iJJllUJUU NLM 05110135 D NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE § SURGEON GENERAL'S OFFICE LIBRARY. 4n, L^U- Sectidn, \^djLY- Ab. ^& ■\i-- NLM051101350 ii E.A,MULTS,M.D PiKTH AMiOY, N. J. ■ i a. 3, THE New Cure of BY ITS OWN VIRUS. ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS CASES. J. COMPTON BURNETT, M.D. Second Edition, REVISED AND ENLARGED. 1 Ubi morbus ibi reniedium" PHILADELPHIA : BOERICKE & TAFEL. i S-9-a* LIBRARY SUR6E0N GENERAL'S OFFICE DEC.-20.-1D00 Copyrighted, 1891, By Boericke & Tafel. 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 rem- edy lauded to the skies ; now the reaction IV Preface. has set in. Koch modestly declined the 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? Almost 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 ... re- main !—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 effi- cacy 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 Preface. v the Medical Derby of the world, and 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 con- firmed the views therein set forth. J. COMPTON BURNETT. 2 Finsiujry Circus, London. November 14, 1891. PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION. For a number of years, notably during the past decade, the medical branch of the scientific world have been intently occupied 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- with to cure consumption itself. But Vlll Preface. 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 opposition and ridicule have acted as an incentive 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 accumulating, and was intended to form part of a greater work on the general Preface. ix 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 homceopathically 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 between our old friend Tuberculinum (which I have ventured to call Bacillinum, as the bacilli were proved to be in my preparation* by an expert in practical bacteriology). I say the difference between our old friend TuberculinuYn or Bacillinum and that of Koch lies in the way it is obtained; ours is the virus of 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 ::" Very kindly made for me by Dr Heath. x Preface. the chick hatched under the hen, Koch's is the chick hatched in an incubator. The artificial hatching is Koch's dis- covery, not the remedy itself or its use as a cure for consumption. 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, i.e., the mode of adminis- tering it to the patient; I use the remedy 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 Dr Koch's dosage and mode of administration should give better results than we have obtained, then Koch's method will have to be adopted. But my present opinion tends Preface. xi to the opposite conclusion. Still we will leave that till Koch's method has been properly tried. Meanwhile, 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 labours and their results are all his own, and we shall all of us honour 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 honour, and to us ridicule, misrepresenta- tion, and hateful slander, still we pray that we may never be weary in well- doing. J. COMPTON BURNETT. 2 Finsbury Circus, E.C., November 21, 1890. FIVE YEARS' EXPERIENCE IN THE NEW CURE OF CONSUMPTION TT would be over fifteen years T since I first occupied myself with the question of the therapeu- tical use of the viruses of certain diseases ap-ainst 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 different, and differing, 14 Five Years' Experience in the 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 reviewing a work while I was still editing the " Homoeopathic World." New Cure of Consumption. 15 It made a lasting impression on my mind. The late Dr Ameke's (of Berlin) startling paper on the use 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 wonderfully curative effects oiChole- steariu in cancer of the liver, and which I have noted for publication.* But consumption is the ever- present enemy, and I presently formulated to my mind the proposi- ;|< See my " Greater Diseases of the Liver." Boericke & Tafel, New York. 1891. 16 Five Years' Experience in the 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 1'1'on Myself. One effect 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 the headache from the thirtieth was much worse than from the hundredth. The kind of headache I could only describe as far in, and compelling quiet fixedness. The New Cure of Consumption. i j 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 occasions, 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 2 18 Five Years' Experience in the 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 recognise 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. 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, because New Ctire of Consumption. 19 the virus was not always given by itself. In the cases which I shall now cite the virus was almost invari- ably given absolutely by itself. When I say that the virus was given by itself, I do not necessarily mean that the case was treated with that as the only remedy used before or after, but that at the time it was given it was so given alone, and its action carefully noted. 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 wilder- ness is a symbolic similitude ; " take a hair of the dog that bit you " almost formulates a doctrine. The homoeopathic conception can hardly be separated from the idea of curing the disease by a bit of itself, for the 20 Five Years' Experience in the simple reason, that if you alter some- what 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 whatso- ever other part. 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 :— New Cure of Consumption. 21 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 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 22 Five Years' Experience in the had eczema, and had been twice ^successfully vaccinated. After the ^successful 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 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 New Cure of Consumption. 23 fact that I had not named the remedies which cured the boy, and called upon me to make them known. Well, the remedy of the case was the poison of consumption ; after taking this in a high potency and infre- quently, the head went smaller ; the delirium ceased, as did also the noc- turnal hallucinations 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 24 Five dears' Experience in the 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. 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, quivering 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- Arew Cure of Consumption. 25 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- spiration, and awoke in the morning greatly improved, and very soon completely recovered, and is now 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," high fever, restlessness, and constant screaming. I had seen him from his first ailing, and prescribed our 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 26 Five Years' Experience in the any mischief, although there had been no sleep for some forty hours, but when called in the night I was greatly alarmed at the child's fallen- 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 remark- able a result, as it looks so strangely improbable.....Patient fell New Cure of Consumption. 2 J asleep within ten minutes, and ut- 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 this year, 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 28 Five Years' Experience in the 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 brilliancy. 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 had very large tonsils, chronic run- ning from the nose, worse in the Nezv Cure of Consumption. 29 early morning on rising ; her speech was thick ; her thorax, the so-called pigeon-breast; she menstruated free- ly ; 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. Distinct dulness on percussion at the apex of the right lung. As patient had suffered badly from vaccination, I ordered my favourite arbor vita:. 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 here administered; the thirtieth at twelve days interval, and after one month of this the perspirations had greatly diminished; after two 30 Five Years' Experience in the months the dulness 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 person —just a wee bit stout, perhaps. Patient had altogether forty-eight globules of the virus, of the thirtieth potency, spread over four months. Case VI. It is nearly four years since, the exact date being February 25, 1887, that a married lady, then A7ew Cure of Consumption. 31 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 suffered from leucorrhcea a good deal, and from couoris. As she had had three sisters die successively of consump- tion (at 28, 32, and 40 years of age respectively), her husband was much concerned about her future. Con- sidering 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 mis- givings myself. She had from me in succession, and with very striking 32 Five Years' Experience in the benefit, the following remedies in the order named, Thuja 30, Pulsa- tilla 3X, Bellis perennis 3", Sepia 12, Hepar sul. 6, Thuja 30 (a second time), and Nux vomica 3X. 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, and exacerbating at bedtime and on rising, and patient was very thin. I then determined to try the phthisic virus. After being under it for a month she did not trouble to report herself till March 15, 1889, and then she only cairie because she had a cold, and therewith some cough again. She had been so well all the winter that she considered New Cure of Consumption. 33 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, 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 all 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 3 34 Five Years' Experience in the accompanied her to me. Having used Thuja (the poor thing had been vaccinated four times, the last three unsuccessfully), Calc. Hypo- phos., and Cardius Mariez, with decidedly good results, I felt en- couraged, and thought it almost possible yet to save her if we could 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 years 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 New Cure of Consumption. 3 5 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 case is unique in my experience. The phthisic virus cured the phthisis so far as I could tell. I used a good many remedies then to meet the varying symptoms with, at times, very good effects, but the effects did not last. To give some idea how persistently I treated her, I will name the remedies she had from me,—Fragaria vesca 0, Cheli- donium majus 0, Ceanothus Ameri- canus 1, Scilla maritivia 0, Iodium 3X, Aconite, Sanguisuga off., Baptisia 3X, Pyrogenium 5, Calc. Phos., Rubia tinctoria, Per. acet. Cholestearin, 36 Five Years' Experience in the Arsenicum, Phos., Iodoform 3X, Pancreatin, and Spirit, glandium quercus. Still in the end I failed, and she died of hepatic dropsy, due 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 MIL I will now briefly narrate the successful case through which Case ML came under my observation :— Nezv Cure of Consumption. 37 The patient was 17 years of age, and her sister had just died of consumption of the lungs. Patient was very anaemic, sickish, pale almost to whiteness, profound debility, dyspnoea, cannot mount or hurry, menses very irregular. " 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 determined me to use the virus 30. This was on the 4th of October; on the 1st 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 got quite well of all the consumptive 38 Five Years' Experience in the symptoms, but remained neuralgic and anaemic; but these ailings having been righted by Mangan. acet. 1, Zincum acet. 1, Per. acet. 1, 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 remedies, I would specially insist upon the fact that the phthisic virus only acts within its own sphere, and that this sphere is very sharply defined as to time, and what it does not do soon* and promptly * Second Edition : When I say soon, I mean that its action begins at once—only, of New Cure of Consumption. 39 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 bronchitis. Since I last saw you I have had but very little bronchitis. I look well, and people tell me I course, as phthisic processes are generally chronic, the treatment thereof must also be the same, i.e., chronic. 40 Five Years' Experience in the 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 rather say, for fistular anaemia and " consumptiveness," for the con- sumption was not declared, though the experienced eye was not to be New Cure of Consumption. 41 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 born. I treated him with much success with Kali carb. 30, Nux vomica 1, Hepar sul. 3, Silicea 6, and Hy- drastis canadensis 0, with two inter- current courses of, each one month of the phthisic virus, and in seven months—end of 1888—discharged 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 XL The following case is striking. 42 Five Years' Experience in the 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 tuber- culosis 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 symptoms. He is fretty and ailing, whines, and complains, feelably in- 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 New Cure of Consumption. 43 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 parents tried to believe the welcome prognosis, but could not, and went home in terrible distress of mind. I began with Aconite and Chamo- milla 30. April 30th.—Better a good deal; sleeps very well; less drowsy, urine better. Pulsatilla 1 was then given. May 14th.—Urine normal; no 44 Five Years' Experience in the 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 recognised that the stop-spot of such remedies as Aconite, Chamo- milla, and Pulsatilla was a long way on the hither side of a cure. Said I to myself, .... This sort of remedy only goes up to the tubercle, 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 New Cure of Consumption. 45 the more recent, and planted upon the tuberculosis, the vaccinosis would have first to be cured. Thuja 30. July 11th.—Was better, but yesterday was at a flower show, and he now screams a good deal. R Glonoin 2 and Aconite 2. 18th.—He has got over this attack, and the glands are a trifle less. He now sleeps badly again. The previously administered one-hun- dredth (centesimal) of the phthisic virus not having acted as well as I anticipated, I came down to very infrequent doses of the thirtieth. August 22nd.—Appetite better ; nights good ; not drowsy by day; urine red and brick-dusty a week ago ; is still mum and fretty; he is 46 Five Years' Experience in the 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 screams dreadfully in his sleep. I then put patient again steadily upon the virus alone as our only chance, and the patient was discharged cured on January 7, 1889. At the end of the year I received this letter:— " 4th 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 happen that he is not so well.....I shall fly off to you," etc. New Cure of Consumption. 47 Since then I have heard nothing, and so conclude that the cure is permanent. 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 had only been taken just in time ; a little later and the phthisic virus (at any rate in my homceopathically prepared infinitesi- mal quantities) would have been unavailing. Case XII. A little girl of 6 years of age, 48 Five Years' Experience in the daughter of a country squire, being under almost ideally perfect hygienic surroundings, her father, however, suffering from chronic pulmonary consumption, fell ill in the spring of 1888. There was fever, wasting, abdominal pains and discomfort, and restless nights. The glands of both groins and on both sides of the neck enlarged and indurated, some were visible on simple adspection. Except that she had been vaccin- ated 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 27th I find noted in New Cure of Consumption. 49 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 2nd.—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, I thought it was wise to repeat the virus, as on August 27th, 1888, and this set her right, and after three months she 50 Five Years Experience in the 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 Iodium 3X, and Glonoin 3", with seemingly com- plete success, and therefore I did not need to have recourse to the bacillic virus. Case XIII. There are certain cases of what may, perhaps, be termed Consump- tiveness, but where the patients, through being fed largely and richly, manage to get stout, even very fat, and who yet are distinctly afflicted with the tuberculous taint, and who in the end get diabetes, or go into New Cure of Consumption. 51 common consumption. Such a one was a very big, stout, provincial gentleman, of bright, florid com- plexion, who came under my pro- fessional 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 observed, his mother of con- sumption, he regarded his own outlook with reasonable apprehen- siveness. He perspired very pro- fusely, drank huge quantities of fluids, some of them alcoholic, and had wretched, sleepless nights, with 52 Five Years' Experience in the almost constant fever. The glands of his neck were very much enlarged. He was three months under the bacillic virus, and was then a very different man ; he now sleeps well ; the glands are well {i.e., cannot be felt) ; the temperature is now nor- mal ; 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 merely note it shortly. There was a similar unhealthy parentage, the same liability to pneumonia, the same watery hugeness of body, the same sort of cough and wet phlegm- iness, the same excessive perspira- New Cure of Consumption. 53 tions and thirst, and restless nights. But no fever as a rule. The treatment was mixed; the bacillic virus had not the same decided effect, but under it he went smaller in bulk, but did not lose weight, 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 lobelice greatly aided in his cure. When I lately saw him, and passed 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 54 Five Years' Experience in 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 rales 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 neck ; a very pronounced endo- cardial bruit, best heard at the apex beat; and the before-mentioned hectic flush. July i 2th.—Trit. 3X Iodoformum 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. Nezu Cure of Consumption. 55 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 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. 56 Five Years' Experience in the 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 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, Nciv Cure of Consumption. 5 7 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 lad)- of 56 years of age came to me, with what I considered tubercular 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, 58 Five Years' Experience in the and "able to walk slowly without stick for an hour and a half ata time." She is quite well now. Case XVIII. A boy of 8 years of age, whose mother is in consumption, and of whose ancestors quite a number have died of consumption, was brought to me on September 6, 1889, for these symptoms: nocturnal perspirations ; (notched incisors) ; indurated glands everywhere very large and very numerous; drum- bellied ; grinds his teeth in the night; great susceptibility 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. New Cure of Consumption. 59 Two months of the virus (C.) cured all these, and he is now well and thriving. 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; con- stipation, and a brown cutaneous 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. 60 Five Years' Experience in the He is altogether a different man. He had subsequently Thuja for his vaccinosis, and then Hydrastis canadensis e 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 New Cure of Consumption. 61 consumption. She had miscarried three times, and was dying piece- meal of excessive menstruation, and had become alarmingly emaciated. She had the virus (C), and this was followed by Chelidonium majus o and Thuja 30, and she was dis- charged cured at Christmas 1889. She is now well and in good condition. Case XXL 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; irritableand restless. She had the virus for two months followed by Cole. phos. 3X, and was discharged cured on May 14, 1890. 62 Five Years' Experience in the Case XXII. The baby brother of the foregoing was brought on September 11,1889. in an emaciated state, suffering from chronic diarrhcea,and evidently with- out the intervention of medical art not long for this world. In my case- notes he is described as " all glands," i.e., the cervical and inguinal glands feelably indurated and visible. Withoutdoubthis mesenteric glands were the seat of the same consump- tive process and the real cause of the diarrhoea. He had Elaterium 3 (the motions went off "pop"). Iodium 2 and Thuja 30, when he was considerably better, but still had the diarrhoea and excessive perspirations. After a month of the bacillic virus, however, his mother New Cure of Consumption. 63 reported "Very much better; no diarrhoea ; no perspiration ; we con- sider him quite well." I o-ave him, however, two months of Calc. Phos. 3X. He was reported well on Feb. 24, 1890, and he is now a thriv- ing 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 terrible pain in his head, almost absolute 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 64 Five Years' Experience in the he used to have blood-spitting for years, and after much good treat- ment and foreign travel he " grew out" of his pulmonary consumption. 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 sensation of damp clothes on his spine. It sounds hardly credible, but in 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 New Cure of Consumption. 6 month, and then he needed no further treatment. He continues, I believe, in good health, and is hard at work finishing a forthcoming publication. Case XXIV. An anxiousyoung motherbrought her fifteen months' old baby boy to me at the beginning of October 1889. He was dark, sullen, taciturn, black-eyed, and fattish (the kind of fat that I regard as hide-bound). He is irritable, costive, screams in his sleep, and he is very restless at night. " His little sister died at 2]/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 66 Five Years' Experience in the 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. 3X, 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. 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, New Cure of Consumption. 6j 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 consumption." As she had had typhoid very badly, so badly that she never quite throve since, although that was eleven years ago, I began with Pyrogenium 5, five drops in water, three times a day. The same principle that guides me in the exhibition of the bacillic virus guided me in my choice of the Pyrogenium. Under the Pyrogenium shegained 3j4 lbs. in weight. I should have mentioned that she had no cough, though the apex of the right lung is solid, and the part 68 Five Years' Experience in the 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. She then had Nux vomica i for her indigestion. She is what the homoeopaths call a nux subject. On Nov. 18th she had gained another 2 lbs. in weight, and scaled 8 st. wyi 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 the bacillic virus (C.) December 4th.—She weighs 8 st. 13 lbs., or 1 y2 lbs. more than last time. The hectic flush is gone. I continued with the virus. New Cure of Consumption. 69 January 1st, 1890.—She weighs 9 st 2 lbs. Is weak, much indi- gestion, worse at 6 p.m. Thuja occid. 30, as I considered the virus had done its work, and 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. 12th.—She weighs 9 st. 9^2 lbs., and is vastly improved. " That medicine tried me a good deal, but I am quite another woman." Hy- drastis 0. March 14th.—She weighs 10 st. but still has dyspepsia, which I think may be from the old typhoid, 70 Five Years' Experience in the and hence ordered Pyrogenium 5 as before. April 8th.—She weighs 10 st. 2 lbs., and is doing well. Case XXVI. A single lady of 26 came to me in November 1889, m tne ^rst stage of consumption; both her sisters 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 wrere but few : just loss of flesh and a greasy, dingy skin. She had two months of the virus followed by Hydrastis canadensis 0, etc., and was discharged cured in the follow- ing May. She is now plump, well-, and thriving, so her brother tells me. New Cure of Consumption. JI Case XXVII. A city merchant, single, 28 years 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 dis- tressed that I began the treatment with Zincum aceticum 3X, five drops in a tablespoonful of water every three hours. This cured the erup- tion, and I then noted that his skin was very dusky; he had long had chronic diarrhoea. Moist rales 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, 72 Five Years' Experience in the but the expectoration was very pro- fuse. He had been formerly oper- ated on for fistula. The bacillic virus continued for two months quite cured him, and he put on some 8 or 10 lbs. in weight. He con- tinues well, and with my approba- tion has now married. 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 glands very much enlarged and New Cure of Consumption. 73 indurated ; strawberry tongue. She was three months under the bacillic virus, the doses at eight days' inter- vals, and got quite well. She con- tinues 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 lobelicz, which did good palliatively, and then on the bacillic virus (C), which did no good whatever, and he 74 Five Years' Experience in the 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 22 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 our usual remedies, and with the bacillic virus, and sent him to places which are supposed to be good for New Cure of Consumption. 75 this malady. He did not suffer, but slowly died ; his life went out, as it were, from utter weariness. I have his photograph before 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, well over 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 se- vere haemorrhage from the bowels, cough, and emaciation. It was the 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 76 Five Years' Experience in the 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 XXXII. 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 attacks of pain in it. He had been to a London hospital, and prepara- tions were being made for an opera- tion. A friend persuaded him to come to me as one known to be New Cure of Consumption. yy 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 he 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 Bellis perennis 0, 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 78 Five Years' Experience in the 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, /odium, Calc. Phos., Calc. Sul., the Hypo- phosphites, Ant. tart., and some others, including 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. New Cure of Consumption. 79 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 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. 80 Five Years' Experience in the Case XXXV. The little son of a distinguished clergyman, 2 \ years old, was brought to me on May 9th, 1889, for feverish attacks that were clearly pointing to tuberculosis, evidenced by the strawr- berry tongue, the indurated glands, and pining state generally. The bacillic virus, followed by Thuja and Baptisia, was followed by perfect recovery, and in three months he was discharged in rude health. Case XXXVI. A babe of 18 months, whose sister 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- New Cure of Consumption. 81 lessness, with pallor and thinness. I knew the family well for years, and thus was quite sure that the child was necessarily born 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 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 symptoms, and then died of the disease, viz., tuberculosis. Case XXXVII. A lady brought her baby boy to 6 82 Five Years' Experience in the 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 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 Nezc Cure of Consumption. 83 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 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 30 was brought to me to- be treated for the form of consumption commonly known as decline. She had a strumous scar in the neck, 84 Five Years' Experience in the 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 record of the case would occupy more space than I can here afford; suffice 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. 9^ lbs. in weight. She continues well now, but her digestion is easily upset. It will be noted that the aggregate increase in weight was 15^2 lbs. Case XXXIX. A married lady, 29 years of age, Nczv Cure of Consumption. 85 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 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 symptomati- cally 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 86 Five Years' Experience in the 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. 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 infective 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. New Cure of Consumption. 87 Case XLI. A girl of 10, daughter of a country squire, was brought to me in March 1887, to be treated for decline. 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. 88 Five Years' Experience in the Case XLII. An unmarried lady, about 30 years of age, was accompanied to me by her 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 had 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 Chelidonium 0, fol- lowing it up with Carduus Maries 6, and this again with Argentum nit. 1. New Cure of Consumption. 89 These remedies did decided good, and were followed by Cimicifuga, Coccus cacti, Thuja, and Iodine, but notwithstanding bit-by-bit ameliora- tions, relief of the symptoms, and all that, the " consumption" was not gripped, as the evening fever clearly 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 the 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. I believe the virus saved this life. Case XLIII. A young lady of 14, daughter of 90 Five Years' Experience in the a staff officer, was brought to me at the end of the year 1887, in the month of November. She was distinctly 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 lung 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 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 New Cure of Consumption. 91 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 XLIV. 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 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 92 Five Years' Experience in the 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 the 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 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 XLY. A little girl of 6 was brought by New Cure of Consumption. 93 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 the virus, and having one or two tissue-remedies, she was discharged in nine months in capital health, and without any morbid symptom of any sort or kind. And the cure holds good to date. Case XLVI. A young unmarried lady, 22 94 Five Years' Experience in the 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 little 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 the bowels. She had first Cheli- donium majus 0, 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 time, as she eats hardly any break- fast. So I went to the root of the matter, gave the virus (C.) for six New Cure of Consumption. 95 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 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 14 lbs. during the past six weeks, 96 Five Years' Experience in the 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 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. New Cure of Consumption. 97 Case XLVIIL 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 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 7 Five Years' Experience in the virus C, and this effected an essential cure,butotherremedieswereneeded for the non-consumptive part of the case, for, as I have before stated,^ and here again expressly point out, the tubercular virus acts within its own sphere only. Thus, in this case patient had been twice vaccinated, she had Thuja occidentalis 30 for a month; Bryonia ix was used for getting the pleura better; Pulsatilla ix brought a good deal of comfort to the ovarian region, as did also Cimicifuga 1, Bellis perennis 0, Rubia tinct. 0, and Ceanothus 1, did much to restore the sympathy of the left costal region, and Ignatia amara 1 was of real service in the emotional sphere—and yet, for all that, the actual consumptiveness was wiped out pleasantly and promptly by the virus. New Cure of Consumption. 99 She is now quite well these seven- teen months. Case XLIX. A little girl of 7 was brought to me in the month of December 1888 with tuberculous 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 ; IOO Five Years' Experience in the the remaining enlargement of the 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 surgeon who kept patient in his very excellent apparatus for several years, will be both interested in hearing that the essential remedy in the case was the virus of which we are here treating. Arzc Cure of Consumption. 101 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. 1 lb. I treated him with the virus, and in a few months got his weight up to iost. 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 the acute laryngeal process the virus had no power whatever. Case LII. A lady of 40, unmarried, came 102 Five Years' Experience in the 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 imperceptible. It is not easy to understand such cases, they are evidently in a chronic state of feverishness, 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 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 generally supposed to have at last " grown out " of her constitutional delicacy. New Cure of Consumption. 103 Case LIII. The influence of the virus upon the teeth and their growth and appearance 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 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 104 Five Years' Experience in the even more apparent and striking in the following case :—A girl of 11, 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 11 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 had died of consumption ; after three months' treatment with our ordinary remedies we had made but small progress, and then I kept patient altogetherfive months under the bacillic virus, with the result that her palpable glands ceased to be palpable ; her ringworm dis- appeared ; her ribs took on a better form ; her breathing was notably New Cure of Consumption. 105 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 had 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 clinically in the following manner:— A whole family of children of differ- ent ages had had ringworm for a full year, and the mother told me on bringing them that she had already spent over ^60 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 106 Five Years' Experience in the 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- 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 homoeopathic 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, New Cure of Consumption. I o 7 administered in the usual way, internally in dynamic dose; this I did all the more readily, as they all had numerous superficial palpable glands. And the result ? In a very 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 bacterio- logist 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. 108 Five Years' Experience in the Case LIY. This shall be my last case in illustration of my "Five Years' Experience in the New Cure of Consumption by its Own Virus." A young lad of 14 was brought to me in July 1886 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 four years of subsequent good health, free from any consumptive symp- tom, testify to the genuineness of the cure.* There was one feature * He has just successfully passed the med- New Cure of Consumption. 109 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 regarded 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 ical examination for service in the British army.—Second Edition. I io Five Years' Experience in the in the sun, and finally he had become 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 general explanatory propositions :— i. The virus of the consumptive process itself—here termed variously 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 administered by the mouth in what the homoeo- paths call high potencies. 3. The doses must not be too frequently administered ; one dose every sixth to tenth day is my own practical rule. New Cure of Consumption. 111 4. Low dilutions are inadmis- sible ; myself I have never gone below the thirtieth centesimal potency, and as I have known even this give rise to grave constitutional 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 is homoeopathic, and the remedy the homoeopathic pathologic simillimum of the to-be-cured disease. 7. Theoretically the stage at 112 Five Years' Experience in the 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 homoeopathicity 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 simil- limum 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 mastery. Hence also it is not the chronicity or age of the consumption 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. New Cure of Consumption. 113 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, 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 organ- ism augmented, the extreme point 8 H4 Five Years' Experience in the of the homoeopathic action of the virus would be pushed further out. It is known that poisons affect 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- 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, New Cure of Consumption. 115 I should, humanly speaking, get well." " How ?" "Will you do it?" " I will." " Then eat whether you have any appetite or not, feed, stuff yourself if need be, and if you will thus add 18 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, there- fore, the consumptive beware lest they undervalue the great helps of the past in the cure of consumption, which are the common property of all thoughtful medical men of all shades of views therapeutic, and not n6 Five Years' Experience. rush after the mad notion that any remedy can neutralize an unhealthy life or foul air, or counteract carping cares, or supply food and drink, or stamp out the footprints of the Nemesis of physical and psychic 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. SECOND EDITION. PART II. 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 Eng- land and, indeed, of Europe, now fully admit that whether the treat- ment of phthisis by its own virus be good or bad it belongs to homceo- 118 Five Years' Experience in the pathy. As an allopathic colleague exclaimed the other day,—"What a God-send Koch's discovery has been for you homoeopaths ; if it is true, he has proved your homoeo- pathic 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 there- fore 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. Goullon, 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- mceopatischer Aerzte," B, x., Hv., and Vj., October 20, 1891. Dr. Win- Nezv Cure of Consumption. 119 delband gives it a very sensible in- troductory notice, but is evidently staggered by the dilutions I have made use of, and yet at the same time confessing that his use of Tu- berculinum Kochii in the 6th to 10th homoeopathic decimal dilutions have given him very unsatisfactory re- sults. Put aside prejudice, dear Dr. Windelband, and try the higher dilutions in not too frequent repeti- tions. 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 means modern in practice, it may be found in traces almost everywhere and at 120 Five Years' Experience in the all periods of history. It is nearly sixty years since Lux published his Isopathik der Contagien. Weber published his work recommending 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 ; Yac- cininum, Morbillinum, Ozeninum, Syphilinum, Hydrophobinum, Gon- orrhoeinum, Loiminum, Hippozoi- num (used by Gross in cancer), and some others are recorded as cura- tive 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 New Cure of Consumption. 121 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 a minute 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 122 Five Years' Experience in the 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 affair a pro- found secret. And this proceeding I adopted and am now divulging my secret! But the cure was not efficacious ; my self-produced wart did not depart, and I forthwith had recourse to a very primitive chirur- gical operation and got rid of it. Was Essig werden soil, muss fr'iih sauer werden ! 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 New Cure of Consumption. 123 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 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 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 quo- ted from Paracelsus is not to his credit, for he must have read him. 124 Five Years' Experience in the In regard to the use of sputal tuberculinum I think it can be proved 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 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 homceopathischer Aerzte" (August and November 1890) Dr. Katsch tells us about this work by Dr. Robert Fludd, New Cure of Consumption. 125 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 esse exitialem suo simili ? Sic vermes ejecti e corpore et sicci in pulverem redacti, interna adminis- tratione enecant lumbricos: sputum rejecium a pulmonico post debitam praeparationem curat phthisin : splen hominis praeparatum inim- icum 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 carnis, morsum viperae, etc." 126 Five Years' Experience in the So : Sputum ejectum a pulmonico curat phthisin was taught by an English professor two hundred and fifty years ago, and, wrhat is even more remarkable post delitam prce- paralionem. Twenty-five years ago I was one day standing outside the General Hospital in Vienna when an elderly gentleman passed by my companion, and myself and entered under the archway : said my companion to me " Do you see that fellow ?" Yes. " He has a stone in his bladder; 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 effect that the Chi- Nczv Cure of Consumption. 127 nese do not much mind mad 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 Barambai it is custom- ary 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 Verkannter 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 homoeopathically prepared; this he terms the auto- ison or auto-tuberculinum. 128 Five Years' Experience in the 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 va- rious sources, sometimes obtained from one place and sometimes from another, but I imagine that the va- rious supplies were for the most part primarily from Dr. Swan of New York. They acted fairly well Nezu Cure of Consumption. 129 at times, 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 bacillary tuberculosis pul- monum, choosing a good-sized por- tion from the parietes of a cavity and its circumjacent tissue as herein will be found every thing pertaining to the tuberculous process — bacilli, debris, ptomaines and tubercles in all stages (such was practically the origin of the matrix of my Bacilli- num) and preparing by trituration in spirit. In this way nothing is lost. There is, moreover, nothing disgust- ing in this, which can hardly be said 9 130 Five Years' Experience in the of sputal tuberculinum—one in- stinctively shrinks from it. Finally this mode of obtaining our Bacilli- num will result in our having a fairly constant preparation, and one which will meet all practical requirements in the present imperfect state of our knowledge. No doubt in the fu- ture we shall have elaborate and scientifically-accurate investigations into the characters and qualities of the various bodies that our Bacilli- num no doubt contains ; but we who live now must use the means at our disposal, we cannot let our patients die because we have not now the hypothetically perfect pathologico- pharmaceutical preparations which it is permissible to believe our more favored aftercomers will possess; we must work with such tools as we Nczv Cure of Consumption. 131 have, and our Bacillinum is beyond any question the grandest anti-con- sumptive remedy the world now knows, and is likely to be for long years to come. At the best we can only serve our own generation di- rectly. If we faithfully record our experiences our successors in prac- tical medicine will be able, by fol- 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 132 Five Years' Experience in the 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 administered internally in homoeopathic dilution. It seemed to me, however, nothing like so good as Bacillinum in its therapeutic effects, and also not equal to the Tuberculinum Svvanii; but as I have had a good deal of experience with Swan's remedy and much more with Bacillinum, and very little with Koch's, I would not prejudice the question, as in the meantime I must consider myself rel- atively unqualified to give an opinion on Koch's remedy further than to say that it certainly has power over tu- bercular processes. All the cases that within my own Nezv Cure of Consumption. 133 and hearsay knowledge have been treated with Koch's remedy by hy- podermic injection have died. One case only that had been to Germany and been under a regular course of Kochian injections, has come under my personal care, and in this case the effects of the treatment were very curious. The young man's pulmonary phthisis was, seemingly, cured on the right side, i.e. the right lung appeared in all respects nor- mal but the left lung was almost solid. And I think the history of the case in question affords an ex- planation of the peculiar behaviour of the remedy. The point is im- portant in its practical bearing and I will therefore explain. The young man was phthisically-disposed, was suffering, in fact, from what I have 134 Five Years' Experience in the ventured to call consumptiveness. It was therefore determined to give him an outdoor occupation in a warm climate, and he was accordingly sent to Florida where he entered upon the new life, but, unfortu- nately, he got the ague of that country and after being greatly de- bilitated 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 havejust described. His spleen was very much enlarged so that what with a solid left lung and this engorged spleen he was, as be- fore stated, peculiarly left-sidedly diseased. I imagine, therefore, that New Cure of Consumption. 135 Koch's treatment might have suc- ceeded if the spleen and chronic malarialism had been first cured; this I set about doing and for a few weeks patient picked up wonder- fully and then I gave Bacillinum but to no purpose ; the phthisis had broken out in full blaze and the young man died. Here I again ob- served that Bacillinum has no influ- ence over acute phthisis in full blaze. Had the young man been treated by Bacillinum 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. CASE OF CONSUMPTIVENESS. A young man of about twenty years of age, brother of the fore- going, was ailing in just the same 136 Five Years' Experience in the 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 electrical engineer here in London. CASE OF CONSUMPTIVENESS. 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 Nezu Cure of Consumption. 137 had a very dusky browny 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 with the treatment, and we must ever keep before our minds that each case must be in- dividualized to the extent of not expecting the bacillinic specific to cure non-tubercular manifestations: for instance Bacillinum will not cure 138 Five Years' Experience in the chronic malarialism as it will also not cure vaccinosis or the hydrogs- 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 ma- jority of cases, for the simple reason that each will act only in its own sphere i.e. that to which it is homoeo- pathic it will cure and naught else. Ofcourse.toaman who really under- stands homoeopathy this is self-evi- dent ; all the same we are apt to lose sight of it more particularly in the presence of a series of sue- New Cure of Consumption. 139 cesses, so that unless we are mind- ful of this, our very successes will in the end land us on the rocks. In fine : remedies cure homceopath- ically 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 case the 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, be- cause of its essential importance to correct views and successful prac- tice. Thus I would refer to a case, 140 Five Years' Experience in the mentioned at the beginning, of syphilis and tuberculosis manifested in a urinary fistula; in this case Mercuriusand Bacillinum in alterna- tion cured the case while neither alone would do so. This kind of alternation is, I think, really scien- tific 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 Tuberculinum Kochii; and his father told me that the German physician who made the 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 New Cure of Consumption. 141 homoeopathic to ague. So we must always analyse our cases aetiologi- cally and pathologically as well as individualise them synthetically. The neglect of aetiologic diagnostics is indeed a " fatal error." Heresy? Taut pis. CASE OF < ONSl'MPTIYENESS. 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 consumptiveness ; 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, 142 Five Years' Experience in the Phytolacca dec. 3 and Psoricum 30 all with some benefit, but the really 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 thjey 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 globules of Bacillinum (30, C, CC, New Cure of Consumption. 143 or 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 frequently 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.: Bacil- linum will not cure vaccinosis, for instance, it works in its own sphere only. Also that the progress is much hastened when tissue salts are given after the consumptive state has been cured—thus after the 144 Five Years' Experience in the Bacillinum had cured Lord X.'s consumptiveness and he was well but iveedy, Calc. Phos. 3X 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 consumptiveness and treat half of them with, and half without the Bacillinum and he will agree with me that it is the Bacilli- num 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. CASE OF INCIPIENT PHTHISIS. On the 29th October 1890 a country gentleman brought his twenty-fouryear old daughter tome. New Cure of Consumption. 145 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 English girl of twenty-four years of age. Pa- tient complained of feeling very tired in the evenings; pains through the right half of the chest; the glands of the right side of the neck feelable and even visible ; the right mamma stringy and tender. The bacillic virus in the one-hun- 10 146 Five Years' Experience in the dredth potency produced some im- provement, but not very striking. The rush of blood during an attack of hurried breathing reminded me of the action of Urtica and hence the prescription of Urtica Urens 0 five drops in a tablespoonful of wa- ter night and morning. This seem- ingly cured the patient and she was verbally reported well on January 5, 1891. But the symptoms soon returned; the pains through the ri<>-ht lung became severe and the respiration very rapid. This accel- eration of the respiration being very pronouncedly wrorse in the evening I ordered Psoricum 30. March 6, 1891.—The breathing was normal after the Psoricum but it has again returned seemingly from a slight cold. She is less tired New Cure of Consumption. 147 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. in the same manner, viz. six globules dry on the tongue at bedtime every eighth day, Placeboes being admin- istered on the intervening 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 for- 148 Five Years' Experience in the merly 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 Bacillinum cures ringworm; this discovery 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 external applications whatever, merely directing the head to be washed with soap and water two or three times a week. I will add just one more case of ring- worm. Arzc Cure of Consumption. 149 CASE OF RINOWnkM. In the first edition, as just stated, I communicated the important fact —many smaller things are called great discoveries—that ringworm yields readily to Bacillinum, and that I therefore regard this cutaneous eruption as a tubercular manifesta- tion. 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 thriving ever since. So far as I am concerned in this 150 Five Years' Experience in the 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- cerned, but in view of its doctrinal and practical importance, I am con- templating a separate essay on "Ringworm." LICHEN RUB. DISCOLORATION OF TEETH, NOCTURNAL RESTLESSNESS. 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- Nezv Cure of Consumption. 15 1 cephalic condition and blackish teeth. Her mother was strumous and many members of her family have succumbed to phthisis. I as- certained that the nasty colour of her teeth was in no way due to lack of cleansing care. Two months of Bacillinum brought me a written report of her good health, winding up thus : " Her teeth are now a very good colour." Patient is of that fat strumous habit which some mistake for health. 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 form- erly of Brooklyn and now residing 15 2 Five Years' Experience in the in Switzerland came over from the Continent to see me in regard to a very peculiar case of arrested development in a lad. He had no teeth, he was stunted in growth and his skin was very dirty dingy-look- ing—having read the first edition of this work Dr. Young remem- bered what I say in regard to the influence of Bacillinum on the teeth and the tawniness of skin as an im- portant indication for its use. Act- ing upon these indications Dr. Young gave Bacillinum in high po- tency for some time with the result that the patient took to growing and his teeth sprouted, and alto- gether he was very remarkably changed under the bacillinic influ- ence. Nezv Cure of Consumption. i 5 3 HEMORRHOIDS IN THE PHTHISICALLY 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 trouble- some and painful than the phthisis proper. Simple uncomplicated cases ex- emplify best; thus:— 154 Five Years' Experience in the 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 off in a fortnight both of the piles and of the just-described pains after stool, and to-day, December 7, 189j, he continues quite well and has had no relapse. His hay fever was also seemingly cured in the Nciv Cure of Consumption. 15 5 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- logically and pathologically totally different ailments or diseases. In some, I think hay fever very dis- tinctly a manifestation of a phthisi- cal taint,—about the others I have not yet made up my mind. The pollen of grasses has the same relationship to hay fever as the north wind has 156 Five Years' Experience in the to a phthisical cough—the cough is hardly a north-wind cough in a pathological sense. PRE-PHTHISICAL DYSPEPSIA. A married gentleman twenty-four years of age came under my care on the 2nd of March 1891 to be treated for most distressing and in- veterate dyspepsia of three years' standing. He had the character- 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 3X 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 Nero Cure of Consumption. 157 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 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 enlarged 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. 158 Five Years' Experience in the 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. COUGH WITH CHRONIC PULMONARY CATARRH. A London gentleman just turned fifty years of age came under my professional care in the first days of January 1891. He was subject to a chronic cough with much catarrh of both the lungs ; his cough was very distressing indeed, and no wonder considering the awful fog then on. But, though the cough was much aggravated by the fog it was by no means due to it. There was some wheezing all over the chest, much worse of the left side, and patient gets feverish attacks which he terms New Cure of Consumption. 159 his " heats and sweats." Cough worse at night, wakened by 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 con- sumption." 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, 160 Five Years' Experience in the almost cheekless, hollow eyes, neck long, thin, studded with " waxen kernels," i.e., 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 feelably indurated very small glands. He is mum always, gives no replies to my enquiries and his mother tells me he will hardly ever talk ; he takes no interest in strangers or in general surroundings, and seemingly has no very special desire for any thing or any body, and hardly ever wants either to eat or drink, "And yet," exclaimed his mother, " he is not ill ! " Five months under our Bacilli- Nezu Cure of Consumption. 161 num C. and C.C. (in /^frequent dose I will here again reiterate) with an intercurrent month under Thuja 30 and followed by another month un- der Calc. Phos. 3X 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. CASE OF HYDROCEPHALISM OF TWENTY YEARS' STANDING. A gentleman forty-six years of age came to see me in the month of 11 162 Five Years' Experience in the November 1890 for pains at the back of the left side of his head that had worried him for over twenty years. He complained also of a pain in his right foot. His tongue coated, frothy and quivery. Deep-brown eyes. Although mar- ried he gets at times nocturnal emissions. His pains are worse in the evening, no pains on awaking. He tells me he has been subject to pains in his head (Bacillinum pro- duced severe long - lasting head- aches in the writer) all his life and that he had water on the brain as a child. His mother died at j^ of carcinoma ventriculi. He is de- pressed. He had the Bacillinum C, alto- gether thirty globules spread over a month and twice repeated, and Nezv Cure of Consumption. 163 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 the summer," said he the other day. CEPHALIC SUFFERINGS IN LATER LIFE PRIMARILY DUE TO OUTGROWN HYDROCEPHALUS. This part of my subject may be regarded as new, and deserves more than a passing consideration. In the first edition of this work I nar- rated a case in point. (Case XXIII.) Let us enter upon the subject some- what. We have all met with cases of oddly-shaped more or less piled-up or bulging-out heads, and these 164 Five Years' Experience in the 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 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 New Cure of Consumption. 165 periodical haemorrhoidal bleedings indicate, I 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- servation in the year 1880 in some distress of mind because he was childless; I found the urethra gleety and this I thought was the anatomical cause of his wife's bar- renness. He had a course of treat- ment from me to cure this sticky urethritis, and got in succession Thuja Occidentalis 3X, Hepar Sul. 3X, Natrum Sul. 4, and Cynosbati 0. These therapeutic measures were followed by his wife getting in the 166 Five Years' Experience in the family-way, and patient thereupon ceased attendance. There were three or four points in the case at the time that struck me, viz. the pe- culiar bulging state of his skull, certain brown patches on the skin and head suffering, and finally his frequent nocturnal emissions not- withstanding the fact that he was happily married. I did not see him 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 suffered pretty severely from nocturnal emissions, worse after the exercise of the marital func- tion. The peculiarity of his in- somnia was that he woke in the very early morning and could not get off again. I have before ex- Nczl> Cure of Consumption. 167 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. 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- 168 Five Years' Experience in the 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. And the result? For the first time in his life his bowels acted nor- mally, his hearing greatly improved, and, unless both he and I were and are mistaken, his head altered in shape quite perceptibly. So it seemed to us, but this seeming change in shape may have been due to his changed expression from a kind of sour glumness to one of smiling brightness. I may add that the patient knows nothing of my theories or of what remedies he had. 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. Nezv Cure of Consumption. . 169 PELVIC CONSUMPTIVENESS Consumptiveness may show itself 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- cular diathesis. But it shows it- self, perhaps almost as frequently, in the pelvic region ; as disturbances of the menstrual or sexual func- tions : in young men as more or less furious incoercible nocturnal emis- sions, masturbations, or excesses in venery, that if not cured run the sufferer to ground. The excessive fecundity of the tuberculously dis- posed needs no dwelling upon. The girls develop very quickly and ripen perhaps unduly in the bust. Such a case came under my 170 Five Years' Experience in the care very early in the year 1889. She had had profuse and too fre- quent periods for long though she was then but twenty years of age. In bust, large; in colour, white, waxen almost amyloid. Her breathing very distressing and de- bility profound. Her father has spinal curvature, and a little brother had died of tubercular meningitis. I regarded the dyspnoea as from the anaemia; the anaemia as from the excessive monthly losses and want of appetite, and the monor- rhagia as from a consumptive state of the pelvic organs. Two months 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- AVtt' Cure of Consumption. 17 1 ness of the menstruation disap- peared under Thuja 30, and patient was well. With some difficulty I got her to take Hydrastis Canadensis c/, 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- 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. 172 Five Years' Experience in the 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- phragm is white; below the dia- phragm his body-hair is black. Bacillinum 30 soon 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 Neiv Cure of Consumption. iy$ 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 cough becoming much more active. One of his daughters died of con- sumption of the bowels, so he in- formed me. TABES MESENTERICA. CONSUMPTION OF THE BOWEES. 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 174 Five Years' Experience in the 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- thing, and the doctor has been treat- ing him for worms but 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, Nczv Cure of Consumption. 175 " 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- 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 teeth so at night and I think he must have worms, his mouth gets sore and there are sores in the corners 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 176 Five Years' Experience in the 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." I turned up my case book and found the entry following: "April 5,1889.—Leonard X., art. 4 (nearly) 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 Neiv Cure of Consumption. i yy remedy than that of a mother when she remembers and picks out a given prescription of two years and 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 of Consump- tion,' 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 12 178 Five Years' Experience in the stage of consumption ; had spent one winter in the home at Ventnor. The doctors said no more could be done for her, and I did not think she would ever be any better, but had just come here to die. The kind friend who lent me your book administered the virus, and the patient so far recovered as to be able to take a situation near Liverpool, and by a letter received a day or two since is evidently fairly well. The sister, who has resided with me many years, aged 26, was looking very pale and feeling languid, no energy ; suffered, too, at monthly period. These young women are orphans—both parents died of consumption. She, too, be- gan taking the virus once a week for eleven weeks, and the change was wonderful; does not suffer monthly now. All who knew her said ' how well she looked.' She discon- tinued it the middle of July, and one reason I write you is to ask if you think she had better resume it ? " The third case was a young person far advanced in consumption; left lung affected ; could not lie on the left side. After taking Arezc Cure of Consumption. 179 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. " I ought to say the first-named patient had the right lung affected; cavities in it, and the left very weak. Her sister had lost flesh, but has gained nearly six pounds since taking the virus. I shall feel so obliged for a few lines when convenient." 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- 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 ; it must 180 Five Years' Experience. be given in high, higher and highest potencies and the doses must be FAR APART. To those who can use only low dilutions I solemnly say . . . Hands off! INDEX. Acetum lobelia;, 53, 73. Aconite, 35, 43, 44, 45- Ameke, Dr., of Berlin, 115. Ant. tart., 78. Arbor vitge, 29. Argentum nit., 88, 156. Arsenicum, 56, 60. Atrophy, incipient general, 159. Bacillic virus (C), 2, 18, 52, 53, 55, 57, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 66, 67, 68, 72, 73, 74, 76, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 94, 95> 96> 97> IOO> IOI> 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 103, 109, no, 112, 113, 115, n6, 117, 118. Bacillinum, the remedy, 128. Bacillinum, where to get it, 128. Baptisia, 35, 80. Bellis perennis, 32, 77, 98, 167. 182 Index. Bones, soft, and nocturnal restlessness, 80. Brain, tuberculosis of the, 42. Bryonia, 78, 98. Calc. carb., 46, 82. Calc. hypophos, 34. Calc. phos., 36, 61, 63, 66, 78,83, 144, 161. Calc. sul., 78. Cancer of the liver, 15. Carduus Marise, 34, 87, 88. Cases reported, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, ^^ 36, 40, 41, 47. 5°> 52> S3. 56> 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 66, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83, 84, 85, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 95, 97, 99, 100, 101, 103, 108, 136. Ceanothus Americanus, 35, 78, 87, 98. Cephalic sufferings, 163. Chamomilla, 43, 44- Chelidonium majus, 35, 61, 88, 84. Cholestearin, 35. Cholestearin, curative effects of, in cancer of the liver, 15. Churchill's inhalations, 78. Cimicifuga, 89, 98. Index, 183 Coccus cacti, 89. Consumption, effects of the poison of, 16. Consumption known as decline, 8^, 88, 89. Consumption of the bowels, 94, 173. Consumption, virus of, 14, 15, 16, 23, 24, 29, 3°, 34, 37, 49, IIX- See als0 Ba- cillic virus. Consumptiveness, cases of, 40, 50, 134, 135, 136, 141. Consumptiveness pelvic, 169. Cough with chronic pulmonary catarrh, 158. Cynosbati, 165. Diarrhoea, chronic, 62, 71. Dyspepsia, pre-phthisical, 156. Eczema, 21. Elaterium, 62. Eye, tuberculous affection of the, 80. Ferrum, 87. Fer. acet., 35, 38. Feverish attacks pointing to tuberculosis, 80. Fistula and its radical Cure by medicines, 18. 184 Index. Fistular anaemia and consumptiveness, 40. Fragaria vesca, 35. Glonoin, 45, 50. Haemorrhage from the bowels, 75. Haemorrhoids in the phthisically disposed, !53- Hepar sul., 32, 41, 165. Hepatisation of left lung, 172. Hip-joint disease, 100. Hydrastis canadensis, 41, 60, 69, 70, 79, 171. Hydrocephalus, 21. Hypophosphites, 78. Hydrocephalism, rase of twenty years' stand- ing, 161. Ignatia amara, 98. Iodium, 35, 50, 62, 78, 89. Iodoformum, 36, 54. Iris versicolor, 71. Kali carb., 41. Knee, tuberculous affections of the, 56,-76, 99. Index. 185 Koch, Professor, large dose injections, 23. Lichen rub., 150. Liver, cancer of the, 15. Mad dogs, 127. Mangan. acet., 38. Mesenteric disease, 91. Natrum sulph., 145. Nux vomica, 32, 41, 68. Pancreatin, 36. Perlarum mater, 100. Phosphorus, 36, 78, 90. Phthisis, incipient, 144. Phthisic virus, 26, 27, 32, 35, 38, 40, 41, 44, 45, 46, 47, 4«, 49, 56- See also Bacil~ lic virus. Phytolacca, 142. Piles, 154. Poison of consumption, effects of, 16, 22. Proving of virus, 16. Psoricum, 28, 39, 82, 142, 146. Pulsatilla, 32, 43, 44, 46, 5°, 53, 8l> 98- Pyrogenium, 35, 67, 68, 70. 186 Index. Quercus, 87. Remedy in the disease, the, 119. Restlessness, nocturnal, 150. Ringworm, 148. Ringworm cured by bacillic virus, 105-108, 149- Rubia tinctoria, 35, 98. Sabina, 56. Sanguisuga off, 35. Scalp, with many scabs, 82. Scilla maritima, 35, 78, 94. Second edition, 117. Sepia, 32. Silicea, 41. Skin, diseases of the, from the organismic standpoint, 20. Spiritus glandium quercus, 36, 53. Sputal tuberculinum, 124. Strumous glands, 175. Tabes mesenterica, 173. Teeth, discoloration of, 150. Teeth, influence of the virus upon, 103, 105, 150. Index. 187 Terebinth, 78. Thuja occidentalis, 32, 34, 45, 49, 56, 60, 61, 62, 65, 69, 79, 80, 82,87, 98, 141, 165, 171. Tubercular synovitis of the knee, 57. Tuberculinum Kochii, 131, 140. Tuberculinum Swanii, 132. Tuberculosis of the brain, 42. Tuberculosis, virus of, 24. Tuberculous affection of the eye, 80. Tuberculous affection of the knee, 77, 99. Urtica urens, 146. Vaccinosis, latent, 21, 44, 138, 143. Virus of consumption, 13, 15, 17, 18, 24, 25, 29, 34, 37, 59, in. See also Bacillic virus. Zincum aceticum, 38, 71. 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