly

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afflicted with the tuberculous taint, and who in the end get diabetes, or go into common consumption. Such a one was a very big, stout, provincial gentleman, of bright, florid complexion, who came under my professional care in the spring of this year. His mother died young, of phthisis, and his only* sister is stated to be going the same way. He gets pneumonia very often in the cold weather, and hence he now goes from place to place to avoid cold.

He coughs much, and brings up much phlegm. As his father died of pneumonia, and, as I have just ob- served, his mother of consumption, he regarded his own outlook with

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reasonable apprehensiveness. He perspired very profusely, drank huge quantities of fluids, some of them alcoholic, and had wretched, sleepless nights, with almost con- stant fever. The glands of his neck were very much enlarged. He was three months under the bacillic virus, and was then a very dijSFerent man ; he now sleeps well ; the glands are well (^.

<?., cannot be felt); the temperature is now normal ; no cough ; no phlegm ; and his tissues are much less watery. He is, therefore, not so huge, and much more active.

Case XIV.

I have had another case so much like the one just narrated that I will

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merely note it shortly. There was a similar unhealthy parentage, the same liabilty to pneumonia, the same watery hugeness of body, the same same sort of cough and wet phlegminess, the same excessive perspirations and thirst,and restless nights. But no fever as a rule.

The treatment was mixed; the bacillic virus had not the same de- cided effect, but under it he went smaller in bulk, but did not lose weighty from which I conclude that he really gained in proper flesh, but lost in water from his tissues. In this case Pulsatilla^ Spiritus glandium quercus^ and the Acetum lobelicB greatly aided in his cure. When I lately saw him, and passed

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the time of day, he cried after me, " Oh ! I am splendid."

Case XV.

A young lady, unmarried, aged 19, was brought to me by her father at the beginning of the month of July, 1889. The hectic flush of the cheeks announced the dreadful diagnosis ; shortness of breath for long, much worse the past three years ; little hacking cough ; a number of strumous scars of various dates in the neck ; dusky skin ; there are large moist r^les in both lungs; amphoric sounds in the right lung ; increased vocal resonance of right lung; there is a large soft- feeling gland in the left side of the

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neck; a very pronounced endo- cardial bruit, best heard at the apex beat; and the before-mentioned hectic flush.

July 1 2th. — Trit. 3"^ lodoformum in four-grain doses.

Two months of this treatment effected very pronounced improve- ment, and patient had gained in flesh, but the hectic was not touched.

October 9th. — At this date I began with the bacillic virus (C.) Always in very infrequent dose, and, in future, this is always to be understood, so I need not again state this all-important fact. There- after the same remedy (C.C.)

Recovery complete, and she re- mains plump and well. As patient

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lives 150 miles away from London , I have never been able to see her to percuss and auscultate with the view of ascertaining the physical state of her thoracic organs. They were under a promise to come, but as she is so evidently well they do not see the need of incurring the expense and taking the trouble of a journey to town merely for my satisfaction.

Case XVI.

A little boy of 7 years of age was brought to me at the end of the spring of 1890 for symptoms of incipient phthisis; he had had an ill- defined sort of fever, and then the Russian influenza. Consumption being in the family, his parents had

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become anxious about him princi- pally because of his loss of flesh and great prostration, together with a morbid timidity. The glands of his groins and both sides of his neck were very much enlarged and in- durated, particularly the glands over the apex of the right lung. As he had suffered much from vaccination, I first gave Thuja 30, and Sabina 30, and then the bacillic virus (C.) " He has gained in flesh, weight, and spirits ; his nerve is also better, as he has taken to riding, a thing he was afraid of before."

He got quite well, and remains so to date.

Case XVII.

A lady of 56 years of age came

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to me, with what I considered tuber- cular synovitis of her left knee, in the fall of 1889. She walked in with difficulty with the aid of a stick. The thing was evidently de souche tuberculeuse ; she was florid; her mother died young of consumption, and six of her brothers and sisters had succumbed to the same malady in different forms. After two months of the bacillic virus (C.) she reported herself as quite well, and free from pain and inconvenience, and " able to walk slowly without stick for an hour and a half at a time." She is quite well now.

Case XVIII.

A boy of 8 years of age, whose

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mother is in consumption, and of whose ancestors quite a number have died of consumption, was brought to me on September 6, 1889, f^^ these symptoms : noc- turnal perspirations ; (notched in- cisors); indurated glands every- where very large and very numer- ous; drum-bellied; grinds his teeth in the night ; great suscepti- bility to taking cold ; perspirations worse at the back of the lungs and of the head ; big head with bulging forehead; subject to attacks of fever and diarrhoea.

Two months of the virus (C.) cured all these, and he is now well and thriving.

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Case XIX.

On September 9, 1889, a young merchant, 26 years of age, of pro- nouncedly phthisical habit, both of whose parents had died young of lung disease, came to me telling me he had been under nine physicians, and also in a well-known hospital for what may be collectively termed consumptiveness : severe piles ; constipation, and a brown cutane- ous affection on the abdomen, that, I think, has been termed erythrasma. He is tall, thin, long thin neck, and bends forward. He was three months under the bacillic virus, got quite well, and has since married.

He is altogether a diflFerent man. He had subsequently Thuja for

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his vaccinosis, and then Hydrastis canadensis five drops in a table- spoonful of water twice a day for some time. And here I will allow myself to interpose the remark, that Hydrastis given as just named fattens up patients after the cure with the bacillic virus in an often truly wonderful manner. The bacillic virus has a well-defined and limited sphere of action, and very frequently needs to be followed by other remedies, as so few cases are quite simple.

Case XX.

A married lady, 35 years of age, mother of three consumptive chil- dren ; her only brother died of rapid consumption. She had mis-

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carried three times, and was dying piecemeal of excessive menstrua- tion, and had become alarmingly emaciated.

She had the virus (C), and this was followed by Chelidonium majus and Thuja 30, and she was dis- charged cured at Christmas, 1889.

She is now well and in good condition.

Case XXI.

Daughter of the foregoing, 7 years of age, with limbs like sticks; right lung very flat; ribs of the right side fallen in ; indurated cer- vical glands ; strawberry tongue ; spleen swelled ; irritable and rest- less.

She had the virus for two months

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followed by Calc. phos. 3"", and was discharged cured on May 14, 1890.

Case XXII.

The baby brother of the forego- ing was brought on September 1 1 , 1889, in an emaciated state, suffer- ing from chronic diarrhoea, and evidently without the intervention of medical art not long for this world. In my case-notes he is de- scribed as " all glands,'' i. ^., the cervical and inguinal glands feel- ably indurated and visible. With- out doubt his mesenteric glands were the seat of the same consump- tive process and the real cause of the diarrhoea. He had Elaterzum 3 (the motions went off "pop"). lodium 2 and Thuja 30, when he

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was considerably better, but still had the diarrhoea and excessive perspirations. After a month of the bacillic virus, however, his mother reported "Very much better; no diarrhoea ; no perspiration ; we consider him quite well."

I gave him, however, two months of Calc. phos. 3"".

He was reported well on Feb. 24, 1890, and he is now a thriving boy notwithstanding our dirty London atmosphere.

Case XXIII.

An author of eminence, well known in theological circles, a little over 50 years of age, came to me in the fall of 1889, complaining of ter- rible pain in his head, almost abso-

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lute sleeplessness, and profound adynamia. Most of his brothers and sisters had died of water on the brain ; his own right lung is solid, probably from healed-up cavities, as he used to have blood-spitting for years, and after much good treat- ment and foreign travel he " grew out " of his pulmonary consump- tion. His own friends, on advice, were having him ** shadowed," as he was thought to be on the verge of insanity. The pain in his head he described as if he had a tight hoop of iron round it ; his hands tremble ; but what distresses him almost more than anything is a sen- sation of damp clothes on his spine.

It sounds hardly credible, but in

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less than a month after beginning with the virus the pain in the head had gone, the sensation of damp clothes had gone, and his sleep was very fairly good.

As a matter of prudence, I gave it him at long intervals for another month, and then he needed no further treatment. He continues, I believe, in good health, and is hard at work finishing a forthcoming publication.

Cash XXIV.

An anxious young mother brought her fifteen months' old baby boy to me at the beginning of October, 1889. Hewas dark, sullen, taciturn, black-eyed and fattish (the kind of fat that I regard as

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hide-bound). He is irritable, co^- ive, screams in his sleep, and he is very restless at night.

^^His little sister died at 2^^, of consumption of the brain, and she was just like he is."

He had at first some Thuja^ with benefit, but we had not cured him by any means, then I gave the bacillic virus (C), which his mother said made him at first *^terribly ill," and thereupon amelioration set in. Here I gave Calc. Phos, 3^, and he was thought well. But in May, 1890, he had a slight relapse, when I again gave the virus, but this time in the two-hundredth potency. He got quite well and is now thriving.

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Case XXV.

A young married lady, 28 years of age, one child, was recommended to me by her clergyman, and I first saw her on October 21, 1889. She had been under their very able and careful family physician for con- sumption, and then, said she, " I have been to all the physicians." She had formerly been very plump, but is now very thin, and has lost ten pounds in weight during the last two months. ** No one can do me any good, and I want you to tell me if I am to die, or whether there is any chance for me, all my mother's people died of consump- tion." As she had had typhoid very badly, so badly that she never quite

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throve since, although that was eleven years ago, I began with Pyrogenium 5, five drops in water, three times a day. The same prin- ciple that guides me in the exhibi- tion of the bacillic virus guided me in my choice of the Pyrogenium.

Under the Pyrogenium she gained 35^ lbs. in weight.

I should have mentioned that she had no cough ^ though the apex of the right lung is solid, and the part pains very much, as does also the region of the base of the left lung. The vocal resonance was unequal. Besides gaining thus in weight, the top of the right lung is not so dull, and the vocal resonance seems pretty equal.

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She then had Nux vomica i for her indigestion. She is what the homoeopaths call a nux subject.

On Nov. 1 8th she had gained another 2 lbs. in weight, and scaled

8 St. 11^ lbs. (She is a tall woman). She begs for the Pyro- genium again, but instead, seeing the very pronounced hectic flush, I put her upon thebacillic virus (C).

December 4th. — She weighs 8 St. 13 lbs., or ij4 lbs. more than last time. The hectic flush is gone. I continued with the virus.

January ist, 1890. — She weighs

9 St. 2 lbs. Is weak, much indiges- tion, worse at 6 p. m.

Thuja occtd. 30, as I considered the virus had done its work, and

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her two vaccinations had to be reckoned with.

January 29th. — Weight 9 st. 7 lbs., and her indigestion is much better. But there is a little hectic flush again, and hence I hark back to the virus (C.)

Feb. 1 2th. — She weighs 9 st. 9^^ lbs., and is vastly improved. " That medicine tried me a good deal, but I am quite another woman." Hydrastis 6.

March 14th.- She weighs 10 st. but still has dyspepsia, which I think may be from the old typhoid, and hence ordered Pyrogenium 5 as before.

April 8th. — She weighs 10 st. 2 lbs. and is doing well.

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Cask XXVI.

A single lady of 26 came to me in November, 1889, in the first stage of consumption ; both her sis- ters and her mother are said to be in consumption, and both parents of her mother died of consumption.

Beyond dyspnoea and rapid breathing the physical signs were but few : j ust loss of flesh and a greasy, dingy skin. She had two months of the virus followed by Hydrastis canadensis ^, etc., and was discharged cured in the follow- ing May. She is now plump, well, and thriving, so her brother tells me.

Case XXVII.

A city merchant, single, 28 years

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of age, came to consult me early last summer for incipient consump- tion. His mother had died of con- sumption ; his brother is far gone of the same malady. He had an eruption in the skin over the larynx, and his general state was so distressed that I began the treat- ment with Zincum aceticum 3*, five drops in a tablespoonful of water every three hours. This cured the eruption, and I then noted that his skin was very dusky ; he had long had chronic diarrhoea.

Moist rdles all over the chest, with pretty free expectoration. For the state of the bowels I gave Iris versicolor 30, and that cured the chronic diarrhoea, but the expec-

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toration was very profuse. He had been formerly operated on for fis- tula. The bacillic virus continued for two months quite cured him, and he put on some 8 or 10 lbs. in weight. He continues well, and with my approbation has now mar- ried.

Second Edition : He continues well, and his wife has presented him with a fine healthy boy.

Case XXVIII.

A country gentleman brought, or rather sent, his little 7 year old daughter to me on October 4, 1889, for treatment for incipient consump- tion ; the cough was at its worst at 6 A. M. Notched incisors ; very thin and puny; her cervical and inguinal

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glands very much enlarged and indurated; strawberry tongue. She was three months under the bacillic virus, the doses at eight days' in- tervals, and got quite well. She continues thriving. She also had Thuja afterwards.

Case XXIX.

A young clerk, 34 years of age, was sent by his employer to me in the early spring of 1890 to be treated for consumption. He was dusky, pigeon-breasted, and ill-con- ditioned, but had only been acutely ill for three weeks. The haemop- tysis was very bad; respiration rapid. His father had died of lung disease. He was put on Acetum lobelia^ which did good palliatively,

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and then on the bacillic virus (C), which did no good whatever, and he died in a very few weeks. This is quite in accordance with my other experience, when the consumptive process is in full blaze the virus is unavailing.

Case XXX.

An Oxford student of 2 2 years of age was sent by his widowed mother to me two years ago, for a little in- significant cough,rapid respiration, and attacks of feverishness. He was not emaciated, but listless, apathetic, and always tired ; withal of a very sweet disposition, and had all his life been timid and retiring. I treated him to the very best of my ability, and with great care, with

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our usual remedies, and with the bacillic virus, and sent him to places which are supposed to be good for this malady. He did not suffer, but slowly died; his life went out, as it were, from utter weari- ness. I have his photograph be- fore me, taken just before he died, and he, in it, does not even look ill. Perhaps it was thus to be.

Case XXXI.

A gentleman,wellover fifty years of age, whose only brother had died of phthisis pulmonalis, and whose father's three sisters had also suc- cumbed to the same malady, came to me early in the year for severe haemorrhage from the bowels, cough and emaciation. It was the

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great loss of flesh that alarmed him. Under the virus he put on flesh, the cough and haemorrhage ceased ; he looks years younger, and is now well up to work and actively en- gaged in his profession. He ceased to lose flesh. after the second dose of the virus. He continues under my care for a skin affection, and for prolapsus recti.

Case XXXH.

A city gentleman, married, 30 years of age, came to me at the beginning of April, 1890, for an affection of his right knee. In 1877, he was kicked on the knee by a horse, which knocked him over. The knee remained swelled, and ever since he has had intermittent

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attacks of pain in it. He had been to a London hospital, and prepara- tions were being made for an oper- ation. A friend persuaded him to come to me as one known to be averse to operations. The opera- tion was considered to be imperative, because of the supposed tuberculous nature of the knee swelling. This was pretty certain as most of his brothers and sisters had died of tuberculosis — in fact, of fifteen, ten had thus died ; and lie himself has expectorated clots of blood, and suffered from exhausting sweats.

Two months of the bacillic virus cured him completely, the last ves- tige of tenderness and swelling, however, disappearing under Be His

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perennis ^, six drops in a table- spoonful of water continued for a month.

Case XXXIII.

A married lady, about 30 years of age, came under my care some six years ago, sent to me by a colleague in the north. She had long been in consumption, and her husband had taken her to almost all the renowned health resorts in Europe, but the disease progressed. Finally a warm house was built for her on the Surrey Hills, and I paid visits to her at short intervals for some four years. With the aid of the bacillic virus, and Phosphorus^ Bryonia^ Scilla^ Ceanothus^ lodium^ Calc. Phos.^ Calc. Sul.^ the Hypo-

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phosphites, Ant. tart.^ and some otherSjincluding Churchill's inhala- tions, Terebinth^ etc., I several times thought to win. I got two successive cavities to heal up, but the third, deep in the base of the left lung, refused to heal, and the poor lady, weary and worn, died of exhaustion.

Case XXXIV.

An unmarried lady, 29 years of age, whose sister had just died at the age of 30 of consumption, and whose mother had also died of the same malady at the age of 39, was brought to me by her father early in April, 1889. She was considered a hopeless case, and my hopeful prognosis was not credited. The disease was principally confined to

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the right lung, and the cervical glands on this side could be felt like marbles. She is thin, skin dingy and dirty looking, ill smelling and greasy, and there was a good deal of acne of the chest. The bacillic virus, with Thuja and Hydrastis^ enabled me to discharge her cured in four months.

Case XXXV.

The little son of a distinguished clergyman, 25^ years old, was brought to me on May 9th, 1889, for feverish attacks that were clearly pointing to tuberculosis, evidenced by the strawberry tongue, the indurated glands, and pining state generally. The bacillic virus, followed by Thuja and Bap-

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tisia^ was followed by perfect re- covery and in three months he was discharged 'in rude health.

Case XXXVI.

A babe of i8 months, whose sis- ter I had formerly cured with the bacillic virus of a tuberculous affec- tion of the eye, was, in consequence thereof, brought to me in May, 1889, for soft bones and nocturnal rest- lessness, with pallor and thinness. I knew the family well for years, and thus was quite sure that the child was necessarily bom with a tuber- culous tendency. And the virus cured her right off in six weeks, and her poor digestion was then righted by Pulsatilla^ and she continues ever since to thrive, and her bent

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bones have hardened and become straight.

A first cousin was formerly under me with tuberculosis of the men- inges, but as I then knew nothing of the virtues of the bacillic virus, she was cured by me of her symp- toms, and then died of the disease, viz., tuberculosis.

Case XXXVII.

A lady brought her baby boy to me at the beginning of May, 1885, She had had four children. One died at birth, and the other two died of tubercles of the brain. Patient's scalp was the seat of a good many scabs ; his forehead bulged ; very bad nights all his life, and he is peculiarly fond of salt. I had him

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rubbed with oil, after the manner of the old practitioners of renown ; Psor. 30 did him much good, and rather ameliorated the nocturnal diarrhoea, and his head seemed to bulge rather less. And after he had also been under Calc. Carb. 30 a very severe pustular eruption came out on his scalp, with much relief to his general condition.

But very suspicious pyrexia occurred at frequent intervals. Here followed Thuja 30, but nothing was really adequate till I gave the virus 30 in infrequent doses, by which he was metamorphosed into a healthy boy; fever, feverishness, calling out in his sleep, and grinding his teeth, all disappeared. He pined a little in

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1888 in the spring; a fortnight of the virus quickly righted that, and beyond Calc. Phos. he has needed nothing else.

Thus we have in this case five years of good health to prove the genuineness of the cure.

Case XXXVIII.

In the year 1885 a young lady of 20 was brought to me to be treated for the form of consumption commonly known as decline. She had a strumous scar in the neck, and her sister had just died of decline.

Patient's weight was, in June, 1885, 7 St. 8 lbs. Had had diar- rhoea for nearly three years, and her tongue was raw- red. The full

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record of the case would occupy more space than I can here aflFord; suflBce it to say that I gave her many remedies with very slow and varying success, but she took a dis- tinct turn after a course of the virus, and I finally got her up to 8 St. 95^ lbs. in weight.

She continues well now, but her digestion is easily upset. It will be noted that the aggregate increase in weight was 15^^ lbs.

Case XXXIX.

A married lady, 29 years of age, came to me just four years ago for consumption of the left lung She was very pale and neuralgic, and was greatly distressed by her cough. All her friends knew her to be in

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consumption, and she had of late years spent the winters abroad and by preference in Malta. I treated her with slow, bit-by-bit ameliora- tions with the remedies symptom- atically homoeopathic, and thus passed just two years, when it was very clear that we had not got to the root of the matter. After a couple of months of the virus she got rapidly quite well, and, so far as I can tell, entirely free from any sign of consumption.

Case XL.

An overgrown girl of 13, of phthisical habit and parentage, and

then lately under Sir for her

lungs, was brought to me for treat- ment in the month of August, 1886.

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The top of the right lung gave no respiratory sounds at all, and the vocal resonance was slightly in- creased. Her constitution was said to have been broken by one of the infectious diseases of childhood. Pain in the left side and profuse perspirations. After a month of the virus 30 : " Has done her a great deal of good, the perspirations were chiefly on the hands, feet and armpits, but these have nearly ceased." After a pause of a month or two it was again given, and patient was discharged cured nearly three years ago.

She continues well.

Case XLI.

A girl of 10, daughter of a

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country squire, was brought to me in March, 1887, to be treated for de- dine. There was great emaciation, but not of the feverish (Consumptive kind. She had a number of remedies from me. Thuja^ Ceanothus^ Quer- cus^ Chelidonium^Ferrum^ and Car- duus^ and, on the whole, every one was more than satisfied with the general progress and increase in weight and intelligence.

But not one of the remedies had influenced the indurated glands in the slightest degree, and hence I put her on the virus 30. This was in February, 1888, and the same remedy had to be repeated once subsequently. She is now a thriving person.

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Cask XLII.

An unmarried lady, about 30 years of age, was accompanied to me by ber mother, in the month of August, 1887, so that I might treat her for decline. Her father had died of consumption at about the same age, and her steady and ever- increasing emaciation had resulted in a fixed belief that she was just doomed to follow her father. She h ad a huge liver, and severe and long- continuing dyspepsia. Her father s was also the wasting form of con- sumption.

She had some fever at times, with a hard, dry, deep cough. On account of the liver I began the treatment with Chelzdomum fol- lowing it up with Carduus Marzce^O

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and this B,gQLmwithAr£-enium nzt.i. These remedies did decided good, and were followed by Cimicifuga^ Coaus cacii^ Thuja^ and Iodine^ but notwithstanding bit-by-bit amelior- ations, relief of the symptoms, and all that, the "consumption" was not gripped, as the evening fever clear- ly proved. Three months of the virus wiped out the whole thing, if I may be allowed to use such an expression.

A year has elapsed, and t?he cure holds good, notwithstanding the wearing, burdensome life she is obliged to lead, and still, this not- withstanding, she has gained a good deal in flesh and healthful appear- ance.

96 Five Years'^ Experience in the I believe the virus saved this life.

. Case XLIII.

A young lady of 14, daughter of a staff officer, was brought to me at the end of the year 1887, in the month of November. She was dis- tinctly in consumption, and very tall for her age, and very thin. Twice, lately, there had been a good deal of bleeding from the lungs. The outer portion of the apex of the right Itmg was dull on percussion, indeed, it had barely any respiratory sound of any kind ; scaly eyelids ; very large tonsils ; emansion of the menses.

I at first treated her with Phos. and other pulmonary reme- dies, but I needed the virus to extinguish the fever. She had

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inter-current pleurisy once, and a good deal of bleeding, but has made a complete recovery, and is now thriving. I quite lately very care- fully examined her chest, both the old seat of the mischief at the apex of the right lung, and also the seat of the inter-current pleurisy at the left side, near the top, but failed to find any evidence of disease what- ever.

Case XUV.

A lad of 10 was brought to me by his mother in the early summer of 1888, with mesenteric disease, commonly called consumption of the bowels. ^* My little boy has a swelling on his left side, I think there was a swelling also of his

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right side, and he complains of a stitch in his side after running, but he seldom runs much. He is often languid and indisposed to talk ; sometimes he is very nervous and irritable ; he talks in his sleep and grinds his teeth; his appetite is small ; his hands blue.''

I found indurated palpable glands everywhere ; a drum belly, the spleen region bulging out.

What rendered the case of im- portance, was the fact that a sister of his a year or two older had just died of tuberculosis of th^ brain, and many of the family had died of consumption. I treated him for a year, three separate months of which he was under the virus, and

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in June, 1889, or just a year from the beginning of the treatment*,

the note in my record is

" Well and fat," and that he is now^ I believe.

Case XLV.

A little girl of 6 was brought by her mother. Lady X., in the month of August, 1888, for evident symp- toms of incipient tubercular disease: restless nights ; sleeplessness ; grinds her teeth ; tendency to diarrhoea ; want of appetite ; foul breath ; notched teeth ; pain after food ; vomiting of food ; indurated glands ; strawberry tongue ; naughty; very irritable temper; puny growth ; very thin.

After being four months under

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the virus, and having one or two tissue remedies, she was discharged in nine months in capital health, and without any morbid symptoms of any sort or kind. And the cure holds good to date.

Case XLVI.

A young unmarried lady, 22 years of age, of delicate habit of body, was brought by her mother to me in October 2, 1888, for the following symptoms: — A nasty lit- tle cough these seven weeks ; a good deal of expectoration ; pains in the right lung; evening fever; liver and spleen both enlarged ; cough worse in the morning after break- fast ; her neck is slightly goitrous. Her brother has consumption of

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the bowels. She had first Chelt" donium majusO^ and Scilla mari- tima 0^ as spleen and liver remedies respectively, but there was but very slight amelioration , the cough being very bad after her breakfast, or, perhaps, I should say breakfast izme^ as she eats hardly any break- fast. So I went to the root of the matter, gave the virus (C.) for six weeks, and then discharged her cured, now ten months since, and I learn from her mother that she con- tinues quite well.

Case XLVII.

A married lady of 40 came to me in November, 1888, for grave con- sumptiveness, not to say actual consumption ; almost all her people

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have died of consumption, indeed, I believe she is the only survivor of her own generation, and now she is clearly going the way of the rest. She has a good deal of fever, worse in the evenings ; she is restless and terribly irritable ; she is much de- pressed, and in almost constant agitation ; her tongue is very red ; she has chronic diarrhoea. She has lost i4lbs. during the past six weeks, and she has no appetite. Six weeks of the virus 30 quite cured her, the fever went after the second dose, the diarrhoea quickly followed, and she soon became quite plump.

The mode of exit of the motion from the bowels in this case was, ** pop,'' as it were out of a popgun; this I have

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several times noticed. It has often been noted that the phthisical are wonderfully hopeful, but this does not hold good when there is tuber- culosis of the brain, but, on the contrary, they are mum, taciturn, sulky, snappish, fretty, irritable, morose, depressed and melancholic, even to insanity. When, however, they are cured, they become sweet and charming. So it was in this case, and still more so in the one I am about to narrate.

Case XLVIII.

A young lady, 18 years of age, was brought by her mother to me in the fall of 1888 for an old effusion into the left pleura remaining after severe pleuro-pneumonia ; the ribs

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of that side bulged a good deal ; respiration accelerated, and also the pulse ; her teeth are foul and dis- coloured {not from want of the most scrupulous care); the heart is a good deal disturbed, probably me- chanically ; patient sleeps but very little, and that little is very distress- ful; she is painfully conscientious, depressed, and suffers greatly from spiritual melancholy. Her period comes very seldom. She is subject to lichen ruber, and gets feverish. She was two months under the virus C, and this effected an essen- tial cure, but other remedies were needed for the non-consumptive part of the case, for, as I have before stated, and here again expressly

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point out, the tubercular virus acts within its own sphere only. Thus, in this case patient had been twice vac- cinated, she had Thuja occidentals 30 for a month; Bryonia i^ was used for getting the pleura better ; Pulsatilla \^ brought a good deal of comfort to the ovarian region, as did also Cimicifuga,\^ Bellis per- ennis ^, Rubia tinct, ^, and Ceano- thus I , did much to restore the sym- pathy of the left costal region, and Ignatia amara i was of real service in the emotional sphere — and yet, for all that, the actual consumptive- ness was wiped out pleasantly and promptly by the virus.

She is now quite well these seven- teen months.

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Case XLIX.

A little girl of 7 was brought to me in the month of December, 1888, with tuberculosis disease of the left knee. For eleven months she had been limping ; the knee is much enlarged and very tender ; her teeth are tuberculous ; there are numerous cases of consumption in the family, and her father had spine disease. After one month of the virus 30 the swelling of the knee had gone down one-third, the joint had be- come more movable ; the straw- berry condition of her tongue had gone, and her teeth had cleaned. She had thereafter two months more of the virus C, and got quite well; the remaining enlargement of the

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knee yielding to a course of the third decimal trituration of the Perlarum mater.

Case L.

This is one of severe hip- joint disease of a severe type and of long- standing, who was long under Dr. Drysdale, and who handed the case on to me when the family removed to London. The child eventually quite recovered, and is now a fine girl of 16, but of course the leg of the diseased side is shortened. Dr. Drysdale, and the orthopaedic sur- geon who kept patient in his very excellent apparatus for several years, will be both interested in hearing that the essential remedy

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in the case was the virus of which we are here treating.

Case LI.

A young gentleman of 20 was accompanied to me in February 1889 in fully developed consump- tion. There were all the usual symptoms, and haemorrhage from the lungs for many months. He was tall, good-looking, and weighed 9 St. I lb. I treated him with the virus, and in a few months got his weight up to 10 St. 5 lb., when he, in August 1889, went to the seaside as I thought safe and nearly well. He returned, however, in October voiceless, phthisis of the larynx set in, and he eventually died. Over

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the acute laryngeal process the virus had no power whatever.

Case LII.

A lady of 40, unmarried, came under my care on Oct. 26, 1885. " I am almost in a consumption, and have been so for many years." She was very thin and " consumed with fever." All that one could say of the lungs was that they were very flat, and the respiration almost im- perceptible. It is not easy to un- derstand such cases, they are evi- dently in a chronic state of fever- ishness, they cough, they are thin, they eat very little, they suffer much, and vegetate forth and on languidly. The virus cured this

lady; all the fever left her — she

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had had it **very constantly for years." She no longer takes cold as formerly, and has become plump and thriving. Now amongst her friends and relatives she is gener- ally supposed to have at last'^grown out " of her constitutional delicacy.

Case LIU.

The influence of the virus upon the teeth and their growth and ap- pearance is very striking. What I regard as tubercular teeth are those — often more or less rudimentary — with holes in their external surface. Whether this is a recognised patho- logical fact I do not happen to know, perhaps it is not. But it is an important clinical observation. I recognised it clinically some three

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years since, while treating a highly strumous lady with many scars and glands in her neck. While under the virus I noticed an extraordinary improvement in her teeth, they became a nice colour, and the numerous superficial holes cleaned and partially disappeared. It was even more apparent and striking in the following case : — A girl of ii, with ringworm on the scalp; the lymphatic glands everywhere pal- pable, and her ribs very flat ; straw- berry tongue ; a bad cough, worse at night ; although 1 1 years old she had practically no teeth, that is to say, they were rudimentary and not above the level of her gums. All her mother's brothers and sisters

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had died of consumption; after three months' treatment with our ordina- ry remedies we had made but small progress, and then I kept patient altogether five months under the bacillic virus, with the result that her palpable glands ceased to be palpable ; her ringworm disap- peared; her ribs took on a better form; her breathing was notably better; and, mirabile dictu^ her teeth had grown. She is now well, and has a mouthful of teeth which are quite passable. It may be noted that the ringworm has disappeared, and in respect to this nasty thing I find it generally disappears under the influence of the virus. I learned this very important fact also purely

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clinically in thefollowingmanner:— A whole family of children of diflfer- ent ages had had ringworm for a fnll year, and the mother told me on bringing them that she had already spent over £(iO on medical fees for its cure, but in vain. All known remedies had been applied by the local doctors in two neigh- bourhoods, and several skin special- ists had worked hard at their poor heads, but to no avail. Their heads were shaved and their scalps were well scoured night and morning, but still the ringworm persisted. Finally, a distant cottage had been hired, and the afflicted ones were there isolated, and the services of a noted ringworm curer of the non-

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qualified variety had been secured; but these also failing, they were put under my care. I have had no great cause to complain of the ho- moeopa:thic treatment of ringworm with our antipsorics — indeed, quite the contrary — but it is apt to be a bit tedious at times. Now their mother had been cured by me of incipient tuberculosis with the virus , and it occurred to me that ringworm might be a manifestation of the tubercular kind, and so I forthwith put the whole lot under the virus, administered in the usual way, in- ternally in dynamic dose; this I did all the more readily, as they all had numerous superficial palpable glands.

And the result ? In a very

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few weeks they were all well of ringworm and of the glands, and have thriven splendidly ever since. Something like a dozen bad ring- worm cases have come to me since then, and they were all quickly cured by the virus, and in each case the general state has been greatly improved. No doubt some bacteriol- ogist will cultivate, some fine day, the germs of the ringworm, and astound the world with his subcu- taneous injections. It is well that medical men should approach each subject from a different standpoint as they serve to correct one another.

Case LIV.

This shall be my last case in illustration of my " Five Years'

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Experience in the New Cure of Consumption by its Own Virus." A young lad of 14 was brought to me in July, 1884, for treatment for consumption. For about a twelve- month he had had a bad cough, with spitting of blood, and one of the apices was audibly diseased. He had previously had pneumonia. His chest was flat, and respiration accelerated.

After the use of the virus he got quite well, and nearly fouryearsofsubsequentgood health, free from any consumptive symp- tom, testify to the genuineness of the cure.* There was one feature

*He has just successfully passed the medical examination for service in the British army. — Second Edition,

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in his case to which I desire to call attention, viz., he tanned unduly in the sun before the cure, but not since. For many years I have re- garded the rapid darkening of the skin in the sun's rays as indicative of a consumptive tendency; and as I have verified it many times, I have no doubt about it. I know a little boy who was brought to me for a bad temper : he is the scion of a consumptive family. I noticed that he was very much pigmented where the sun's rays impinged upon him, but not on the covered parts of his body, and his teeth were dirty- greeny.

After he had been two months under the virus, his teeth went clean, and he no longer tanned

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in the sun, and finally he had be- come amiable and good tempered.

Concluding Remarks.

Having come to the end of the task I set myself, I will make a few brief remarks in the form of gen- eral explanatory propositions : —

1. The virus of the consumptive process itself— here termed vari- ously the virus, the bacillic virus, etc. — cures promptly the incipient stages of tubercular consumption in all parts — brain, lungs, skin, joints, etc.

2. The virus is to be adminis- tered by the mouth in what the homoeopaths call high potencies.

3. The doses must not be too frequently administered ; one dose

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every sixth to tenth day is my own practical rule.

4. Low dilutions are inacjmis- sible ; myself I have never gone below the thirtieth centesimal potency, and as I have known even this to give rise to grave constitu- tional disturbances, I now very rarely go below the one-hundredth centesimal potency.

5. At a given stage of the con- sumptive process the virus is no longer a cure, but I have not been able to determine the precise stage at which it ceases to act curatively.

6. Inasmuch as the disease which the virus cures is similar to the one producible by a full dose of the virus itself, it follows that the action

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is homoeopatliic, and the remedy the homoeopathic pathologic simil- limum of the to-be-cured disease.

7. Theoretically the stage at which the virus ceases to be of any use is, I think, where the disease has become aggressively infective in quantity, or bulk, and where ho- moeopathicity merges into identity. Assuming that the bacilli at a given stage of the malady become in quantity aggressively infective, we can readily see that a dynamic simillimum must get, so to speak, swamped, and therefore become inoperative. Hence if it is to cure it must act before the bacilli are numerous enough to get the mas- tery.

Hence also it is not the

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chronicity or age of the consump- tion that determines our point, but the degree of intensity ; a new case may be incurable by it, while a very old one may be quickly and completely cured by it.

8. The power of resistance of the organism in consumption is of the highest importance, as may be seen from the very numerous cures of consumption, wrought by very numerous medicines, by able men of all therapeutic views, by climate, by foods such as cod-liver oil, suet and milk, rum and milk, by calci- fying remedies such as the salts of lime, by oil, frictions, etc., etc., and therefore the use of the bacillic virus excludes none of these, but

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on the contrary, the virus might become the remedy after other more or less helpful means, even after it had been administered in vain previously. For if the body can be increased in healthy bulk, and the power of resistance of the organism augmented, the extreme point of the homoeopathic action of the virus would be pushed further out- It is known that poisons aflfect the human organism according to . its bulk ; it takes more virus to kill a pound of bulk than it does to kill an ounce of the same ; the like is known to be more or less the case in consumption, and this it is that explains the thousands upon thou-

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sands of cures of consumption wrought by feeding alone. Two years ago a lady pretty far gone with her family complaint — con- sumption — and reduced almost to a shadow, and yet with hardly any fever, said to me . . . "Doctor, is there any chance for me, I want to live for my child ?"

I replied,— " Well, Mrs. , if

I were in your place and condition, I should, humanely speaking, get well/'

"How?"

" Will you do it ?"

" I will."

" Then eat whether you have any appetite or not, feed, stuflF yourself if need be, and \{you will

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thus add i8 or 20 lbs. to your bulk, /will cure the disease."

She kept her word, and I — thanks to stomachics, digestives, and then to the bacillic virus — kept mine, and she is now a stout woman in very fair health indeed. Let, therefore, the consumptive beware lest they undervalue the great helps of the past in the cure of con- sumption, which are the common property of all thoughtful medical men of all shades of views thera- peutic, and not rush after the mad notion that any remedy can neu- tralize an unhealthy life or foul air, or counteract carping cares, or supply food and drink, or stamp

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out the footprints of the Nemesis of physical and physic wrongs.

To conclude, I beg publicly to thank Dr. Skinner, of London, for inducing me, sixteen years ago, to administer the virus of a disease therapeutically.

ADDITIONAL.

My first edition was written in great haste, for the primary purpose of vindicating for Homoeopathy the right of priority in the treatment of phthisis by tuberculinum or the virus of the disease-process itself. My object has been fully attained, and the allopathic and lay press of England and, indeed, of Europe, now fully admit that whether the treatment of phthisis by its own virus be good or bad it belongs to Homoeopathy. As an allopathic colleague exclaimed the other day,

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— *'What a God-send Koch's dis- covery has been for you homoeo- paths ; if it is true, he has proved your homoeopathic principle up to the hilt — but I do not believe it is true." So now that it is admittedly the property of Homoeopathy, it is for us to prove to the world that it is true, and therefore a property worth owning. To this end my second edition.

In Germany the first edition has received due attention, and has been translated first by Dr. GouUon, of Weimar, and secondly by Dr. Ren- ner, of London, which latter trans- lation may be found in the " Zeit- schrift des Berliner Vereines ho- moeopatischer Aerzte," B. x., Hv.,

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and Vj., October 20, 1891. Dr. Windelband gives it a very sensi- ble introductory notice, but is evi- dently staggered by the dilutions I have made use of, and yet at the same time confessing that his use of Tuberculinum Kochii in the 6th to loth homoeopathic decimal dilu- tions have given him very unsatis- factory results. Put aside preju- dice, dear Dr. Windelband, and try the higher dilutions in not too frequent repetitions.

THE REMEDY IN THE DISEASE.

The saying " Take a hair of the dog that bit you," shows that the idea that the remedy of a disease may be in the disease itself, is very old in theory. It is also by no

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means modem in practice, it may be found in traces almost every- where and at all periods of history. It is nearly sixty years since Lux published his Isopathik der Conta- gien,

Weber published his work rec- ommending Anthracin as a spe- cific for anthrax at Leipsic in 1836 (Der Milzbrand und dessen sicher- estes Heilmittel, von G. A. Weber) , so this part of Pasteurism is really Weberism.

Psorinum, Autopsorinum ; Vac- cininum, Morbillinum, Ozeninum, Syphilinum, Hydrophobinum, Gon- orrhoeinum, Loiminum, Hippozoi- num (used by Gross in cancer), and some others are recorded as

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curative agents any time during the last half a century.

The very first medical idea I received in my life, now 40 years ago, was that the antidote to the effects of the bite of the adder was to be found in the adder itself; it was communicated to me by a wood- man one day when I was out bird's- nesting. The second idea was shortly after this, and to the effect that warts are inoculable and can be produced by making a wart bleed and injecting of this blood under the skin of a healthy person, and to test the truth of this statement I. at nine years of age, pricked a wart on a school-fellow's hand and made it bleed, and of this blood I placed

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a tniiiute quantity, with the aid of a penknife, under the skin of my left ring-finger and thus succeeded in producing a very elongated wart ; and to this day the skin of the end of that finger has a warty aspect.

My third medical idea received about the same time was that warts might be cured by taking a piece of elder wood, cutting into the bark as many notches as one had warts and then casting the notched piece of elder wood (Sambucus) away and keeping the whole afiair a pro- found secret. And this proceeding I adopted and am now divulging my secret ! But the cure was not efficacious ; iny self-produced wart did not depart, and I forthwith had

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recourse to a very primitive chirur- gical operation and got rid of it. Was Essig werden soll^ tnussfrUh sauer werden I

Who first used the word Tuber- culinum I do not know; I believe it was Dr. Swan of New York; I had it from Dr.

Skinner of London some sixteen or seventeen years ago; but the mode of obtaining it I felt to be altogether too nasty, though the two hundredth dilution of any thing whatsoever — even of original sin — is at least— clean I I believe Dr. Swan is under the impression that he was the first to use and recom- mend the use of phthisical sputum — his tuberculinum. But in this he is in error ; the thing has been done

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time and again, and records of the practice exist. This, however, does not lessen Dr. Swan's credit; though I presume Dr. Swan had his first ideas from Lux through Constantine Hering.

Paracelsus is full of both Homoeopathy and isopa- thy as I long ago pointed out, and the fact that Hahnemann never quoted from Paracelsus is not to his credit, for he must have read him. In regard to the use of sputal tuberculinum I think it can be prov- ed that Homoeopathy and isopathy throve in the sixteenth and seven- teenth centuries, and clearly it was the Homoeopathy and isopathy of Paracelsus that account for not a little of the hatred of the schools

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against him. Sputal tuberculinum was used as a remedy in England in the seventeenth century. Lovers of old books are acquainted with a work by a very learned Englishman which was published 250 years ago, and in which he recommends the sputum of the consumptive for the cure of phthisis. In the ^' Zeitschrift des Berliner Vereines homoeopathischer Aerzte" (August and November, 1890) Dr.

Katsch tells us about this work by Dr. Robert Fludd, Professor of Anatomy, entitled "Philosophia Moysiaca, Goudae, 1638," and quotes from Fol. 149, col. 2, as follows: ''Nonne commu- niter videmus, similem naturam alteratam putrefactione maxime

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esse exitialem suo simili? Sic vermes ejecti e corpore et sicci in pulverem redacti, interna adminis- tratione enecant lumbricos : sputum rejectum a pulmontco post debitam praeparationem curat phthisin : splen hominis praeparatum inim- cum est spleni tumenti. Calculus vesicae aut renum per calcinatio- nem curat ac dissolvit calculum. Scorpio contusus aut corpus ejus maceratum oleo curat vulnera scor- pionum, et oleum viperae ut etiam trochisci camis, morsum viperae, etc."

So : Sputum ejectum a pulmontco curat phthisin was taught by an English profv ssor two hundred and fifty years ago, and, what is even

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more remarkable, /<7^/ delitam prce- parationem.

Twenty-five years ago I was one day standing outside the General Hospital in Vienna when an elderly gentleman passed by my compan- ion and myself and entered under the archway : said my companion to me "Do you see that fellow?" Yes. " He has a stone in his blad* der; he is a homoeopath and is going up to Professor Heller's to get a urinary calculus to cure it with ! "

In the Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, 1890, p. 87, there is a quotation from the North China Herald to the eflfect that the Chinese do not much mind mad

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dogs as whenever any one is bitten by a mad dog it is customary to bind a few hairs of the dog that bit him in the lesion caused by the bite, so that they verily do " take a hair " of the dog that bit them ! It is stated that in Dighia in Baram- bai it is customary to give to the bitten person a piece of the raw bleeding liver of the dog that bit him to eat and that this prevents hydrophobia. (Jaeger: " Ein Ver- kannter Wohlthaeter," Stuttgart, 1891, p. 43.)

Last year Dr. Jaeger issued a pamphlet to the public in Germany recommending to the phthisical the therapeutic use of their own sputum in high potency homoeo-

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pathically prepared.; this he terms the autorison or auto-tuberculinum.

THE REMEDY BACILLINUM.

Since the publication of the first edition letters have reached me from physicians, pharmaceutists, and others from almost all parts of the world asking me to supply them with some of the identical Bacillinum of which I have made use. I would, therefore, like to say that it may be obtained in England of Dr. Heath, 114 Ebury Street, London, S.. W., and in America at any of the pharmacies of Messrs. Boericke & Tafel. In my earliest efforts I made; use of tuberculinum from various sources,

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sometimes obtained from one place and sometimes from another, but I imagine that the various sup- plies were for the most part pri- igarily from Dr. Swan of New York. They acted fairly well at ttmes^ and sometimes brilliantly, but with nothing like the precision, and regularity of Bacillinum, and nothing like so incisively. The best way to get some really good Bacil- linum (if any one wishes to prepare it) is to take a portion of the lung of an individual who had died of genuine bacilUry tuberculosis pul- monum, choosing a good-sized por- tion from the parietes of a cavity and its circumj acent tissue as herein will be found everything pertaining to

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the tuberculous process — bacilli, d6bris, ptomaines and tubercles in all stages (such was practically the origin of the matrix of my Bacilli- num) and prepared by trituration in spirit. In this way nothing is lost. There is, moreover, nothing disgust- ing in this, which can hardly be said of sputal tuberculinum — one in- stinctively shrinks from it. Finally this mode of obtaining our Bacilli- num will result in our having a fair- ly constant preparation, and one which will meet all practical require- ments in the present imperfect state of our knowledge.

No doubt in the future we shall have elaborate and scien tifically-accurate in vest iga- tions into the characters and quali-

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ties of the various bodies that our Bacillinuln no doubt contains ; but we who livenowmust use the means at our disposal, we cannot let our patients die because we have not now the hypothetically perfect patholog- ico-pharmaceutical preparations which it is permissible to believe our more favored aftercomers will pos- sess ; we must work with such tools as we have, and our Bacillinum is beyond any questibn the grandest anti-coHsumptive remedy the world how knows, and is likely to be for long years to come. At the best we can only serve our own generation directly. If we faithfully record our experiences our successors in prac- tical medicine will be able, by fol- io

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lowing us, to do as well as we ; it will be for them to do better, as I have no doubt they will.

TUBERCULINUM KOCHII.

Being more than satisfied with Bacillinum I have not needed to have recourse to Koch's Tuberculinum, but in order to be sure that my high opinion of his preparation was warranted I have used Tuberculi- num Kochii 6 in the form of tincture prepared from Koch's matrix fluid obtained from his Berlin agent, but here I will only say that I have sat- isfied myself that his fluid is a good anti-tubercular remedy adminis- tered internally as a homoeopathic dilution. It seemed to me, however,

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nothing like so good as Bacillinum in its therapeutic effects, and also not equal to the Tuberculinum Swanii ; but as I have had a good deal of experience with Swan's rem- edy and much more with Bacilli- num, and very little with Koch's, I would not prejudice the question, as in the meantime I must consider myself relatively unqualified to give an opinion on Koch's remedy further than to say that it certainly has power over tubercular processes. All the cases that within my own and hearsay knowledge have been treated with Koch's remedy by hy- podermic injection have died One case only that had been to Ger- many and been under a regular

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course of Kochian injections, has come under my personal care, and in this case the effects of the treat- ment were very curious. The young man's pulmonary phthisis was, seen^ingly, cured on the right side^ i. e. the right lung appeared in all respects normal, but the left lung was almost solid. And I think the history of the case in question affords an explanation of the peculiar behaviour of the rem- edy. The point is important in its practical bearing and I will therefore explain.

The young man was phthisically-disposed, was suf- fering, in fact, from what I have ventured to call consumpttveness. It was therefore determined to give

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him an outdoor occupation in a warm climate, and he was accord- ingly sent to Florida, where he en- tered upon the new life, but unfor- tunately, he got the ague of that country and after being greatly de- pressed thereby he was sent back home to England in declared con- sumption, and hereupon his fond father took him to Germany for the Koch cure, and this failing he brought him to me on his home- ward journey, when I found the condition I have just described. His spleen was very much enlarged so that what with a solid left lung and this engorged spleen he was, as before stated, peculiarly left- sidedly diseased. I imagine, there-

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fore, that Koch's treatment might have succeeded if the spleen and chronic malarialism had been first cured ; this I set about doing and for a few weeks patient picked up wonderfully and then I gave Bacil- linum but to no purpose; the phthisis had broken out in full blaze and the young man died. Here I again observed that Bacilli- num has no influence over acute phthisis in full blaze. Had the young man been treated by Bacil- linum when he went to Florida I think he would have been cured by it and my next two cases will give my reason for this opinion.

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A young man of about twenty years of age, brother of the fore- going^ was ailing in just the same way as his deceased brother did before starting for Florida. He was tall, big-made and from his bulk ought to have been very strong, but this he was not but on the contrary very weak indeed, and he had a number of indurated glands in the neck and that was how his brother began.

Three months of the Bacillinum has seemingly quite cured him and his cervical glands can no longer be felt and patient feels quite well and is now employed as an electri- cal engineer here in London.

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A younger brother of the two foregoing, about 12 years of age, was in a similar state and in ad- dition to indurated glands his skin had a very dusky brown aspect, he tanned unduly in the sun.

He also has quite recovered under the Bacillinum and his father not long since reported of him from the country as quite well and hearty. From these two cases I think I am warranted in saying that the eldest deceased brother might have been saved had he had the treatment by Bacillinum at the time of his being sent to Florida.

To cure consumption, therefore, by Bacillinum we must begin early

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with the treatment, and we must ever keep before our minds that each case must be individualized to the extent of not expecting the bacillinic specific to cure non- tubercular manifestations : for in- stance Bacillinum will not cure chronic malarialism as it will also not cure vaccinosis or the hydroge- noid constitution of Grauvogl, and so forth. And as very many cases of consumptiveness and of con- sumption are not merely that, the extra-tubercular part of each case must be cured: each case on its own merits: and hence we see that neither Koch's nor any other fluid ; neither Bacillinum nor any other remedy will, in itself, suffice, in the

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majority of cases, for the simple reason that each will act only in its own sphere, i. e. that to which it is homoeopathic it will cnre and naught else. Of course, to a man who really understands Homoe- opathy this is self-evident ; all the same we are apt to lose sight of it more particularly in the presence of a series of successes, so that unless we are mindful of this, our very successes will in the end land us on the rocks. In fine : remedies cure homoeopathically and not otherwise, and hence a specific is only so far a specific as it is homoeopathic to any given case in its totality — for where there are other pathologic elements in the

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case tlie specific does not cure these other pathological elements ; it is not homoeopathic thereto, and it will, therefore, not cure them, it will only cure that part of the case to which it is homoeopathic; the other part, or parts, of the case must be treated by their similars. I dwell upon this, and reiterate, because of its essential importance to correct views and successful practice. Thus I would refer to a case, mentioned at the be- ginning, of syphilis and tuber- culosis manifested in a urinary fistula ; in this case Mercurius and Bacillinum in alternation cured the case while neither alone would do so. This kind of alternation is,

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I think, really scientific and sound practice. And in the case of the young man who went to Florida I think his chronic malarialism baulked the action of the Tuber- culinum Kochii; and his father told me that the German physician who made th^ injections was greatly puzzled by the curious action of the remedy injected and said he had never seen the like be- fore and could not understand it. He took no account of the old ague; he merely treated tuberculosis with tuberculine; but tuberculine is not homoeopathic to ague. So we must always analyse our cases aetiologi- cally and pathologically as well as individualize them synthetically.

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The neglect (A setiologic diagnos- tics is indeed a " fatal error." Heresy? Tant pis.

CASE OF CONSUMPTIVENESS.

Young Lord X. just verging on his teens came under my profes- sional care in the winter of the year 1890 for a group of symptoms that I have already ventured to lump together under the designation of consuntpttveness; he was pale, spare, neck long and thin, and in the neck his glands visible from their very considerable enlargement and indu- ration, and his temper most miser- able. He had Thuja occid. 30, Phytolacca dec. 3 and Psorinuin 30 all with some benefit, but the really

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radical improvement set in after the use of Bacillinum C, under which I kept him for about three months. Lord X. was discharged cured in nine months in quite a different physical state. No glands in his body can be either seen or felt and his neck must be fully half an inch thicker. The experienced know well what I mean when I speak of the long thin neck of the consump- tive and consumptively-disposed, and if they will treat these thin- necked ones as I here relate they will slowly get a very weighty change.

In case it should be lost sight of I would again expressly state that one dose of, say, six glob- ules of Bacillinum (30, C CC, or

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M.) every eight or ten days is enough, because we want not the remedy itself but its action^ and the action when set up lasts well for a week. And it seems to me that when the Bacillinum is too fre- quently repeated the action of one dose trips up, so to speak, the action of the previously-given dose, and that therefore we get more permanent drug-action from fewer doses than from the same remedy frequently repeated.

I would also like to repeat what I have before adverted to, viz. : Bacillinum will not cure vaccino- sis, for instance, it works in its own sphere only. Also that the progress is much hastened when tissue salts

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are given after the consumptive state has been cured — thus after the Bacillinum had cured Lord X.'s consumptiveness and he was well but weedy ^ Calc. phos. 3^ followed with very good effect. In case any one should think that the Calc. phos. by itself would have effected the cure let such a one take a dozen cases of this consumptive- ness and treat half of them with, and half without the Bacillinum and he will agree with me that it is the Bacillinum which cures the disease. The test cases chosen should be well pronounced because in the very slight cases Calc. phos. will alone often suffice at least for a time.

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I CASE OF INCIPIENT PHTHISIS.

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On the 29tli October, 1890, a country gentleman brought his twenty-four year old daughter to me. Himself one of those experienced semi-professional lay homoeopaths, he had treated his daughter with almost all our usual remedies but their effects did not last. Said he : *^ The worst feature is that she gets fits of rapid respiration, 45 to the minute, and she has lost flesh so." Objectively the circumscribed red- ness of her cheeks at once struck me, and the breasts were very soft and flabby, in fact shrivelled .and this is a weighty symptom in an

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of age. Patient complained of feel- ing very tired in the evenings; pains through the right half side of the neck feelable and even visible ; the right mamma stringy and ten- der.

The bacillic virus in the one-hun- dredth potency produced some im- provement, but not very striking. The rush of blood during an at- tack of hurried breathing reminded me of the action of Urtica and hence the prescription of Urtica urens five drops in a tablespoon- ful of water night and morning. This seemingly cured the patient and* she was verbally reported well on January 5, 1891. But the symptoms soon returned ; the pains

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through the right lung became se- vere and the respiration very rapid. This acceleration of the respiration being very pronouncedly worse in the evening I ordered Psorinum 30.

March 6, 1891. — ^The breathing was normal after the Psorinum^ but it has again returned seemingly from a slight cold. She is less tired in the evening, very depressed, lachrymose ; the glands in the neck only very slightly improved. Bacil- linum C. C.

April 29. — The remedy has acted promptly and decisively; the swell- ing of the glands has gone; the respiration is normal as is also the appearance of patient's cheeks. To continue with the Bacillinum C. C.

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in the same manner, viz., six globules dry on the tongue at bed- time every eighth day. Placeboes being administered on the inter- vening days.

June 19. — Discharged quite well.

November, 1891. — Patient con- tinues well.

Patient's father is being success- fully treated by me for an osteoma ; her mother is asthmatic and was formerly under my care. And what I would specially refer to is the fact that patient's environment is and always has been specially favorable to health and in no way conducive to consumptiveness.

In the first edition I stated how I came to discover that our Bacilli-

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nutn cures ringworm; this dis- covery I regard as of very great importance ; the cure is sometimes rapid, at other times it takes some months, but amelioration soon set in in all the cases that I have treated. I may add that I used in all my cases of ringworm no ex- ternal applications whatever, mere- ly directing the head to be washed with soap and water two or three times a week. I will add j ust one more case of ringworm.

CASE OF RINGWORM.

In the first edition, as just stated, I communicated the im- portant fact — many smaller things are called great discoveries — ^that

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ringworm yields readily to Bacilli- num, and that I therefore regard this cutaneous eruption as a tuber- cular manifestation.

A little girl, five and a half 'years of age, was brought to me at the end of January, 1891, to be treated for ringworm. There was only one ring on the back of the neck — ^but this was well defined. Bacillinum C. was ordered and the whole thing disappeared within the month, and the little lady has been very thriv- ing ever since.

So far as I am concerned in this work the curability of ringworm by Bacillinum is an established fact, and I therefore take leave of the subject so far as this work is con-

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cemed, but in view of its doctrinal and practical importance, I am con- templating a separate essay on ** Ringworm."

LICHEN RUB. DISCOLORATION OF TEETH, NOCTURNAL REST- LESSNESS.

A young lady of fifteen summers and winters came under my obser- vation this summer to be treated for frequent eruptions of red lumps on her skin, much rolling and toss- ing about in her sleep and a greeny-yellow discoloration of her irregular but otherwise sound teeth. Her younger brother was formerly cured by me of a chronic hydro- cephalic condition and blackish

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As a collateral fact the influence of Bacillinum on the teeth I deem of some practical importance ; it has won me the gratitude of quite a number of patients, notably of young ladies and of their mothers, and quite lately Dr. John Young

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changed under the bacillinic influ- ence.

HEMORRHOIDS IN THE PHTHISIC- ALLY DISPOSED.

By phthisically-disposed I mean those whom the experienced eye easily diagnoses as prone to con- sumption, though as a matter of fact they cannot be said to have con- sumption at all and, very possibly, they may never get it. They ail in various ways ; some of them have hay fever and some piles. The phthisical and the phthisically-dis- posed are very prone to piles, notably those who are dark and dusky; and, indeed, I have often found the piles in such more

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troublesome and painful than the phthisis proper.

Simple uncomplicated cases ex- emplify best ; thus : —

In the month of June, 1891, a married man of about thirty years of age, known to me from his boy- hood almost, came to me for chronic piles of a most distressing nature that were making him almost an invalid. He had attacks of pain about an hour after stool ; he was also a chronic sufferer from hay fever, and his teeth were tubercular (indented in dots) and the pains were greatly aggravated by cough- ing and sneezing, both of which he indulged in very freely.

Bacillinum 1000 cured him right

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off in a fortnight both of the piles and of the just-described pains after stool, and to-day, December 7, 1 89 1, he continues quite well and has had no relapse. His hay fever was also seemingly cured in the same rapid way, but hay fever has an ugly knack of returning again and again after you have cured it ! Two or three successive summers must pass before we can rely upon a cured case of hay fever being really cured to return no more. From the remedies I have found useful, and also useless, in the therapeutics of hay fever I have come: to the conclusion clinically that what nosologists and clinicians call hay fever includes several aetio-

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PRE-PHTHISICAL DYSPEPSIA.

A married gentleman twenty-four years of age came under my care on the 2nd of March, 1 891, to be treated for most distressing and in- veterate dyspepsia of three years' standing. He had the character-

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istic symptom " as if a tight rope were bound round his stomach.'' Debility, paleness, acidity; nervous, a kind of dead-all-over feeling. He had from me at first Argentum nit- ricum 3 * with a certain amount of benefit, but he was not cured by any means, and complained very bit- terly. The dyspeptic generally know well how to grumble and their descriptive talents are by no means inconsiderable. But after I had had him a few weeks under Bacillinum C.C. he turned all his talents at graphic grumbling into persuasive recommendations to his sick friends to journey forthwith to see the writer.

One of his friends came a long

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distance — some 200 miles — to see me and burst forth : " You have made a great cure of Mr. , etc.''

I was ultimately led to give Bacil- linum C.C. in this case because of the numerous peripheral glands that were visibly and feelably en- larged and indurated ; by the fact that he had had blood-spitting and because his mother had died of phthisis at 49 and one of his sisters had also died of phthisis.

He considers himself quite well these three months ; I put it in this way as I have not seen him, he liv- ing so far away.

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COUGH WITH CHRONIC PULMONARY

CATARRH.

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it. Said he : "I was always a * coughing ' man, my father died at my present age of consumption, and I have lost a brother and also a sister from consumption."

Two months of the Bacillinum C. quite cured him and he was really a different man, and his friends hardly knew him without his cough so frequently had it been to the fore.

INCIPIENT GENERAL ATROPHY.

A boy of ten years of age was brought to me by his mother at the beginning of the year 1891 for wasting weakness. Rather tall for his age, he presented the following picture : a glum, ancient face, thin,

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almost cheekless, hollow eyes, neck long, thin, studded with ^* waxen kernels," i. ^., peripheral hypertrophic glands, thorax almost like a skeleton, and its cutaneous covering very full of wee veins ; abdomen thin and yet pot-like, the so-called drum-belly ; extremities long and thin ; groins full of feel- ably indurated very small glands. He is mum always, gives no re- plies to my enquiries and his mother tells me he will hardly ever talk ; he takes no interest in strangers or in general surround- ings, and seemingly has no very special desire for anything or any- body, and hardly ever wants either to eat or drink, **And yet," ex-

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claimed his mother, "he is not ill I"

Five months under our Bacilli- num C. and C C. (in ^«f requent dose I will here again reiterate) with an intercurrent month under Thuja 30 and followed by another month un- der Calc. pkos. 3^ and now he is bright, chatty, nearly a stone heav- ier, enjoys his food and is full of interest for his surroundings ; the old shrivelled-up joylessness has gone and given place to cheerful thrivingness. I ordered no altera- tion either in diet or place of abode ; the boy lived before the treatment, and during the treatment and now after the cure, in the same house in a London suburb.

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CASE OF HYDROCEPHALISM OF TWENTY years' STANDING.

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He had the Bacillinum C, alto- gether thirty globules spread over a month and twice repeated, and then reported his pains as cured, and his spirits much brighter. I saw him six months later, and thus know he continues well. '' I have been in splendid health and well up to my work all summer," said he the other day.

CEPHALIC SUFFERING IN LATER LIFE PRIMARILY DUE TO OUT- GROWN HYDROCEPHALUS.

This part of my subject may be regarded as neWy and deserves

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We have all met with cases of oddly-shaped more or less piled-up or bulging-out heads, and these people really bear about with them a cephalic misshapenness (perhaps very trifling, but still peculiar) as the permanent expression of the hydrocephalic states of their early lives. Such people are frequently gifted, their children are very deli- cate and apt to die of consumption ; and although they have grown out of their hydrocephalus and may be gifted and distinguished members

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of society, they generally suffer more or less in various ways ; they are apt to be a bit peculiar in their sexual spheres and their ways — glum sort of folks, by no means excelling in amiability. I know one gentleman whose skull is drawn up somewhat sugar-loaf fashion or rather as if the skull had developed while it was hung up by its top ; his periodical haemorrhoidal bleedings indicate,! think, a tubercular taint. I will further explain what I am trying to express by narrating a case in point which has been all the more instructive to me because he was a faithful patient before I knew any- thing about the virtues of Bacilli- num. He first came under my ob-

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frequent nocturnal emissions not- withstanding the fact that he was happily married. I did not see Wm again for nearly ten years, when on January 30, 1890, he again put in an appearance and complained of insomnia, headaches, and the fact that he still suflFered pretty severely from nocturnal emissions, worse after the exercise of the marital func- tion. The peculiarity of his in- somnia was that he awoke in the very early morning and could not get off again. I have before ex- plained that this symptom is char- acteristic of Bellis perennis^ and as this drug is an excellent restorative from sexual fag I ordered it him, five drops of the matrix tincture night and morning.

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His own estimate of the prescrip- tion was : ** I have never had such a good tonic in my life/'

By this time I had read this gen- tleman's constitution in the light of my later experience, and regarded his head and other symptoms as what I for convenience sake will call " hydrocephalism." His hear- ing troubled him a good deal ; the aurists called it ** internal conges- tion," but his hearing did not im- prove under their treatment ; he suffered from great depression and life-long constipation and his noc- turnal emissions added very much to his irritable melancholy. Here I gave him Bacillinum C. and there- after C.C. altogether during about two months.

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A year has since passed and the great change wrought in him still holds good — this I know because he has had his daughter under my care.

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PELVIC CONSUMPTIVENESS.

Consumptiveness may show it- self not merely in the lungs, in the glands, but also in the brain ; we have cited enough examples of all these manifestations of the tuber- culai- diathesis. But it shows it- self, perhaps almost as frequently, in the pelvic region; as disturb- ances of the menstrual or sexual functions : in young men as more or less furious incoercible nocturnal emissions, masturbations, or ex- cesses in venery, that if not cured run the sufferer to ground. The excessive fecundity of the tuber- culously disposed needs no dwell- ing upon. The g^rls develop very

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I regarded the dyspnoea as from the anaemia ; the anaemia as from the excessive monthly losses and want of appetite, and the menor- rhagia as from a consumptive state of the pelvic organs. Two months

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of Bacillinum C. cured the pelvic consumptiveness, the period becom- ing natural, whereupon the anaemia and dyspnoea began to mend in equal pace ; the remaining painful- ness of the menstruation disap- peared under Thuja 30, and patient was well. With some difficulty I got her to take Hydrastis Canadensis ^, five drops in water night and morn- ing, for a month, and the subsequent two years of capital health testify to the soundness of the curative work then done. I have before pointed out my fondness for Hydrastis in small material doses as an after- cure to the bacillinic treatment. Here I gave it for a month, but at times I give it for two, and I some-

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times use it intercurrently between two courses of Bacillinum with much advantage, not that it has any relationship to tuberculosis as such, but it increases the appetite, and patients under its influence put on flesh of good quality.

HEPATIZATION OF LEFT LUNG.

A gentleman of sixty years of age consulted me on October 13, 1888, for a cough, consolidation of left lung and albuminuria; the vocal resonance of the left lung is very pronounced ; pains in the back, dreadful perspirations. There was a curious point as to the colour of the hair on his hirsute body : that on the chest exactly down to the dia-

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phragm is white ; below the dia- phragm his body-hair is black.

Bacillinuin'30Soon cleared up his lung, but patient refused to go on under my care; said he: "The medicine is awful ; I was seized in the stomach with pain accompanied by diarrhoea and perspirations ; it loosened all my teeth, made my gums sore, set up dreadful vomit- ing," but the left lung seems well.

But I am not sure he rightly as- cribed all this to the remedy, and the less so as he had been saliva- ted with mercury long before. I only cite this case to show the vio- lent action of the remedy even in the thirtieth dilution, and because it rapidly cleared up the left lung, the

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cough becoming much more active. One of his daughters died of con- sumption of the bowels, so he in- formed me.

TABES MESENTERICA. CONSUMP- TION OF THE BOWELS.

In the early summer of this year, 1891, a lady and her asthmatic hus- band brought their eight- year-old boy to me to be treated for chronic diarrhoea of four months' standing, pretty extreme emaciation, a dark mahogany-like discoloration of the skin (all over, not in patches), feel- able induration of glands in both sides of the neck and even more so in the groins. '* He is nothing but skin and bones, and won't eat any-

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thing, and the doctor has been treat- ing him for worms bnt he gets no better." Hereupon the mother burst into tears and was not to be pacified for several days, she seemed to feel he would die. " His grandparents are sure he will die." Indeed I at first gave a bad progno- sis and was only induced to modify it by the mother's distress.

Three months of Bacillinum slowly and completely cured the boy, and a letter reached me this day to say, ** R. is so well and bonny," and a fortnight ago the governess wrote me, ** R. is as well as ever, and needs no more medicine." The boy himself I have not seen since his treatment, but it is pretty evi-

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dent that he is now quite well. He had no other remedy at all to ac- count for the cure.

Strumous Glands.

Said a young mother to me on the 30th of September, 1891 : "I have brought Leonard to you be- cause he grinds his t^eth so at night and I think he must have worms, his mouth gets sore and there are sores in the comers of the mouth ; he is so thin and his glands are swollen — in fact, he is just as he was when I brought him to you last time when he was four years old. I want you, please, to give him the same powders you sent him then, as they cured him at once and quite set him up.-'

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I turned up my case book and found the entry following : " April 5, 1889. — Leonard X., aet. 4 (near- ly) ; has a strawberry tongue and a very offensive chronic discharge from the left ear ; behind the left ear there is an indurated swelled gland, and there are some hard feelable glands 'in the neck." And what was the remedy in the powders the mother wanted again for her lit- tle Leonard ? Bacillinum 30 ; one dose of six globules on sugar of milk every 12 days.

In my judgment there is not any higher testimony to the efficacy of a remedy than that of a mother when she remembers and picks out a given prescription of two years and

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a half ago. The little man's sister had pyothorax after pleurisy last winter, but she is quite well now.

CONCLUDING REMARKS TO SECOND

EDITION.

I have received kindly communi- cations from various parts from those who have used Bacillinum as recommended in this work, and with one of these I will close this second edition :

** Ramsgate, Aug. 13, '91. * * Dear Sir — I have read with much in- terest your book, * New Cure for Con- sumption,* and am acquainted with four persons who have been greatly benefited through taking the virus. One, a young woman, aged 28, came here last March in the second stage of consumption ; had

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**The third case was a young person far advanced in consumption ; left lung affected ; could not lie on the left side. After taking the virus was certainly better, and could sleep on the left side.

** Third case, a child, wasting away, and poor appetite. She is now looking bonny and gaining flesh.

Now, little book, go forth and tell to all concerned that, thanks to the labors of Paracelsus, Fludd, Lux, Hahnemann, Hering, Pasteur, Swan, Berridge, Skinner, Koch and many others, phthisis and the tu-

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bercular diseases generally have definitely entered the list of medi- cable diseases. But finally, and for the last time, the remedy must not be administered by injection; itmust be given in high, higher and high- est potencies and the doses must be

FAR APART.

To those who can use only low dilutions I solemnly say . . . Hands oflFI

THIRD EDITION.

PART III.

I AM called upon by my pub- lishers for a further edition of this work, and as I have the opportunity of enlarging it; this I do in the hope that its usefulness may be in- creased ; but as I am hard run for time just now I shall not be able to add much Reproaches have been levelled against me by some re- viewers for defects of style, inade- quate descriptions, and omissions of details ; I plead guilty, my Lords.

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But I would submit as an exten- uating circumstance the fact that most of what I write is done in odd scraps of time, sometimes in car- riages or at railway stations, and not infrequently when tired, and ofttimes when weighed down by anxieties and responsibilities in- separable from the life and labors of an advocate of absolute free thought in matters medical. In proportion as prejudice gives way to knowledge and to the teachings of experience, so the particular remedy here recommended will gain in favor with the enlightened who are earnestly engaged in bat- tling against diseases. I do not expect such a remedy to find favor

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all at once, and my prime object in bringing out a further edition is to be useful to my fellow-man. Thanks to Professor Koch the task is a possible one, and I am grate- ful to him accordingly.

Of course, it is not suggested that Bacillinum is a specific for all cases of phthisis, of every kind, and necessarily it will do no good in those cases of phthisis to which it is not homoeopathic ; something that will cure every case of any malady bearing a given name is, of course, non-existent.

Still, bacillary phthisis taken early,and complicated with nothing else, is curable by Bacillinum, and this I say after eight years' experi-

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ence at the bedside and in the con- sulting-room. Anything even ap- proaching to it in therapeutic efficacy is thus far absolutely un- known.

Where, for instance, vaccinosis is also present, the vaccinosis must be first cured or the phthisis re- mains uncured, do what you will.

When there is a primary spleen affection that led up to the phthisis, such a case must be approached from the spleen as a starting-point, or the treatment fails. When a liver disease underlies the whole maladive state, and phthisis only coexists with it, the liver malady must be first cured.

When this state arises from an

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hereditary syphilitic taint (I say taint ^ not the disease proper) , the specific nosode may te required first.

When the phthisis arises from a cancerous parentage, Bacillinum alone will not always suffice, until other remedies have prepared the way.

When the constitution has been damaged by typhoid, by malarial- ism, by alcoholism, by cinchonism, and so on, all these must be thera- peutically reckoned with, or success will not reward our efforts. Wher- ever, in fact, phthisis coexists with other diseases, or taints of diseases, the Bacillinum touches the bacillary part of the case only.

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When phthisis supervenes upon overcrowding, conventicular or monastic life, excesses of the various kinds, bad food, foul air, chronic sewage poisonings, wounded pride, unrequited love, bad drinking water, active oft-re- newed infection from marital or other domestic ties, or from the air, walls, bedding, etc., it will be vain to expect the simple adminis- tration of a remedy of any kind to cure unaidedly if the active cause still remains present and operative.

I have verified nearly all these varieties, and beg my readers to lay them to heart and make sure of their ground before giving an opinion on the subject. It is simple

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uncx)mplicated phthisis taken early that can be cured right off the reel by its pathologic similimum.

The following case will well ex- emplify :

CASE OF ACUTE PHTHISIS CURED BY BACILLINUM.

I have rarely been impressed with any case more than with the following one of acute phthisis, and I think it would be very difficult to find a more direct proof of the simple art-cure of a very dangerous malady.

A single gentleman, from a very healthy part of Kent, aged 24, had been ordered abroad in the month of October, 1891, for acute phthisis,

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and so severe were his symptoms that he came straight away up to London in that month to arrange for some one to take over his busi- ness previous to starting. The merchant to whom he went in the city urged him to come and get my opinion before disposing of his busi- ness and going abroad. He came, and I found his condition indeed one of intense anxiety, and had he come to me before I knew of the virtues of Bacillinum I should have advised hasty departure from our fogs and damp. But I thought we might possibly cure him with the said remedy, though I did not feel very sure that he was at all curable by any means whatsoever, so very

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used the one-thousandth dilution of the remedy every fifth day.

Towards the middle of November his sleep had greatly improved ; nearly all the tubercles had dis- appeared from the throat; no further blood spitting ; much mattery ex- pectoration ; still had fever, but only in the evening ; all cough gone, and his appetite had begun to improve.

By Christmas he was practically cured, and business being brisk, he ceased attending.

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improved. ** I have gained quite a stone in weight, and everybody wants to know what sort of treat- ment I have been having.''

If this patient had gone away as he was ordered, I am of opinion that he would have succumbed to his malady. " Going away " is by

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no means synonymous with "being cured." Not a few go away duti- fully enough, but the return ? Ah I they commonly enter upon a long journey whence no man returneth.

October i6, 1893 — I heard to- day from the said merchant that this gentleman continues quite well.

The rapid cure of this case was clearly due to the fact that the case was quite recent, uncomplicated, and had not yet reached far down the lungs ; the larynx was also not affected. I cannot exemplify the action of the remedy better than has here been done, and so I will conclude for the present by send- ing this third edition to the press for the benefit of those whom it may concern.

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The subject of advanced and complicated cases of consumption I hope to treat of in a subsequent and separate publication. To my brother practitioners I would say, Shake off the shackles of prejudice and try for yourselves whether, and how far, I maybe personally carried away on the wings of enthusiasm for my subject. But mind, only high dilutions and no Kochian in- jection, — and, moreover, if you give the doses too often you will fail^ as I formerly did before I learned the lesson that the patho- logic similimum of a disease must be administered in high potency and infrequently. Moreover, the worse the case the higher must be

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" How many cases of this typho- malarial fever have you cured with Pyrogenium?*' said I.

" Oh, I could not tell you ; very many.''

Dr. Majumdar used the Pyro- genium in one-drop doses of the sixth decimal dilution given every three or four hours.

From the Homoeopathic Recorder (p. 311) I take the following :

" another witness for the clin- ical value of tuberculinum (bacillinum).

" On April the 17th I was called to see Adele L., aged about two years ; found her in a convulsive condition with twitching and spas-

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modic contraction of the muscles, great hyperaesthesia of the skin, photophobia, nausea and vomiting ; temperature 103°; great cerebral excitation ; nervous temperament ; prominent roundish forehead, small face and slightly downward look of the eyes. Bowels constipated, attacks of colic, grinding of the teeth, terrible thirst for water ; very slightly open fontanelles and sutures. With these symptoms and many others less prominent my prognosis was, of course, very guarded, the chance of recovery being extremely slight; but with the powerful guns that homoe- opathic remedies furnish, I was not willing to announce to her loving

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parents that their only little one could not live, and I therefore mus- tered all the courage I possessed, and said that, while I considered their little one very dangerously ill, still I had hopes that she might pull through, and went into the fight with a determination to win if possible. To make a long story short, my first prescription, on account of the intense thirst and small, rapid, tremulous and in- termittent pulse, sensitiveness to touch about the head, was He lie- borus nig, 30 ; this remedy seemed to control the eagerness for water, and the pulse, but stopped there.

"My next prescription was Apis meL 30, dil. Continued this remedy

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*The same as Bacillinum.

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She said she believed a thousand people called to inquire after the patient ; and, of course, all kinds of friendly advice was volunteered, both as to remedies and physicians, but the parents stood firm in the belief that it was not good policy or safe to ^ swap horses while cross- ing a stream,' and to-day they have their little one well, but weak, and feel well satisfied with their first venture with Homoeopathy. To-morrow they go to Atlantic City with our little patient to enjoy the invigorating breezes of Old Ocean for a time.

^^ Scranton^ /ia:., June 12,1891." In the same Homoeopathic Re-

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corder (pp. 260-1) Dr. Boocock gives a very interesting account of his experiments with our virus, thus:

" A PARTIAL PROVING OF BACILLI-

NUM.

'^August 2,1892. — A very cloudy day, warm damp wind ; feeling very much depressed and worried about business and finance ; very bad headache.

*^ Having a patient coming to me of a consumptive diathesis, or troubled with ' consumptiveness,' I had procured from Boericke & Tafel Bacillinum 30th and 200th, but not having any looth I con- cluded to make some myself. I took

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I had no cough before, and yet I now had a tickling in my fauces and must cough ; the headaches continued, and weakness and feel- ing in and under my left breast deep in.

" (I have counted 50 drops of this, and have saturated 4 oz. of No. 35 globules, and I am going to call this my 100 C.)

** If this dilution, 2 drops or so, can make one in health feel as I did, I am sure there is a power in dynamization. A very restless feel- ing, not able to read with profit, so went to bed early; very restless slept well ; when asleep, no dream had to rise to urinate three times urine clear, but of a very bad smell

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usual. Some dull headache, but mentally clear ; no pain in lung, but have had a sore throat and a good deal of tickling in the pharynx, provoking a cough and enabling me to raise a little phlegm, white and frothy like cotton ball.

" Weakness continued all the day ; did not want to be disturbed. Sought to be quiet; slept a good part of the day, when not attend- ing to my professional duties ; passed a great deal of urine ; foul- smelling, of a pale color, with white sediment ; have not tested it yet.

" Second night very restless ; at night slept well, but full of dreams ;

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in my dream was attending to large numbers of malignant diphtheria cases. Woke many times and slept and dreamed, the same kind of dream ; my cases in my dream did not die, but were greatly worse ; worried about them.

" Awoke at 5 A. m., and after ly- ing awake, wondering what these dreams meant, my thought took this form : Intending me to get ready for an epidemic of diph- theria, and this thought I cannot get myself rid of.

*' August 4, 1892. — Feeling too tired to go into my garden ; busi- ness being very scarce, I have had

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time to sleep, and slept all the fore- noon. Headache not so bad ; sweat

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on the least exertion ; very poor appetite ; bowels move.

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"August 6. — No change in my feelings ; very weak and nervous ; full of anxiety as of impending trouble.

"August 7. — Head clear of pain ; no dreams ; very cross and full of fault-finding ; everything is going wrong.

"August 8, 9, 10. — Feeling simi- lar, but not quite so continuous; feeling some improved.

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'' I have learned from this partial proving that this is a very powerful drug. That it made me very ill for the first two days I am very sure, and filled me with some concern as to whether I should not do some- thing to counteract its effects, but I finally concluded not to do so, but watch and wait.

"I found that it had power to set up a severe headache. At the time I was suffering from one^ but so differing that the new one from the Bacillinum could be easily felt in the parts occipital and frontal.

**The throat was inflamed ; tick- ling, phlegmy, cough from tickling that could not be relieved in any other way.

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"Left lung was irritated and made sore, a creeping, stitch-like feeling passing through from below upwards. A weak feeling in the right lung.

**Bowels inflated with gas, and soft, mushy stool of dark greenish color, passing easily.

"The pain or stitch through my old pile I could not account for, but having felt it as something new I make record of it.

"Some eczema of anus that had given me trouble for some time previous has since been very much better.

"I have had three patients under this, Dr. Burnett's Bacillinum, one dose of 30th in eight days.

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"The cases are too new to report as yet, but all are improving.

"This will cure some cases of laryngeal phthisis, diphtheria and phthisis pul., and be a great aid to us in curing what this learned phy- sician calls consumptiveness. I for one have adopted this name and this remedy.

"It seems as if I were learning to be a Homoeopathic physician, never having had much, if any, faith in the high dilution.

In the Homoeopathic Recorder (pp. 263, etseq.) the following very interesting paper on Bacillin is found:

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** BACILLINUM : ITS CURATIVE POWER ON DIFFERENT DISEASES.

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went to Herisau, Canton d'Appen- zell. There I had occasion enough to distribute amongst my friends the wonderful effect of Bacillinum, amidst the great opposition of the doctors, who laugh and snarl at the idea of such a treatment as something completely new in prac- tice. Since sixteen months many very remarkable cures have been performed, even several known as incurable, so that from east to west, all through Switzerland, Bacilli- num has found an entrance. In a journal treating on ' General Con- ductiveness,' I asserted that the principal cause of idiotism and cretinism are tubercles in and around the brain, and the only

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"Allow me to send you here a few but very interesting cases where Bacillinum has shown highly its curative power.

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"2. A Miss E., of 27 years, having spent the winter of ' 90-91 in the hospital at Basel, being sent home in April, '91, pronounced incurable.

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and after six months was totally cured.

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Examination proved the whole upper part of the lungs covered by tubercles. Bacillinum cured him perfectly in two months.

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perfectly normal, and with the exception of the curve on her back and the sore hand she is as well as. she had been in her younger days.

^'This lady had been pronounced incurable, and the people of Lichten- steig, with their doctors, are en- chanted over such a cure. Bacil- linum has done its work perfectly, and many such so-called incurable cases would yield under the blessed influence of this wonderful medi- cine.

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ing of rheumatism, but more espe- cially a stiffness and redness in her arms, hands, legs, and feet, which resulted slowly into arthri- tical, gouty contractions of the joints of fingers, toes, even on the knees, so as to become unable to shut the hands, and walking only with great difficulty. She received Bacillinum in the above^ttamed order, and in less than three months all her stiffness was re- moved, and she is now very well. Here it was evident that Bacilli- num absorbed the chalky substance in the joints.

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telephone to go to a place near Neuchatel, about 150 miles from Herisau, and found there a loyear- old girl, a perfect idiot and cretin. The history of the child was about this: Until after vaccination (she was i^ years old), was very well ; from that time she began to act as having no sense, growing worse from months to years Her parents consulted in different cities, as London, Paris and Vienna, with- out the slightest amelioration. They heard of me from a doctor of Basel, that I had attended there a 16-year-old idiot, whose reason re- turned partially. I found the girl in the following condition : height two feet and £ve inches ; age, 10

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years; the teeth hidden in the gums : could hardly stand on her feet, unable to walk and talk; head, front narrow and large on the back ; several smaller and larger eleva- tions on the skull, some soft, others hard ; nose, eyelids and lips ex- tremely large; type of an idiot and cretin.

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"John Young, M.D., ^^ formerly of Brooklyn^ N. V.

^^ Forsthaus^Herisau^ Switzerland?'^

Beyond any question we have here many points brought forward by Dr. John Young, of very com-

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"bacilunum : itscurativk power in different diseases.

^' Case I. — Another case of lame- ness, in which Bacillinum has shown its decided power to subdue and destroy the hindrance of growth and harmony in the whole body :

"Was called to examine a youth of about 18 years, in a city 20 miles distant from my residence. It was

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ankles, and also on the wrists, of the size of small nuts, tender to the touch. Studying the case very carefully, I came to the conclusion that those knots were colonies of tubercles, hindering the activity of the joints and deadening the feel- ing.

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ment of the glands of the neck and under the ears. Under the effects of Bacillinum this condition was alleviated, some of the enlarge- ments opening and discharging a thick matter and afterwards heal- ing.

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the belly and stomach pressed out, very large and hard, especially the lower part ; skin of the face deep yellowish, and of the body brown- ish color ; the front part of the head narrow, pointed out, while the back part was very large and rather square. No appetite ; no sleep ; and more or less diarrhoea of putrid, strong-smelling excrement. As several quite eminent physicians (Allopaths) from different places had attended her, but without avail, the child getting from time to time weaker, unable to stand on her thin legs, I hesitated at undertaking the treatment of such a forlorn and apparently hopeless case. But the clamor of the distressed mother

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mind concerning the possibility of the curative power of Bacilltnum on rachitis, and strengthens my asser- tion that in many so-called incura- ble diseases the main causes are parasites of a peculiar nature.

" Forsthaus^ Hertsau^ Switzer- land^ Dec, lothy i8g2,

*7oHN Young, M. D.

''^Formerly 260 Rodney Street^ Brooklyn, N. K"

In the May (1893) issue of the Recorder I read with much interest the following further cummunica- tion from Dr. Boocock:

^^BACILLINUM OR TUBERCUUNUM.

"Having become convinced by a partial proving on myself of the wonderful power of this new remedy

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it was a nice case on which to try the new remedy, so I gave her one powder of Bacilltnum 30th, ten globules, and a bottle of Aqua d. and Glycerine as a placebo, one teaspoonful three or four times daily or when her cough troubled her ; and seeing her every three or four days, so that I might watch her carefully (for we have to give something in order to win their confidence). To my joy, she at once began to improve; appetite returned, night sweats ceased, cough was relieved, and so cure was completed in less than two months. She received sixty glob- ules of 30th.

" Case 2. — A car driver's wife.

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lost twenty-nine ponnds in three months previous to ray taking her in hand. Now she said, * I believe

"Case 4 — Mrs. M., aet. 41.

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Knowing that she is of a consump- tive family, having attended her sister when in the last stage of con- sumption, while she was visiting at this lady's house, I was anxious about her, and upon inquiry, found that she was weakly ; cold legs, a feeling as if she had on wet stock- ings ; hands and feet hot at times, with clammy sweat; some night sweat, but no cough, only when she took a cold, and then it hung on in spite of anything she took. I gave her two powders oi Bacillinum 30th ten days apart, but she got rid of all her bad feelings, so that both she and her husband thought there was no need of going through the three months' course I had asked for.

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" And now I could tell you of a good many of my dispensary patients, of what is called consump- tive build. Flat chested or narrow chests ; hard to recover from colds, poorly nourished, low vitality, sweat easily and at nights, but who have no soreness in the lungs ; some with sore throats, tonsillitis and haemorrhoids, bleeding freely from the least injuries, to whom, by way of experiment, I have given Bacillznum 30th, in my office, and a bottle of placebo, who have been promptly cured of all their com- plaints with the one prescription. From these cases I learn that this remedy is many-sided and is a good thing to give where there are no

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symptoms strong or clear enough to be named, only a general feeling of illness.

" Robert Boocock, M. D.

'' Flatbush, L. /."

"a case of tuberculous phthisis

cured mainly by tuberculinum

(heath) .*

* a case presented to the Society, February 2, 1893.

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one of his chief troubles.

A I

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" On November 9th, as he still complained of the weight in the chest, he was g^ven Tuberculinunt (Heath) 100, gt. iii., on the tongue, and this was repeated the following week.

" By November 20th he had gained one and a quarter pounds in weight; the sensation of weight in the chest was better ; there was very little cough, no expectoration, no night sweats, but he was troubled a good deal with flatulence. Tubercu- linum was repeated on the 30th, and again on December loth ; by this time he had gained another pound and a half in weight.

^^ December 19th.— He complains of pains in the joints without swell-

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ing ; there is a return of the sweats and cough, with frothy white sputum. Under Merc, vivus 12 the rheumatic symptoms perfectly subsided.

" Tuberculinum was repeated on January 4th and 25th.

" [The T^^^r^/^/^/^;;^ used in this

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The very latest testimony anent the clinical value of Bacillinum I find in the ** Homoeopathic World " of November i, 1893. It comes from New Zealand, and runs thus :

" BACII.UNUM CASES.

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" Case I. — I had prescribed for some time for an elderly lady suf-

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" Case 3. — A third case was that

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^* In the first case no other medi- cine was used. But it is only right to add, that in both of the bowel cases I gave in addition Calc. carb. 30 mj. t.d.s.

"But now, in conclusion, I want to make another statement of an opposite kind, and that is, I have

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given Bacillinum^ both in the thirtieth and two-hundredth, in that fell disease of infancy and child- hood — I refer to acute tubercular

meningitis — ^but with one result, viz., death. Of course, my cases were indubitable specimens of the disease ; there could be no manner of doubt about the diagnosis.

"William Lamb, M.B., CM.,

'^40 High Street^ Dunedin^ ^^ August 12^ /^9J."

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herein recommended, and he replies as follows :

"jo Clarges Street^ ^^ London J W.

" I began to use Bacillin, and at the same time I proved it on my- self, taking (on December 20, 1890) just the thirtieth, and afterwards the one-hundredth potency. The chief symptoms I experienced were the following :

"2. Pain deep in head, worse on shaking the head.

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was felt at the roots, especially on raising the lower lip; the symptoms persisted many months, and I occa- sionally feel it now. Teeth very sensitive to cold air.

^^4. Sharp pains of short duration in chest and various parts of body.

"5, Pain in left knee whilst walking one evening; passed oflF after persevering in walking for a short distance.

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lying down in bed at night, relieved by warmth.

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* 'After a severe attack of scarla- tina six months before, these symp- toms developed, and the progress of the case had been so rapid that two allopathic medical men had pro- nounced her case hopeless. She had had her farewell photograph taken; everybody (including the small patient herself) was waiting the end with sufficient resigna- tion, when I happened to be consulted somewhat incidentally. Under Iodide of arsenic^ to the astonishment of all, there was

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decided improvement. The fetor of the breath ' with every cough ' disappeared under Capsicum; but much more markedly when I gave it high (i m.) than when given low.

" I saw her first in May, 1888. She gained steadily, put on flesh, grew strong and ruddy, and in a few months was able to go to school.

" But though the lung dulness cleared up (leaving, however, evi- dence of a cavity at the right apex) , and the cough left her, the breath- ing remained short and noisy. Creaking sounds were heard all over on auscultating, and she re- quired treatment from time to time.

"On January 8, 1891, there was

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wheezing respiration ; rattling on chest; cough in morning. Other- wise she was well.

" Badl. 100, two globules.

"January 12. — Wheezing much less.

"January 20. — Very much less wheezing.

" For the next week she had much heat, with perspiration at night. The wheezing still con- tinued less marked; but the chest was a little tight, and she got up a little phlegm in the morning.

"January 27. — Bacil. 100, gib. ii.

" February 5. — Keeping very well.

" February 19. — No wheezing since.

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^^ Baal. 30, four globules in a powder; four powders, one to be taken each week.

" October 19. — Keeping much better.

'^ She is now, I understand,

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growing into a strong, hearty girl.

" The mother of this child was also in consumption at the same time, and the father, although muscularly strong, suflFers from disease of the heart.

" I will now describe the mother's case, although it can hardly be said to illustrate the successful use of Bacillin.

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Afterwards he had commencing Pott's disease of the spine, which was checked by ordinary homoe- opathic remedies — Silica and Sul- phur chiefly.

''Case 4. — This eczematous con- dition of eyelids calls to mind an- other case in a boy of 12, who had

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had eczema capitis severely as an infant, healed up by local applica- tions, but not perfectly, the right eyelid being left eczematous ; the eczema spreading to the face when specially active. One direct conse- quence of the local method of treat- ment was facial paralysis, which came on when the eruption disap- peared under the ointments, and has left the boy disfigured for life. The condition of the eye had been ameliorated by several remedies, but nothing acted so promptly or so satisfactorily as Bacillin^ given at rare intervals.

^^Case 5. — My coachman, a young man of about 30, also suf- fered from redness of the eyelid

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" She had been affected with lupus for ten years, the affection having begun in the eye, the right being the worst. It then invaded the right cheek, and finally the

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The right wing of the nose was ulcerated and scabbed. The face is much disfigured.

" BaciL 200 every ten days.

" July 24. — Marked improve- ment in nose.

''On September i, she reported

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(having left England) that there was much improvement.

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and sent her last report on April 30, 1892. I have heard of her since as having kept well.

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in a similar insidious way, her friends became somewhat anxious, and, to some extent, so did I.

"I gave her one dose of Bacillin icx), four globules on the tongue.

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Bacillin till a month after the first dose. This time it produced no aggravation, and was again fol- lowed by general improvement,

" In view of her family history, I gave on June 27, 1893, Bacillin 100, four globules on the tongue.

"July 4. — Hearing 3 inches off contact.

"July 13. — 2^2 inches. Repeat dose.

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^'July 20. — Hears 5 inches.

"July 31. — Hears 18 inches.

" This was the last dose I gave her.

" On August 9, she heard 19 inches.

" On October 24, the hearing was practically normal ; she heard 25 inches away.

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" Shortly before he left, I put on his tongue a few globules of Koch^s Tuberculin 200 (F. C).

" He experienced the greatest re- lief from this dose, and in a few days returned to his work, exceed- ingly pleased with himself. I

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begged him to come again as out- patient, and lie promised to do so, but failed to keep his promise. No doubt he was unable to get away from his work, and too well to risk losing it.

"Case lo.^A well-known /rm^ donna had a severe attack of in- fluenza last spring, the form taken being that of bronchitis. Two winters before she had had peri- tonitis from the same cause, and before that, right-sided pneumonia, following immediately upon an * orificial ' operation in the United States. When I first saw her there was incessant cough ; rales all over the chest ; pains in the chest, right side chiefly ; and dul-

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Many cases of indurated glands have been cured by Bacillin in my hands ; also cases of ringworm. One of the latter cases I will now mention.

"Case II. — Master C , aged

8, returned from school in Decem- ber, 1 89 1, with ringworm pretty well covering face, scalp and neck. There is a strong scrofulous taint

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" On April 3d he was brought to me again that I might sign a certificate of health, as he had a

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" I again put him on Bacilltn 30.

" On the 1 8th the dose was re- peated, as the spot was still visi- ble.

*' On the 27th the head was per- fectly clear ^ and I was able to give him a clean bill of health.

" I will bring my long story to a close (though it is not by any means the whole of it) by narrating a case that has already seen the

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light of print — Homoeopathtc Worlds April, 1893.*

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" About the end of August he again began to get worse, and steadily lost ground until the time

New Cure of Consumption. 305

of his admission. For over a year he had suflFered from indiges- tion, a catching or shooting pain from the right mamma to the left shoulder, with a feeling of a lump at the root of the neck.

" Physical examination showed that there was consolidation of upper part of right lung with forma- tion of a cavity, with slight indica- tion of the left apex also being affected. The heart and other or- gans were normal.

3o6 Eighi Years* Experience in the

New Cure of ConstCmption. 307

3o8 Etg'A/ Year^ Fxpertence in the

*' On the 30th of November an- other dose of Tuber c, was given, and again on the loth and lyth of December.

New Cure of Consumption. 309

3IO Eight Year^ Experience in the

**The patient left the hospital.

New Cure of Consumption, 311

Although other remedies were given, I am inclined to give the chief share of the credit of this cure to Tuberculinum^ for the first marked change for the better took place whilst under its influence. I have never given this remedy in more frequent doses than one a week ; and I have never found that

312 Eight Years Experience in the

it interfered with its action to g^ve intercurrent doses of other remedies that might seem indicated by the symptoms.

"I will only add to the above record that I have not found any- thing to antidote the effects of Bacillin^ and that I have often given remedies to patients under the influence of it without, appar- ently, any interference in the action of either ; and further, I have not

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been able to discover any difference in the action of Bacillin made by Dr. Heath and Koch's Tuberculin in homoeopathic attenuation ; and I should judge that the patho- genesis of Koch's Tuberculin col- lected by me in the ^ Homoeopathic World,' vol. xxvi., 1891, would be applicable as indications for the use of either.

INDKX.

Acetum lobeliae, 53, 78.

Aconite, 37, 46, 48.

Acute phthisis, 203.

Ameke, Dr., of Berlin, 15.

Ant. tart., 84.

Arbor vitae, 30.

Argentum nit., 95, 170.

Ars. iod., 306.

Arsenicum, 60, 64.

Atrophy, incipient general, 173.

Bacillic virus (C), 19, 53, 55, 58. 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 70, 72, 73, 77, 78, 79, 80, 82, 83. 85, 87, 91, 92, 93, 94. 95» 98, 100, loi, 102, 104, 105, 106, 108, 109, no, III, 112, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 124, 125.

Bacillinum cases from New Zealand, 268.

Bacillinum, the remedy, 138.

Bacillinum, where to get it, 138.

3i6 Index.

Baptisia, 37, 85.

Bellis perennis, 33. 82, 105, 181.

Bones, soft, and nocturnal restlessness, 86.

Boocock, Dr., proving by, 217, 256, 267.

Bowels, consumption of, 276.

Brain, tuberculosis of the, 44.

Bright' s disease, 293.

Bronchitis, 310.

Bryonia, 83, 105.

Calc. carb., 48, 88.

Calc. hypophos., 35.

Calc. phos., 37, 66, 67, 70, 83, 89, 156,

175- Calc. sul., 83.

Cancerous diathesis, 201.

Cancer of the liver, 15.

Carduus Marise, 35, 93, 94.

Capsicum, 282.

Cases reported, 21, 25, 26, 28, 29, 32, 34, 38, 41, 42, 44, 50, 53, 55, 57, 59. 60, 61, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 71, 75, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92, 94, 96, 97, 99, 100, lOI,

Index, 317

103, 106, 107, 108, 109, no, 115,

27» 30» 36, 39» 62, 119. See also

Bacillic virus, Consumptiveness, cases of, 43, 53, 144,

147, 148, 153.

Consumptiveness, pelvic, 184.

Cough with chronic pulmonary catarrh,

172.

3i8 Index.

Cretinism, 238.

Critics, 196.

Curative powers in different diseases, 228 ,

243- Cynosbati, 180.

Deadly smell, 249.

Deafness, 296.

Deformed head, 240.

Diarrhcea, chronic, 66, 67, 254.

Dyspepsia, pre-phthisical, 169.

Dispensary patients, 266.

Eczema, 21, 289.

Effects of virus on author, 16.

Elaterium, 66.

Eye, tuberculous affection of the, 86.

Facial paralysis, 289.

Feet swollen, 293.

Ferrum, 93.

Fer. acet., 37, 40.

Feverish attacks pointing to tuberculosis,

85. Fistula and its radical cure by medicines,

19.

Index, 319

Fistular anaemia and consumptiveness,

43. Fragaria vesca, 37.

Glonoin, 48, 53.

Galloping consumption, 247.

Grippe, 262.

Haemorrhage from the bowels, 80.

Haemorrhoids in the phthisically dis- posed, 166.

Hepar sul., 33, 43, 180.

Hepatisation of left lung, 187.

Hip-joint disease, 107.

Hydrastis Canadensis, 43, 64, 74, 75, 85, 186.

Hydrocephalus, 21.

Hypophosphites, 83.

Hydrocephalism, case of twenty years' standing, 176.

Idiotism, 238.

Ignatia amara, 105.

Intestines, tubercular ulceration of, 274.

lodium, 37, 52, 66, 83, 95.

lodoformum, 37, 58.

320 Index.

Iris versicolor, 76.

Kali carb., 43.

Knee, tuberculous affection of the, 61,

Natrum sulph., 157. Nux vomica, 33, 43, 73.

Pancreatin, 37. I

PartllL, 197. Perlarum mater, 107.

Ltdex. 321

47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 59. See also

Bacillic virus, Phytolacca, 153. Piles, 166.

QuerQus, 93.

Rachitis, 253.

Remedy in the disease, the, 128.

Restlessness, nocturnal, 163.

Rheumatism, 238, 285.

Ringworm, 161.

Ringworm cured by bacillic virus, 113,

322 Index.

Sabina, 60.

Scalp, with many scabs, 87.

Scarlet fever, 234, 281.

Scilla maritima, 37, 83, loi.

Second edition, 126.

Sepia, 33.

Silicea, 43.

Skin, diseases of the, from the organismic standpoint, 21.

Spiritus glandium quercus, 37, 56.

Spinal curvature, 235.

Spleen, 200.

Sputal tuberculinum, 134.

Stomach case, 232.

Strumous glands, 191.

Syphilitic case, 231.

Syphilitic taint, 201.

Tabes mesenterica, 189.

Teeth, discoloration of, 163.

Teeth, influence of the virus upon, no, 112, 163.

Terebinth, 84.

Thuja occidentalis, 33, 35, 47, 52, 60, 65,

66, 70, 73, 85, 88, 93, 105, 153, 180,

186.

Index. 323

Urtica urens, 158.

Vaccinosis, latent, 21, 47, 149, 155, 200. Virus of consumption, 14, 16, 18, 19,

25» 27, 30, 36, 38, 62, 119. See also

Bacillic virus.

UNIV. OF MICHiGA.^rf

DEC 19 1912