This is the case of Mrs. M., age 24, dark complexion, small in stature; mother of one child and one of a family of twelve children, all of which are dead except two (herself and sister) from tubercular disease. I was called to treat her for a rectal trouble, a fissure in the rectum extending to the edge of anus. So severe was her suffering that I was compelled to operate or lose the case, as she had no faith in homoeopathy. I did so, but on the sixth day a little tit-like process came down close by where the fissure opened externally.
New symptoms developed, quite generally, which were as follows: Hot burning hand, and feet, wants window open, wants fresh air, can't bear any covering over her, although quite often she will have hot waterbags about her; weak hungry feelings between meals. all her symptoms worse in the evening. tosses about the bed all night and cannot sleep as she is too warm, then falls asleep near morning and rests well most of the forenoon. she is cross, irritable, scolds and finds fault. Skin dry, harsh, red, itching, pimples on different parts of the body.
PRESCRIPTION
Sulphur - 50M, was given, and within forty-eight hours all the above grouping of symptoms began to disappear,
APPEARANCE OF NEW SYMPTOMATOLOGY
in their place came a profuse greenish yellow leucorrhoea, excoriating and acrid in its nature, biting and burning the pudendum. the rectum began to heal rapidly and was soon well, after which the leucorrhoea disappeared,
while I was treating this case her husband was taken down with acute rheumatism which followed a severe wetting he had received, having been exposed to a drenching rain for several hours. this of course, only strengthened my diagnosis of acquired gonorrhoeal sycosis by her husband and that my patient had also contracted the disease from him and later on suppressed the disease, thus the rectal trouble as a result.
this case was cured with Sulphur - C.M. although the operative procedure was condemned as a wrong thing to do.
CONCLUSION
Physician should always pay attention to the basic miasmatic background of the case, foaming symptoms is nothing but produce confusion to prescribe correct medicine.
A case by
Dr. Johan Henry Allen
