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DISEASES OF THE LIVER. 
 
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 Diseases of the Liver : 
 
 JAUNDICE. GALL-STONES, 
 
 ENLARGEMENTS, TUMOURS, AND 
 
 CANCER : 
 
 AND THEIR TREATMENT. 
 
 BY 
 
 J. COMPTON BURNETT, M. D. 
 
 Second, Revised and Enlarged Edition. 
 
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PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION. 
 
 ^pO those accustomed to treat diseases 
 of the liver with remedies having an 
 elective affinity for the organ itself, the 
 contents of this volume must appear more 
 or less self-evident. I refer more par- 
 ticularly to the practitioners of scientific 
 therapeutics usually called homoeopaths. 
 But the practitioners of traditional medi- 
 cine will find in my pages a great deal to 
 interest them, and not a little that is new; 
 new at least to them. 
 
 Those of my readers who have a 
 taste for the more strictly doctrinal part 
 of my subject, I would refer to my small 
 work entitled * ' Diseases of the Spleen and 
 their Remedies Clinically Illustrated," to 
 which this is intended to be a companion 
 volume. 
 
vi Preface to First Edition, 
 
 The prevailing ignorance of good 
 organ-remedies is lamentable. Not long 
 since a lady came to me for a chronic 
 liver affection of nine years' standing, 
 and, though her physician is a man of 
 high standing in the profession, and a 
 doctor of medicine of the University of 
 London, his sole treatment had consisted 
 in giving the accursed morphia to lull the 
 pains. He had never even tried one 
 single good organ-remedy, and this not- 
 withstanding the fact that patient has long 
 been profoundly jaundiced. And this, 
 too, is I fear, a fair sample of the every- 
 day work of the men of light and leading 
 in the profession. 
 
 The pain being the outcome of the 
 disease, the treatment should have been 
 directed to the causal complaint, and not 
 to the effect — the pain. Had this been 
 done, the lady would, in all probability, 
 have been cured of the fundamental dis- 
 ease; as it is, her disease has become 
 
Preface to First Edition. vii 
 
 formidable, and probably incurable, and 
 she herself is a hopeless, helpless, will- 
 less morphia eater. 
 
 It is in the hope of throwing a 
 little light into this dismal darkness that 
 these pages are sent to the Press. 
 
 October 2, 18 go. 
 
PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. 
 
 J^HE first edition of this work being 
 exhausted, this second edition gives 
 me an opportunity of saying by way of 
 one word, that my little treatise ' ' Diseases 
 of the Spleen" contains much that, in 
 justice to my subject, ought to have ap- 
 peared in "Diseases of the Liver," I 
 refer more particularly to the theoretical 
 considerations on the place of organopathy 
 in the homoeopathic edifice. Attention 
 was called to this, but most of my review- 
 ers have clearly overlooked the point and 
 hence it has come to pass that I feel that 
 my dear little bantling has not had quite 
 fair play. It has, so to speak, been 
 dotting about the world on one leg much 
 to my parental concern. 
 
 My stand-point in Diseases of the 
 Liver is a scientific and doctrinal one and 
 
x Preface to Second Edition. 
 
 one moreover of great practical impor- 
 tance and my little book is not merely an 
 omnium gatherum of hepatic odds and 
 ends. For my justification I now add 
 Part /, which ought to have appeared in 
 the first edition. 
 
 J. COMPTON BURNETT, M. D. 
 
 86 Wimpole Street, 
 
 Lo?tdon, W. 
 Midsummer, 1895. ■ 
 
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PART I. 
 
 The Autonomy and Hegemony of the Organ 
 in the Organism : Bei?ig Remarks In- 
 troductory to the Cure of Organ Diseases 
 by Organ Remedies in Reference to Dis- 
 eases of the Liver, 
 
The Diseases of the Liver: 
 
 The Antomony and Hegemony of the 
 Organ in the Organism. 
 
 T^HE interaction of the human 
 organism with its environment 
 has generally been recognized in 
 every age according to the views 
 current at the time, the relations 
 of the microcosm to the macrocosm 
 used to be a big chapter in medical 
 doctrine. 
 
 That man acts upon his environ- 
 ment has been well demonstrated 
 by the changes that have been 
 wrought in physical nature in the 
 United States, Canada and Aus- 
 tralia since they have become in- 
 
2 Environment, 
 
 habited. The differences in the 
 American, Canadian, and Aus- 
 tralian shew clearly that nature 
 reacts back on man who is moulded 
 and formed by his climate. I am 
 personally acquainted with a gen- 
 tleman, now resident in London, 
 who at twenty years of age left 
 England for Eastern Europe, and 
 there remained till he was thirty 
 years of age when he returned to 
 this country. When he went he 
 had an abundance of light curly 
 hair. On his return his hair was 
 abundant and curly but nearly 
 black, so that his own mother did 
 not know him and his own brother 
 who went on board the steamer by 
 which this gentlemen returned and 
 hunted for him amongst the pas- 
 sengers entirely failed to recognize 
 
Maternity. 3 
 
 him though he stood close by him 
 for some time, he was looking for a 
 light-haired man. After ten years 
 further residence in Bngland his 
 hair had almost returned to its 
 original light color. 
 
 When the spermatozoon and the 
 ovule meet and marry their inter- 
 action comes to a complete organic 
 union resulting in a new organism, 
 thus of dual origin, and finding a 
 suitable habitat in the womb sets 
 up a connection with the mother. 
 Here the maternal organism and 
 the foetus interact with one another: 
 the influence of the foetal organism 
 upon the mother's organism is 
 very curious: her breasts grow, 
 her back widens, her shoulders 
 
 broaden, her gait alters. Yet not- 
 
 2 
 
4 Organs. 
 
 withstanding the dependence of 
 the foetns upon the mother and the 
 maternal changes npon the foetns 
 the two lead independent lives and 
 may even have certain diseases in- 
 dependently of one another. 
 
 In this way we come np to what 
 we may conceive to be the natnre 
 of the physiological position of the 
 varions organs of the body to the 
 organism itself; what the macro- 
 cosm is to the microcosm that the 
 microcosm is to the separate organs. 
 
 Although the crasis of all the 
 fluids of the body and the stroma 
 of all its organs and parts must in 
 the main be about the same, both 
 physiologically and pathologically, 
 still there is a certain individual 
 life and equality being inherent in 
 
Organs. 5 
 
 each organ and part and I surmise 
 that there are many kinds of blood 
 corpuscles. 
 
 For the present, confining our- 
 selves to the organs only, we wish 
 to enquire somewhat into the ques- 
 tion of how and how far a given 
 organ is to be considered therapeu- 
 tically apart from the organism of 
 which it forms a part and without 
 which it has no existence. 
 
 This idea has swam more or less 
 before my mind for nianj^ years, 
 and I have given expression to it 
 in several of my writings, particu- 
 larly in my " Diseases of the 
 Spleen" and in the second part of 
 this work, and its importance in 
 my daily clinical work increases 
 with time. 
 
6 Question of Dose. 
 
 The question of the independent 
 existence of the organ, or rather of 
 the existence of a something in each 
 organ (and I believe in each region 
 and part) deserves the most care- 
 ful study and consideration because 
 of its bearing upon treatment, and 
 upon the question of the dose, viz: 
 whether to use high, low or me- 
 dium dilutions, and this quite apart 
 from organotherapy. 
 
 On this peculiar something in 
 each organ the Rademacherian 
 practice of medicine is largely based 
 but nothwithstanding its practica 
 utility it has thus far not been 
 scientifically elucidated so little in 
 deed that but few regard it as o: 
 any particular importance ; in fact 
 we may say that it has barely an} 
 
Signatures. 7 
 
 recognized existence at all. And 
 yet there it is, and for a number of 
 years has been of so much help to 
 me in my clinical work that I feel 
 impelled to dwell upon the subject 
 here a little more at large. Brown- 
 Sequard's work in the later years 
 of his life has physiologically 
 taught us that there is in the very 
 deed a real "self" in each organ 
 and that such organ has a func- 
 tional importance for its organ- 
 ism to whose entirety it belongs. 
 The effects of spaying and castra- 
 ting are well known and really 
 prove the point so far as ovaries 
 and testicles are concerned — this 
 has been recognized all along. 
 The old doctrine of signatures is 
 laughed at by almost all physi- 
 cians, inclusive of the homoeopaths, 
 
8 Signatures. 
 
 and yet it is not without consider- 
 able foundation in fact; and, in- 
 deed, facts in great numbers may 
 be drawn from homoeopathic liter- 
 ature in support of its real practical 
 value. It has often helped me and 
 I have long since ceased to ridicule 
 it. Of course, it can easily be 
 turned upside down and made to 
 look silly, but still there it is and 
 in the long run will most certainly 
 be justified by science. I am very 
 certain Hahnemann believed in it 
 for it is manifest that he drew very 
 numerous indications from it for 
 his remedies. That Constantine 
 Hering also believed in it seems 
 pretty certain, and Hering knew 
 his Hohenheim, of whose works he 
 made a splendid collection. Von 
 Grauvogl, too, shows that he was 
 
Signatures. 9 
 
 not uninfluenced by it. Rade- 
 macher ever made merry over it, 
 and yet many of his remedies came 
 into use through it, Chelidonium 
 to wit. Von Grauvogl years ago 
 recommended Pulmones vulpecu- 
 larum in asthma and I have fol- 
 lowed his recommendation with 
 advantage, he was laughed at a 
 good deal at the time, but now 
 science comes along and puts a 
 stop to the ridicule so long cast 
 upon Paracelsic organ feeding. 
 
 There is a peculiar disease con- 
 sisting in an enlargement of the 
 hands and feet, face, head an ex- 
 tremities, called Marie's Disease, or 
 Acromegaly, with which and en- 
 largement of the pituitary gland — 
 is commonly associated — here it 
 
io Thyroid Gland. 
 
 would appear that the nutrition of 
 the extremities is directly influ- 
 enced by the pituitary gland. The 
 enlargement of the pituitary gland 
 is said to be a true hypertrophy of 
 its substance and not a neoplastic 
 process. 
 
 That the influence of the pitui- 
 tary gland affects development and 
 nutrition is also shewn by the 
 other overgrowth and undergrowth 
 tendencies connected with pituitary 
 disease. 
 
 The autonomy and hegemony of 
 the individual organ is even more 
 clearly demonstrated by modern 
 research in regard to the thyroid 
 gland. 
 
 As is well known Goitre, or 
 Derbyshire neck, is exceedingly 
 
Goitre. 1 1 
 
 common in Switzerland. Some 
 dozen years ago Dr. Kocher, of 
 Berne, communicated to the Ger- 
 man Surgical Congress the results 
 of a hundred extirpations of Goitre 
 and shewed that there arose in 
 some of his observations an affec- 
 tion consecutive to the total abla- 
 tion of the thyroid gland which he 
 described as cachexia strumipriva. 
 In English medical language 
 struma is synonymous with scrof- 
 ula while botanists understand by 
 struma the swelling or protruber- 
 ance of any organ. In Central 
 Europe struma is used as a syn- 
 onym of Derbyshire neck and of 
 other not necessarily strumous 
 swellings. 
 
 The next step was the recogni- 
 
12 Feeding Thyroid. 
 
 tion of the similarity of the arti- 
 fact cachexia strumipriva with the 
 idiopathic malady known as myx- 
 oedema and reasoning that inas- 
 much as as the artifact disease 
 arose in consequence of the total 
 ablation of the thyroid it might be 
 that myxoedema was likewise due 
 to a lack of the thyroid organ- 
 influence on the organism. Feed- 
 ing the myxoedematous with ani- 
 mal thyroids soon shewed that the 
 reasoning was sound, and this 
 nutritional therapeutics is now the 
 recognized treatment of my xcedema 
 due to simple thyroid atrophy. 
 And very pretty it all is. 
 
 Kocher finding that the total 
 ablation of the thyroid led to myx- 
 oedema afterwards modified his 
 
Operating. 1 3 
 
 mode of operating and adopted the 
 plan of leaving a portion of the 
 gland capable of functional activity 
 instead of totally ablating it. And 
 lie tells us that he has since oper- 
 ated on 900 cases of Goitre in this 
 manner and in no case has any 
 cachexia strumipriva supervened. 
 Furthermore, Kocher has hunted 
 up a number of his old cases of 
 total ablation in whom the cachexia 
 had appeared and fed them with 
 thj^roids with the most satisfactory 
 results. 
 
 It has been found that overfeed- 
 ing with thyroids acts poisonously 
 upon the organism generally and 
 specifically, and this will no doubt 
 be called thyroidism, if it has not 
 alread}^ received that name. 
 
14 Experimental Feeding. 
 
 Lanz and Trachewski have made 
 experiments with thyroid feeding 
 under the immediate supervision 
 of Kocher himself and produced in 
 dogs mi tons les symptomes de la 
 maladie de Basedow" and what is 
 positively startling ' ' ce mode de 
 traitement pent amener a la longue 
 une atrophie complete des parties 
 saines de la glande thyroide" ! ! 
 
 Now, the fates are distinctly un- 
 kind to our allopathic friends who 
 had begun to score one by their 
 cure of myxcedema with thyroid 
 glands added to the food of the 
 sufferers : the place of the atrophied 
 thyroid being supplied by the thy- 
 roid food, and here comes experi- 
 mental science and shews that the 
 thyroid feeding in the long run 
 
Thyroid Dose. 15 
 
 contingently produces atrophy and 
 not only atrophy, but complete 
 atrophy of the healthy parts of the 
 thyroid gland. So that in future 
 the dose of the thyroid extract 
 must be lessened because this new 
 therapeutic acquisition of allopathy 
 over which we homoeopaths had 
 certainly become not a little jeal- 
 ous, is after all not only pure 
 homoeopathy but its symptomatic 
 and pathologic homoeopathicity is 
 demonstrated all ready for us in 
 their own laboratories. Now our 
 allopathic friends must do as they 
 did in regard to tuberculinum, viz: 
 admit the efficacy of small doses 
 and with it the truth of the homoeo- 
 pathic law, or officially drop the 
 thyroid business, as they did with 
 tuberculinum. They will go out 
 
1 6 Functions of the Liver. 
 
 of the thyroid business in time 
 confused by their own work, be- 
 cause without the light of the 
 homoeopathic law it must end in 
 confusion. So after all Paracelsus 
 was right in recommending his 
 lung-to-lung and kidney-to-kidney 
 homoeopathy, and the dignity of 
 the organ has risen to university 
 rank and fellowship. 
 
 What I in this volume am really 
 concerned with is the importance 
 of the organ, its complete auton- 
 omy and hegemony, as bearing on 
 the diseases of the liver. 
 
 The functions of the liver are 
 too large a chapter for me now to 
 touch upon, but the newest data of 
 science in regard to goitre and 
 
Three Points. 17 
 
 thyroid feeding bring out into a 
 clear light these points :■ — 
 
 1. That the organ in the organ- 
 ism does indeed possess not only 
 autonomy but hegemony, z. e. the 
 organ is an independent state in 
 itself and in and on the organism 
 exercises an important influence. 
 
 2. That both a plus and a minus 
 of a given organ results in disease 
 of the organism. 
 
 3. That the organ-to-organ ho- 
 moeopathy of Paracelsus is a scien- 
 tific iact. 
 
 And we thus see that organ- 
 remedies by restoring the disturbed 
 organ to health cures the organism 
 itself. 
 
 I have for years fought for the 
 
1 8 Organopathy. 
 
 recognition of the organ in the 
 organism from the clinical side and 
 maintained that organopathy lies 
 at the very root of homoeopathy in 
 its simplest and most elementary 
 form, and now that orthodoxy 
 is officially proclaiming "organo- 
 theraphy" (Paracelsic organ -to - 
 organ homoeopathy) and now that 
 physiologists firmly and faithfully 
 believe that all the glands have a 
 creative, formative, directing, con- 
 trolling, nutritive, antitoximal in- 
 ternal secretion, surely I need fight 
 no longer the cause of the organ in 
 the organism. 
 
 By the way, it seems to me that 
 Hale's Law of Dose is amply con- 
 firmed by the clinical results of 
 organotherapy, the law may not 
 
Org anopathy. 19 
 
 be of universal application but it 
 and it only, explains many of the 
 phenomena of homoeopathic cures. 
 Iron produces plethora and anaemia 
 and who amongst us can deny the 
 splendid cures of anaemia by iron 
 in full dose? We all see them 
 daily. And who would for a mo- 
 ment think of using full doses of 
 iron in plethora? and certainly we 
 use with much advantage infinites- 
 imal doses of iron for many symp- 
 toms of plethQra. 
 
 We may say that the full doses 
 are nutritional only, but it seems 
 to me that that is not all. The 
 newer facts of organotherapy, pres- 
 ently to come may, perhaps, clear 
 the matter up^. 
 
PART II. 
 
The Diseases of the Liver: 
 
 Jaundice > Gall-stones, 
 
 Enlargements, Tumours, a?id Cancer, 
 
 and their Treatment, 
 
 JAUNDICE. 
 
 TF anyone shall maintain that 
 Jaundice is not a greater dis- 
 ease of the liver, but a minor one, 
 I shall reply, Then such a one has 
 never had the curious complaint. 
 Jaundice was the indirect efforts at 
 independent thought in medicine ; 
 it was in this wise: — A student 
 was working with Professor H 
 
24 Jaundice. 
 
 with the microscope while he had 
 a bad cold in his head — in the hot 
 trickling dewdrop stage — and find- 
 ing that microscopizing nnder the 
 circumstances was not an easy 
 matter, he said to his professorial 
 friend, u What's good for a cold in 
 the head ?" 
 
 "Oh," said he, " sniff up cold 
 water into your nostrils — that'll 
 cure it quickly." 
 
 Studiosus set his microscope 
 aside ; went home. Once there, 
 forthwith sniffed cold water most 
 diligently into his nostrils, and 
 cured the said coryza there and 
 then. A sweet cure ! as the sequel | 
 shewed. 
 
Jaundice, 25 
 
 The next da) 7 lie had the begin- 
 ning symptoms of catarrhal jaun- 
 dice, and in two days the affection 
 was well-established. 
 
 Professor H. was again con- 
 sulted, and said he must give up 
 hospital work at once, and take a 
 holiday in the hills. 
 
 Being conversant with all the 
 facts of the case, it occurred to me 
 that as catarrhal jaundice was due 
 to a catarrh of the gall-ducts, just 
 as the coryza was a catarrh of the 
 nose, so if we could only get at the 
 gall-ducts as readily as at the 
 nostrils, we might wash them out 
 also, and thus cure the jaundice, as 
 the coryza had been cured. 
 
26 Colds. 
 
 I have had a certain number of 
 colds in the head to treat during 
 the years that have since elapsed, 
 but I have never recommended 
 Professor H.'s plan of sniffing cold 
 water into the nostrils, believing a 
 catarrh of the nose to be less bad 
 than a corresponding state of the 
 gall-ducts. This simple narration 
 really touches at the very founda- 
 tions of all curing: The young 
 man was not well; nature sought 
 to rid his organism of something 
 harmful to his organismic self; 
 she set up a watery discharge from 
 a small portion of the mucous 
 lining of the body, near the sur- 
 face and not otherwise too much 
 functionally occupied. This hot 
 
Fluxes. 27 
 
 running from the nose was really 
 a curative expression of the organ- 
 ism. (The young man had been 
 long living and working in the 
 most foul atmosphere of dissecting 
 rooms and hospital wards.) The 
 cold water stopped it (the flux, not 
 the disease,) and then nature fell 
 back upon the liver, as she so often 
 does. 
 
 Centrifugal fluxes and discharges 
 should not be lightly stopped. 
 
 Why the flux ? Whence the dis- 
 charge ? Let the questions of the 
 why ? and whence ? be answered as 
 we go along. Here I merely insist 
 upon the elementary truth that a 
 morbid process having a, perhaps, 
 time-honored name, may be never- 
 
28 Fluxes, 
 
 theless no disease at all, but merely 
 a means of cure set up by nature 
 herself, and that there are diseases 
 which it is disadvantageous or dan- 
 gerous to cure, that is to cure in 
 the sense in which the verb to cure 
 is commonly used in English by 
 the thoughtless. Of course to ef- 
 fect a really radical cure of any 
 primary disease can never be other 
 than a gain to the individual. 
 
" Yaller Janders." 29 
 
 Case of Catarrhal Jaundice 
 cured by Cheltdonium majus. 
 
 A good many years since I was 
 summoned to see a country gentle- 
 man for sudden indisposition. It 
 was a rather tedious railway jour- 
 ney, and a humble friend of the 
 family, anxious to enlighten me, 
 told me that the squire had the 
 " Ye Her Janders" Yellow the 
 patient was, indeed, and the colour 
 was from jaundice! There were 
 the usual sjanptoms — constipation, 
 scanty urine of a dark yellow 
 browny colour, and debility with 
 depression of spirits. Chelidonium 
 majus in small material doses, put 
 matters right in a few days, leaving 
 the patient, however, weak. 
 
30 Chelidonium. 
 
 " What medicine have you been 
 giving my husband ?" 
 
 " A new remedy." 
 
 " What's it's name." 
 
 " Chelidonium majus" 
 
 " What's the English of that?" 
 
 " The greater Celandine." 
 
 " Then it is not by any means a 
 new remedy, for it is in my old 
 Herbal, in which it is recommended 
 for jaundice." 
 
 And so it was: the use of the 
 greater Celandine in jaundice has 
 trickled down to us through the 
 ages from the primary source of 
 the doctrine of signatures. 
 
 Of Chelidonium majus, I would 
 say that it is in this country the 
 greatest liver medicine we have, 
 
Chelidonium . 3 1 
 
 and there is, in all conscience, no 
 lack of hepatics. Some of my 
 early success in practice was due 
 to my use of Chelidonium. 
 
 It came about thus: I went to 
 see an important lady for a well- 
 known physician in the north, he 
 being too busy to attend, but said 
 lady strongly objected to new 
 doctors. She took a look at me — 
 as I subsequently learned — from a 
 position where she herself was in- 
 visible to me, and did not like the 
 look of me. So I was sent away 
 with many apologies from the 
 daughter. Her hepatalgia was 
 easier just at that moment: she 
 would wait till her own physician 
 would come. 
 
32 Chelidonium. 
 
 A few days later the pain in her 
 right side became unbearable, and 
 said physician again sent me. This 
 time I was admitted and fonnd her 
 in very great pain in the hepatic 
 region: she had had it at intervals 
 for very many years — abont thirty 
 years, if I remember rightly. The 
 liver was very mnch enlarged and 
 the pains very acute ; there was no 
 jaundice, the tongue mapped, 
 
 I mixed some Chelidonium majus 
 and had it given pretty frequently : 
 it eased the pain more promptly 
 than ever the pain had been re- 
 lieved before, and finally cured it 
 altogether. Her whole life was 
 changed. To make amends for 
 having refused to see me on my 
 
Chelidonium. 33 
 
 first calling upon her she presented 
 me with a piece of plate, and sent 
 me subsequently very many of her 
 suffering friends. 
 
 So einflusserich was this vener- 
 able dame that I feel her practical 
 influence to this very day. 
 
 This cure, and its gratifying re- 
 sults to a struggling young doctor, 
 fixed my attention a good deal 
 upon Chelidonium, and upon liver 
 affections, which are everywhere so 
 common; and it has been my lot 
 to relieve or cure a very large 
 number of liver diseases — and from 
 this wide experience I now write. 
 
 My first real acquaintance with 
 Chelzdonzum was from Dr. Richard 
 
34 Pharmacodynamics, 
 
 Hughes's " Pharmacodynamics," a 
 work to which I owe so much, and 
 which I sincerely commend to all 
 who wish to understand the actions 
 of drugs. 
 
 I would not be too sure of my 
 botanic knowledge, but I have an 
 idea that Chelidonium is the only 
 plant, indigenous to this country, 
 which possesses a yellow juice. 
 That the colour of this juice led to 
 its use in liver diseases on the 
 lines of the doctrine of Signatures 
 the historically competent will 
 hardly deny. That it has a specific 
 affinity for the great gall-organ 
 anyone may verify for himself if 
 he will take a few drachms of the 
 mother tincture in divided doses. 
 It is kindly and gentle in its ac- 
 
Rademacher. 35 
 
 tion, which action is fully set up 
 with only a very minute dose, but 
 inasmuch as my more intimate 
 knowledge of it comes to me from 
 the Rademacherians, I have gen- 
 erally used it in small material 
 doses. 
 
 It will be interesting to give 
 Rademacher's experience with 
 Chelidonium. 
 
 He used it as an organ remedy, 
 or in other words on the homoeo- 
 pathic principle in its elementary 
 form of specificity of seat* 
 
 * I have entered so fully into the question of 
 the identity of the organopathy of the Hohen- 
 heimians and the specificity of seat of the 
 homoeopaths, in my work entitled " Diseases of 
 the Spleen and Their Remedies Clinically Illus- 
 trated ' ' that I may fairly refer my readers 
 hereto in lieu of going over the same ground 
 again here. 
 4 
 
36 Rademacher* s Use 
 
 Rademacher's Use of 
 Chelidonium. 
 
 Rademacher, with the charming 
 simplicity of really great knowl- 
 edge, tells us in regard to Cheli- 
 donium, that he had long despised 
 it is worthless, and confessedly to 
 his shame, for he remarks that it 
 was a celebaated hepatic remedy in 
 olden times. (See his Erfarh- 
 rungsheillehre, p. 163.) 
 
 He then enters into a long dis- 
 sertation upon its action and comes 
 to the conclusion that it affects the 
 " inner liver." He says a physician 
 need have no great experience to 
 know that the disease of the liver, 
 
of Chelzdonzum. 37 
 
 that in its perfected form shews 
 itself as jaundice, has endless gra- 
 dations that in every-day life and 
 in medical speech are not regarded 
 as jaundice. Still the very slight- 
 est degree of the jaundice-affection 
 shews itself in the urine by its pale 
 gold colour, and in the skin, par- 
 ticularly in that of the face, by its 
 more or less dirty look. And 
 where there is but little gall in the 
 motions and no icteric discolour- 
 ation of the skin, it follows that 
 we have in such cases to deal with 
 not merely an obstruction to the 
 outflow of the gall into the duo- 
 lenum, but with that unknown 
 Drgan by which the gall is pre- 
 Dared from the blood; this gall- 
 tnaking organ is ill, so that bile is 
 
38 Radetnacher* s Use 
 
 not duly prepared at all, and there- 
 fore none can be either poured out 
 or absorbed into the skin, or cast 
 out by the urine. This is what 
 Rademacher calls the " inner liver," 
 not indeed as an anatomical ex- 
 pression, but as a figure of speech 
 to convey to the mind a more or 
 less accurate and concrete concep- 
 tion of the sphere of action of the 
 Chelidonium majus. 
 
 This conception of the true sphere 
 of action of Chelidonium is, I think, 
 correct. 
 
 The cases cited by Rademachei 
 are mostly " bilious fevers." 
 
 Where the gall ducts are alone 
 implicated he considers Nux vomica 
 the right remedy. Hence CheliX 
 
of Chelidonium. 39 
 
 donzum would be indicated in 
 alcholia as well as in jaundice when 
 the affection is primary to the 
 " inner liver/' 
 
 Rademacher's favorite mode of 
 using it is the simple juice of the 
 plant with just as much alcohol as 
 will clarify and preserve it. His 
 dose was at one time one scruple 
 of his tincture a day, but in chronic 
 cases of liver affections he subse- 
 quently came down to two or three 
 drops a dose, given four or five 
 times a day. He even came down 
 to one-drop doses diluted in half-a- 
 cupful of water, till at last he 
 thinks he might be accused of 
 copying the homoeopathic posology 
 of " Mr. Hahneman I" He tells us, 
 
40 Rademacher* s Dose 
 
 however, (" Erfarhrungsheillehre" 
 p. 176), that he first appreciated 
 the curative value of small doses 
 from Helmont,* who roused in his 
 soul the thought that small doses 
 of drugs might have great curative 
 effects. 
 
 But Rademacher confesses that 
 he at first did not clearly perceive 
 the importance of the small dose 
 until he had got rid of his earlier 
 and more gross views, and came 
 from diligent observation to get 
 concise views of primary organ- 
 diseases as they really exist in 
 nature. In a foot-note (p. 176) 
 he protests that the small dose can- 
 not be correctly spoken of as 
 
 * Opera omnia, p. 552, in the chapter with the 
 superscription Butler. 
 
of Chelidonium. 41 
 
 "homoeopathic," but as being the 
 property of Paracelsus, and refers 
 to the eleventh chapter of the fifth 
 book of Hohenheim's "Chirurg- 
 ische Schriften," De Causzs et 
 origine hits Galliccz, which he rec- 
 ommends his readers to peruse at- 
 tentively, and concludes thus . . . 
 "wenn sie dieses gethan, werden 
 sie wol nicht mehr von homoo- 
 pathischen Arzeneigaben sprechen , 
 sondern sie werden begreifen, dass 
 die Wahrheit — unwdg und unmess- 
 bare Arzeneigaben konnen, wenn 
 das durch Krankheit vei'anderte 
 Verhaltniss des Korpers zur Aus- 
 senwelt sich dazu eigene, wunder- 
 volle Heihvir kungen mtssern — mit 
 der sogenannten homoopathischen 
 
42 The Small Dose. 
 
 Theorie gar nicht in Beriihrung 
 
 kommt." 
 
 In other words . . . unweighable 
 and nnmeasnrable doses of reme- 
 dies can produce wonderfully cura- 
 tive effects when the condition of 
 the body in regard to its environ- 
 ment have been altered by disease 
 and thus rendered susceptible 
 thereto, and thus have nothing at 
 all to do with the so-called homoeo- 
 pathic theory. 
 
 But this only by the way, I am 
 writing of the Diseases of the 
 Liver ; still it is pretty evident 
 that Rademacher in his later days 
 had become conscious that his 
 own practice and teachings were 
 
Homoeopath-wards. 43 
 
 leading hiin, nilly- willy, homoeo- 
 path-wards. 
 
44 Enlci7 r ged Liver. 
 
 Case of Enlargement of the 
 
 Liver with Jaundice cured 
 
 by Chelidonium. 
 
 A lady of seventy, stout, and 
 given to very little exercise, came 
 under my observation, and on ex- 
 amination I found her severe and 
 frequent right-sided pains were 
 due to a swelled liver, which was 
 tender in pressure. Skin and con- 
 junctivae subicteric, motions con- 
 taining but very little bile ; urine 
 on the contrary loaded with it. 
 She was at the seaside and this it 
 was, she said, that had upset her 
 liver. Tongue coated, giddy, low- 
 spirited, pulse intermittent, in- 
 
Chelidonium. 45 
 
 somnia, lethargic, loss of appetite, 
 fear of death. 
 
 Chelidonium majus in small ma- 
 terial doses resulted in complete 
 recovery in ten days, when she re- 
 turned home with a regular pulse, 
 clear eyes and skin, and all the 
 functions normal, and very de- 
 cidedly of opinion that life, even at 
 seventy years of age, is not at all 
 a bad thing. 
 
 Enlarged Liver and Conges- 
 tion of the Right Lung, 
 cured by Chelidonium. 
 
 A young officer in the Army was 
 invalided home from India for liver 
 and lung disease and came to me. 
 
46 " Inner Liver" 
 
 I found his liver large and tender, 
 tlie right lung engorged, his skin 
 very muddy, bowels costive, and 
 he was dreadfully depressed and 
 weak. He was quite sure he was 
 in consumption. The lung affec- 
 tion I regarded as consecutive to 
 the engorgement of the liver, there 
 being, in the words of Rademacher, 
 a primary affection of the " inner " 
 liver. Chelidonium in small mate- 
 rial doses quite restored him to 
 health in three weeks. In due 
 course he returned to his regiment. 
 
Jaundice, 47 
 
 Case of Pronounced Jaundice 
 CURED by Chelidoniiim. 
 
 A middle-aged gentleman, a 
 merchant, returned from the Kast 
 Indies with very severe jaundice, 
 which had resulted in considerable 
 emaciation. The voyage home and 
 a stay of some duration in the 
 north had not mended matters. 
 He was very depressed in spirits, 
 almost the colour of mahogany, 
 and the urine was very scant-and 
 brown-yellow. His bowels very 
 constipated. 
 
 How quickly and pleasantly he 
 was cured, he even now never tires 
 of telling his Manchester friends. 
 
48 Jaundice. 
 
 I might tell of a lady who had 
 severe and long-lasting jaundice 
 and who was speedily cured by 
 Chelidonium, and of a notable 
 number of other cases of liver af- 
 fections cured by it, but it is need- 
 less. What I have already narrated 
 will suffice. 
 
 I would, however, just dwell upon 
 the fact that Cke/tdomum will very 
 frequently cure engorgements of 
 the right lung even when it is a 
 concomitant of true phthisis, but it 
 has no influence over the general 
 phthisical state, other than what 
 pertains to, and results from, the 
 lower half of the right lung and 
 liver. As an intercurrent remedy 
 in the hepatic complications of 
 
Not a Cure-all. 49 
 
 phthisis it is capable of rendering 
 important service. 
 
 Likewise as an intercurrent rem- 
 edy in gall-stones it is useful, as is 
 also Myrica cej ifera, but both stand 
 far behind Hydrastes in this affec- 
 tion. 
 
 My own conception of its true 
 seat of action is that it affects the 
 liver cells : Rademacher's " inner" 
 liver. 
 
 There are numerous affections of 
 the liver that Chelidonium will not 
 touch curatively at all, and there- 
 fore it must not be regarded as a 
 liver cure-all, which it is not. 
 
50 Chelidonium and 
 
 For instance, it affects the left 
 lobe of the liver much less than 
 does Carduus Marice, to a consider- 
 ation of which we will proceed 
 after having first given a short 
 account of Rademacher's use of 
 a combination of Chelidonitim and 
 Calcarea muriatica. 
 
 Radkmachkr'S Usk OF Chelidonium 
 and Liq. Calcarice muriat. 
 
 Our author tells us he is con- 
 vinced that there exists in nature 
 a liver disease that can only be 
 cured by a mixture of Chelidonium\ 
 and Liq. Calcarice muriat. 
 
Liq. Calcaricz Murzat. 51 
 This is his formula: — 
 
 R Liq. Calcariae muriat., §ii. 
 Tinct. Chelidonii, 3L 
 
 M. 
 
 He administered fifteen drops in 
 half-a-cupful of water five times a 
 day. With this he cured many 
 cases of grave fevers and hepatic 
 affections that did not mend with 
 either remedy by itself, but he tells 
 us he knows of no reliable or char- 
 acteristic indications for its choice. 
 
 I might add that muriatic acid 
 
 once had a seemingly well-founded 
 
 reputation as a liver remedy ; and 
 
 some still esteem it highly. 
 5 
 
52 Carduus. 
 
 The Curative Sphere of Carduus 
 
 Marice in LjvER, Spleen, and 
 
 Abdominal Affections. 
 
 Certain remedies have very lim- 
 ited special spheres of influence 
 and our power to cure diseases is 
 largely conditioned by our knowl- 
 edge of such spheres. I am in- 
 creasingly impressed with the 
 importance of knowing where the 
 remedy acts by special elective 
 affinity. As I have dealt with 
 spleen affections by themselves, 
 without making any special refer- 
 ence to Carduus marice (the seeds 
 are the officinal part), I will at 
 once exemplify its action here. 
 
Liver and Spleen. 53 
 
 Enlargement of Liver and 
 
 Spleen Cured by 
 
 Cardnns. 
 
 A young lady, of sixteen sum- 
 mers, was brought to me by her 
 mother on the seventh of Septem- 
 ber, 1887, for severe attacks of 
 vomiting that had lasted for three 
 months. She was often roused 
 rudely from her sleep in the morn- 
 ing with an attack of vomiting. 
 Her constitution had been dam- 
 aged by diphtheria, and eighteen 
 months previously she had had 
 varicella. I treated the case symp- 
 tomatically with great relief to the 
 vomiting, but the pains in the 
 
54 Liver and Spleen. 
 
 abdomen became rather worse than 
 better. 
 
 After I bad given her my old 
 favorite Nat. mur. 6 she was still 
 further improved, but there th< 
 thing still was : I had relieved the 
 symptoms but I had not cured the 
 real primary seat of the same. I 
 then did what might with advan- 
 tage have been done before the 
 treatment was begun, viz : I made 
 a careful physical examination of 
 the bare epigastrium and of the 
 two hypochondria. With what 
 result ? The note in my case book 
 taken at the time will enlighten 
 us ... . " Liver and spleen both 
 very much enlarged so that they 
 seem almost to fill the abdomen." 
 
Carduns. 55 
 
 Here I had to do with the severe 
 and long-lasting vomiting which 
 yielded partially to close symp- 
 tomatic treatment but would not 
 get quite well .... (Oh, how 
 often are we in this unsatisfactory 
 state) ; and a physical examination 
 revealed the reason of my failure. 
 I had treated the case with reme- 
 dies that were homoeopathic to the 
 superficial symptoms, but NOT 
 homoeopathic to the cause of those 
 symptoms; the degree of homoeo- 
 pathicity was not adequate though 
 it went a long way towards it. 
 
 Here I fell back upon my Rade- 
 macherian experience with Car- 
 duus and gave five drops of the 
 matrix tincture in a tablespoonful 
 
56 Liver and Spleen. 
 
 of water, night and morning, and 
 this cured the enlargement both of 
 Spleen and of Liver, and as this 
 enlargement was the cause of the 
 pains and vomiting, of course pains 
 and vomiting likewise disappeared. 
 
 The only further abnormality 
 which I could discover in the young 
 lady after taking the Carduus 
 marice for about five weeks was an 
 indurated condition of a few of the 
 cervical glands of her left side : the 
 side on which she had been vac- 
 cinated; Thuja occidentalis 30, in 
 infrequent doses, cured these and 
 patient has had no vomiting or any 
 of its concomitants since. She 
 continues well to date. 
 
 Although my own prescription 
 
Carduus. 57 
 
 of Carduus was from pure experi- 
 ence, there can be hardly any doubt 
 that an adequate proving would 
 shew its homoeopathicity to the 
 case, inclusive of the enlargements 
 of liver and spleen. 
 
 Riel's proving of Carduus shews 
 it to produce pathogenetically : 
 " nausea, uneasiness, pain, vomit- 
 ing, with inflation of the abdomen, 
 fee." 
 
 The generally improved appear- 
 ance of the young lady after she 
 had been a month under the Car- 
 duus was very striking, and repeat- 
 edly remarked upon, by friends 
 who were not acquainted with the 
 circumstances of her ill-health and 
 its treatment at all. 
 
58 Carduus. 
 
 The kind of liver enlargement 
 wliicli Carduus cures is in the 
 transverse measurement. 
 
 By way of comparison I will now 
 quite shortly exemplify the kind of 
 enlargement of the liver which is 
 cured by Chelidonium\ it will be 
 seen that the comparison is crude 
 and mechanical, yet withal, I sub- 
 mit, not without practical value. 
 
Chelidonium. 59 
 
 Enlargement of the Liver in 
 
 the Perpendicular Line 
 
 cured by Chelidonium. 
 
 An independent gentlemen of 
 thirty, usually resident in Paris, 
 came over to London to consult 
 me in the early part of the year 
 1886, and that for his liver and 
 for dyspepsia. He had twice had 
 jaundice in previous times. His 
 symptoms were waterbrash, indi- 
 gestion, constipation, attacks of 
 intra-abdominal chilliness ; he was 
 very dusky, his urine had a strongly 
 urinous smell. His liver reaches 
 almost up to the right nipple. 
 
60 Perpendicular Line. 
 
 An ounce of the tincture brought 
 the liver back to the normal; the 
 dose was five drops in water, two 
 or three times a day, and some- 
 times once a day. But altogether 
 he consumed nearly an ounce. 
 
 This is the kind of hepatic 
 enlargement which Chelidonium 
 rights in small material doses. But 
 it did not restore the patient to 
 complete health; why? For the 
 simple reason that the increase in 
 the perpendicular measurement of 
 the liver was only a part of his 
 complaint, the other bearings ol 
 the case being foreign to my pres- 
 ent thesis. Suffice it to say that 
 his liver was cured by the Cheli- 
 donium, and patient continues well 
 
Organ Remedy. 61 
 
 in these (and now in the other) 
 respects to the present time. 
 
 It is well to realize that an organ- 
 remedy while capable of cnring an 
 organ-disease, and all the concomi- 
 tant S}^mptoms which arise from 
 the organ-disease, nevertheless can 
 in the nature of things not cure 
 the concomitant symptoms in the 
 patient when these symptoms stand 
 in no nexus with such organ-dis- 
 ease. Thus I treated a young lady 
 for a liver disease and gave her 
 successively Cardials, Chelidoninm, 
 Natrnm sulphuricum, Taraxacum. 
 
 She had a mapped tongue and 
 vomiting, with headaches and 
 squinting. The liver was reduced 
 to its right dimensions and the 
 
62 Perpendicular Line. 
 
 vomiting was cured, but the map- 
 piness of the tongue remained, and 
 patient did not feel well. But 
 the tongue became normal after a 
 month of Thuja 30. She had 
 headaches which she herself termed 
 bilious and the others neuralgic, and 
 there was a third kind of headache 
 called by another name and which 
 seemed distinctly connected with 
 the squinting. The bilious head- 
 aches ceased after the use of the 
 before-mentioned hepatics; the neu- 
 ralgic headaches continued till after 
 the Thuja, and disappeared simul- 
 taneously with the mapped state of 
 the tongue. The squint-headaches 
 she still gets, and remedies like 
 Glonoin and Gelsemium do them 
 good. 
 
Appropriation Paracehi. 63 
 
 From these considerations it is 
 manifest that there are cases that 
 cannot possibly be cured by one 
 remedy and inasmuch as the symp- 
 toms form part respectively of 
 groups of different causations, cov- 
 ering the totality of all the symp- 
 toms present in the patient would 
 be a useless and fruitless task. 
 Hence it is that Rademacherian 
 organ-testing helps me so much in 
 my e very-day practical clinical life; 
 for, if I cure an organ with its 
 Appropriation Paracehi, and cer- 
 tain symptoms go while others 
 remain I am enabled slowly to un- 
 ravel the most complex groups of 
 symptoms and finally find a simile 
 or even the simillimum of the 
 ground-evil. 
 
64 Organ States. 
 
 The adage Naturam morborum 
 ostendunt curationes also comes in 
 here as an auxiliary. With me it 
 is an axiom to relieve uncomfort- 
 able or dangerous organ-states with 
 simple organ-remedies as promptly 
 as possible, leaving the more re- 
 mote and deeper- going to be after- 
 wards considered, and treated, if 
 possible, with its pathological si- 
 millimum, or else astiologically , say 
 according to Hahnemann in his 
 Coethen phase. 
 
Cardials. 65 
 
 Carduns Maria in its Relation 
 with Liver and the Skin. 
 
 Perhaps it would be more correct 
 to think of the matter as twigs of 
 the same branch. Thus in my 
 small work on the Skin* I men- 
 tion the seeming connection be- 
 tween the cutaneous surface of the 
 sternum and other internal affec- 
 tions, notably of the left lobe of the 
 liver therewith. 
 
 Subsequent experience has 
 taught me that although the 
 Carduus cures these cases very 
 prompt^ and indeed brilliantly, 
 
 * ' ' Diseases of the Skin from the Organismic 
 Standpoint . ' ' — London , 1 886 . 
 
66 " Sternal Patch." 
 
 still the cutaneous eruption is apt 
 to recur. In support of this con- 
 nection; or, perhaps, it might be 
 wiser to say concomitancy, I there 
 give some Carduus cases thus :— 
 
 The u Sternal Patch." 
 
 One often meets with liver affec- 
 tions connected with cutaneous 
 manifestations. 
 
 I would like particularly t o refer 
 to a patch of eruption on the skin 
 covering the lower part of the 
 sternum which I have several times 
 found co-exist with heart disease 
 and swelling of the left lobe of the 
 liver. In my case-takings r call it 
 the " sternal patch." 
 
Carduus. 6j 
 
 I have four such cases in my 
 mind at this moment, the first I 
 will narrate is that of a mayor of a 
 large town in the north : — He had 
 a patch of brownish eruption on 
 the sternal portion of thorax of the 
 size of a woman's palm; with it 
 were associated an enlarged liver 
 and a cardiac affection evidenced 
 by palpitation, systolic murmur, 
 and general uneasiness. He came 
 to town to see me at odd intervals 
 for about two years, and was then 
 discharged cured. He has passed 
 under my observation since, but 
 though his liver gives no trouble 
 the same cannot be said of his skin, 
 and he has moreover pyorrhoea 
 alveolai'ts. 
 
68 " Sternal Patch." 
 
 I treated him antipsorically and 
 organopathically, the most notable 
 benefit being derived from Carduus 
 maricz in five drop doses of the 
 strong tincture given three times a 
 day. 
 
 The second I remember was a 
 Manchester merchant, with the 
 same kind of cutaneous patch on 
 the sternum, and very notable 
 heart trouble with arcus senilis as 
 a concomitant. Here the ease and 
 comfort brought by the Carduus 
 maricz were very striking. Under 
 date of January 31, 1883, I find in 
 my case book these words of the 
 enthusiastic patient — "It had a 
 most marvellous effect, soon made 
 me right; the patch went away 
 
Carduus. 69 
 
 in a fortnight; had had it for 
 years." 
 
 This gentlemen has remained 
 under my care, calling upon me at 
 odd times when in town, and dur- 
 ing the past two years has had 
 besides the strong tincture of Car- 
 duus, Bellis pe remits 1, Attrum 
 Metallicum 4, Vanadium 6, and 
 Acidum oxalicum 3*, and some 
 other remedies, and I consider him 
 vastly improved, and his life — 
 speaking commercially — worth 40 
 per cent, more than previously. 
 
 The third case was that of a 
 New York merchant, who suffered 
 from liver and had come over to 
 Europe to consult a physician, as 
 he seemed to get no better from 
 
7<3 Carduus. 
 
 the treatment of his New York 
 advisers. I found his liver very 
 much enlarged, and also the before- 
 mentioned sternal patch of skin- 
 disease. I gave him Carduus in 
 like dose to the foregoing, and he 
 came in a week declaring himself 
 quite well. I advised him to re- 
 main awhile under observation, to 
 see if the cure proved permanent, 
 but he hurried out of my room in 
 great glee, and I never saw him 
 again. 
 
 The fourth case in which I found 
 the sternal patch and enlarged 
 liver, giddiness, and palpitations 
 of the heart was that of a London 
 lawyer. Here the liver got well, 
 and the heart too, together with 
 
( l Sternal Patch? ' 7 1 
 
 the giddiness, but it needed a course 
 of antipsoric treatment to finish 
 the cure of the patch of diseased 
 skin. I might say the same of a 
 fifth case, an officer in the Royal 
 Navy, where this patch co-exists 
 with hypertrophied liver, and in 
 which the affair has a specific air 
 about it, probably inherited, and it 
 may be that when Sarcognomy is 
 better understood, and when the 
 relations of the various cutaneous 
 regions will be recognized as con- 
 stituting the ver}^ base of medi- 
 cal and medicinal diagnosis, this 
 sternal patch will be understood to 
 indicate " liver and heart." 
 
 But the following Case cured 
 by Carduns is also instructive in 
 
72 Carduus. 
 
 considering its relationship to skin 
 and liver. 
 
 A city merchant, thirty years of 
 age, unmarried, came to me in 
 May, 1888, for windy dyspepsia, 
 the probable ground-work of which 
 proved to be an enlargement both 
 of liver and spleen, and he had 
 amongst other things very numer- 
 ous sebaceous cysts strewn about 
 his body, looking for all the world 
 like the malva seeds (cases), chil- 
 dren call cheeses. 
 
 At first I gave Ceanothus Amer- 
 icanus, believing it to be primarily 
 a spleen affection, and then Pul- 
 satilla, but they did no great good; 
 when Carduus, given for a little 
 
Carduus. 73 
 
 over a month, brought the liver 
 back to the normal and all the wee 
 wens were gone. 
 
 The enlargement of the liver 
 and the wens disappeared simul- 
 taneously, but the genuinely causal 
 nature of both was neither hepatic 
 nor cutaneous : That was scrofula. 
 But as scrofula can only be treated 
 in its manifestations, he who treats 
 such manifestations successfully 
 cures it. The general improve- 
 ment under Cardials was most 
 striking and lasting: patient got 
 quite well and has since happily 
 married. 
 
 E. Stahl speaks in his Disserta- 
 tions most highly of Carduus in 
 those inflammations of the chest 
 
74 Carduus. 
 
 which are accompanied by gall 
 fevers, and it was from him that 
 Rademacher first learned its nse 
 and never ceased to prize it, nota- 
 bly in blood spitting from liver and 
 spleen engorgements. No remedy, 
 he declares, in our whole drug 
 store can compare to Carduus 
 when there are stitches in the side 
 with bloody expectoration. He 
 recommends his readers to note 
 well where the last trace of pain is 
 felt as it dies away, as that is 
 likely to be the primary seat of the 
 real disease. 
 
My r tea Cerifera. 75 
 
 Case of Jaundice in a New- 
 born Babe Cured by 
 Myrica Cerifera. 
 
 An able accoucheur attended a 
 lady who bore a jaundiced babe; 
 said he, "I cannot give that wee 
 thing any medicine, so } t ou had 
 better send for your homoeopath 
 (meaning me), as he can give some 
 of his 'pips'!'' This was done 
 and pilules of Myrica cerifera 3 X 
 (crushed into a powder and rubbed 
 on the baby's tongue) rapidly 
 cured him, and he at once began 
 to put on flesh, and has thriven 
 ever since. Before taking the 
 Myrica he was very weedy, thin, 
 and leathery-looking. 
 
 Myrica cerifera is one of the 
 
76 Mynca Cerifera. 
 
 very valuable additions to our 
 materia medica that have come to 
 us from America. I have often 
 used it in liver disease, notably in 
 bad cases of jaundice, with striking 
 success; it produces jaundice in 
 the healthy pathogenetically, and 
 is very searching in its action. It 
 was the great American Samuel 
 Thomson, the botanic practitioner, 
 who brought it into notice. A pale 
 green wax is obtained from its 
 berries, and hence it is called ceri- 
 fems, or wax-bearing. Its powdered 
 bark was Thomson's " canker 
 powder," and he advised it in all 
 discharges from the mucous sur- 
 faces, especially in leucorrhoea, 
 dysentery, and nasal catarrh. 
 
Myrica Cerifera. 77 
 
 Dr. Leland Walker's proving, 
 as given in " Hale's New Rem- 
 edies," shews an accurate picture of 
 severe catarrhal jaundice ; we are, 
 therefore, on indisputably scientific 
 ground when we prescribe Myrica 
 for catarrhal jaundice. No wonder 
 that the old American botanists 
 practised w r ith so much success. 
 That Thomson was a close and 
 accurate observer may be seen 
 from the fact that he commends it 
 to " disengage the thick viscid 
 secretions of the mucous mem- 
 brane," for we find Walker's patho- 
 genetic Myrica-catarrh was of the 
 same viscid quality ; he says : 
 " throat and nasal organs filled 
 with an offensive tenacious mucus." 
 
78 Leptandra. 
 
 IvEPTANDRA VlRGINICA 
 
 Is another valuable contribution 
 from America, effecting the liver, 
 mucous membrane, lungs, and 
 pleura. Roughly , it is the mercury 
 of the eclectics. It has never been 
 a favorite of mine, simply because 
 I have not needed it, inasmuch as 
 it closely resembles Cheltdonium 
 in its effects. I once saw Dr. 
 Reginald Jones, of Birkenhead, 
 make a brilliant cure of a severe 
 case of right-sided pneumonia with 
 it — its prompt, decisive, curative 
 action was unmistakeable. 
 
 In the lazy livers of city men, 
 I have used Leptandrin 3 X in six- 
 
Sanguznaria, Podophyllum. 79 
 
 grain doses with great satisfaction 
 to the patients. 
 
 Sanguinaria Canadensis is, in 
 truth, a liver medicine, but not 
 primarily or principally so, and is 
 too great a remedy to be mentioned 
 only in passing. 
 
 Podophyllum peltatum is a 
 great liver remedy, and has been 
 greatly abused. Its use in " torpid 
 liver " is not good practice, and 
 has done much harm. Its true 
 scientific homoeopathic use is in 
 diarrhoea from overflowing bile, 
 with much irritation, and even 
 inflammation of the gut. It once 
 stood me in good stead in a case 
 of diarrhoea that threatened to end 
 fatally — at any rate the allopathic 
 
80 Podophyllum. 
 
 family adviser had informed the 
 lady's husband that he considered 
 the patient would not recover, as 
 nothing would check the diarrhoea, 
 and the lady was seemingly sink- 
 ing. I was telegraphed for and 
 had to travel nearly 200 miles. 
 On arriving, the family physician, 
 although he had given the patient 
 up as past recovery, declined to 
 meet me because of nry homoeo- 
 pathic creed, and this although he 
 professed to be a friend of the 
 family, and only lived two doors 
 off. The stools were foul smelling, 
 hot, bilious, excoriating, and passed 
 out of the anus in a constant 
 dribble. The patient had become 
 too weak to be raised or even 
 adequately helped, and things had 
 
Podophyllum. 81 
 
 o be just left. I studied the ease 
 a short time, and finally decided 
 upon Podophyllum 6. The next 
 evening patient was convalescent, 
 and I returned to town. The 
 cure was complete and permanent. 
 When the family physician had 
 heard of my departure, he returned 
 and very kindly watched the case 
 : or me, still giving my remedy. 
 
 ?Why," said he, "Podophyllum is 
 one of our allopathic medicines it 
 is not a homoeopathic medicine at 
 all; they have stolen it from us." 
 
 The poor ignoramus still knows 
 not that the use of the remedy, i. 
 e., the principle on which it is used, 
 is the point at issue. 
 
8 2 Dr. Grundy. 
 
 It might be asked, why would 
 this dapper medico not meet the 
 writer over a supposedly dying 
 patient, and would yet accept the 
 more humble position of merely 
 watching the case and giving my 
 remedy after I had departed ? 
 
 It was thus : He and another 
 doctor in the place each consid- 
 ered himself the first man there; 
 and if his rival had heard that he 
 had met a homoeopathic practi- 
 tioner in proper consultation, he 
 would have been denounced for 
 unprofessional conduct, and his 
 status lowered in the eyes of 
 dear Mrs. and Dr. Grundy. He 
 declared to the family that he 
 personally should have been de- 
 
Picric Acid. 83 
 
 lighted to have met me, but that 
 he had to consider his own posi- 
 tion, 
 
 Such is medical life here in 
 Kngland to-day. Still, for all that, 
 Podophyllum 6, humanly speaking, 
 saved the lady's life; and I, having 
 done my duty, have therein my 
 reward, and I thank God for the 
 privilege. 
 
 In the debility from jaundice 
 I have found Picric acid very 
 helpful. I have commonly used it 
 in the third dilution. 
 
 I have found the Brassica 
 murialis, which Dr. Heath tells 
 
 me should be called Diplotaxis 
 
 7 
 
84 Gallstones. 
 
 tenuifolia, of good service in the 
 lazy livers of relaxing climates , 
 when patients feel as if they could 
 scarcely crawl about from sheer 
 goneness. It is homoeopathic to 
 such, as I know from a fragment- 
 ary proving made by myself in 
 1874. 
 
 Gallstones. 
 
 In the treatment of gallstones 
 we have to consider the attacks of 
 gall colic and the treatment of the 
 stones themselves when they lie in 
 the gall bladder giving no one any 
 trouble. I have treated gallstones 
 and gallstone colic a good many 
 times with hepatics of various 
 
Gallstones. 85 
 
 kinds, and have found myself best 
 in the painful attacks with Hydras- 
 tis Canadensis, originally given 
 from a suggestion of Dr. Henry 
 Thomas. A great many remedies 
 stand in good repute for the treat- 
 ment of this almost unique com- 
 plaint. I have used as much 
 as ten-drop doses of the strong 
 tincture of Hydrastis, given every 
 half-hour in very warm water, and 
 known it to succeed in a few hours 
 after everything had failed. In 
 one case the patient had lain for 
 40 hours in terrible agony, un- 
 relieved by any known thing. It 
 is odd that people who have been 
 taking Hydrastis, not infrequently 
 think they have been taking 
 
86 Gallstones. 
 
 Opium. After the attack of pain 
 is over, it is best to set about 
 curing the liver itself by a long 
 course of homceopathically-indica- 
 ted remedies, whose names are 
 legion ; for it must be manifest 
 that gallstones are a secondary 
 affection, due to a previous con- 
 dition either of the liver or of the 
 gall, or of the gall-bladder, or of 
 the linings of the ducts. In some 
 cases I have thought the whole 
 state had started originally in 
 catarrhal jaundice. 
 
 My own procedure I will ex- 
 emplify by narrating a case in 
 point at some length. 
 
Gallstones. 87 
 
 Case of Gallstones and 
 Organic Disease of Liver. 
 
 A lady of fifty years of age came 
 under my observation early in the 
 year 1888 with a very muddy 
 complexion, subicteric whites of 
 the eyes. She suffered very much 
 from acidity and also from vomit- 
 ing. 
 
 She told me she had been a 
 sufferer from her liver for many 
 years ; severe bilious headaches 
 and dyspepsia. She had been 
 mercurialized for her liver till all 
 her teeth fell out, and now her 
 digestion had given in almost 
 completely, and she had become 
 so thin that her appearance was 
 
88 Gallstones. 
 
 quite cachectic. She had got so 
 frightened of anything bringing 
 on her attacks of gall colic that 
 she avoided almost every article of 
 food. 
 
 Owing to her great emaciation 
 and trim build I was able to make 
 the diagnosis of gallstones from 
 actually feeling them, a thing I 
 am very rarely able to do myself. 
 The region of the gall-bladder 
 was, however, so tender that a 
 very little feeling with my hands 
 was as* much as she could bear. I 
 treated her for close upon two 
 years, and then she was a plump, 
 bonny woman, enjoying her life 
 and dining out with her friends. 
 Her skin had become compara- 
 
Gallstones. 89 
 
 tively healthy looking, though not 
 as clear as a healthy English 
 lady's generally is. 
 
 I chose the remedies on homoe- 
 opathic indications, and here and 
 there as Rademacher would have 
 done ; and, when I the last few 
 times examined the region of the 
 gall-bladder, I entirely failed to 
 find any stones. 
 
 She had the following remedies 
 seriatim, Ignatio amara i x , Cheli- 
 donium i x and #, Nux vomica / x , 
 Cholesterine 3 X , Hydrastis Can. ( P, 
 Thuja occ. 30, Sanguinaria Can. 0, 
 Carduus maricz #, and Bilirubin. 
 5. All these remedies did their 
 portion of the good, and were given 
 as they were indicated. 
 
90 Gallstones. 
 
 I have rarely seen a more satis- 
 factory cure of a difficult, almost 
 desperate, chronic case, and quite 
 as rarely had a patient, with a 
 worse family history. Which 
 remedy cured the patient ? All of 
 them. 
 
 There is a Carduus case that 
 should have come in earlier on, 
 but I had mislaid the MS., and as 
 it is short I will add it here, and 
 principally because it neatly ex- 
 emplifies the Carduus action. Five 
 years have elapsed since the pa- 
 tient was cured, and there has been 
 no return of any of the symptoms, 
 and he has continued otherwise in 
 uninterruptedly good health. 
 
Hypertrophy. 91 
 
 Hypertrophy of Left Lobe of 
 the Liver; Slight Hyper- 
 trophy of the Heart; 
 Sternal Patch. 
 
 On January 27th, 1885, a j^oung 
 gentleman, twenty-one 3-ears of 
 age, and who had long been ailing 
 of no one seemed to know what, 
 was sent by his father to me " to 
 be thoroughly overhauled and put 
 right." The overhauling disclosed 
 slight enlargement of the heart, 
 considerable enlargement of the 
 left lobe of the liver, and a very 
 prominent sternal patch. Patient 
 complained of suffering a good deal 
 from giddiness. 
 
92 Gallstones. 
 
 5? Carduus marice $, five drops 
 in water night and morning. 
 
 He was discharged permanently 
 cured in six months. During a 
 considerable portion of the time he 
 was taking the Carduus, winch 
 quite set heart and liver right, but 
 the sternal patch I had to cure 
 nosodically, of which . . . une 
 autre fois. I often see members of 
 this gentleman's family, including 
 his parents, and know, as I said 
 just now, that he has continued 
 well ever since. 
 
 We will now return to gall- 
 stones. 
 
 An elderly lady came under my 
 observation early in the summer 
 
Gallstones. 93 
 
 of 1888, for gallstones, character- 
 ized by frequent recurrent attacks 
 of jaundice, colic, and vomiting, 
 with the usual agonizing pains. 
 She was under me a good many 
 month — about eighteen, if I re- 
 member rightly — and then dis- 
 continued her treatment, and has 
 since continued well. I strongly 
 urged her to go on longer, lest 
 there should still be present the 
 remains of the old colic causing 
 stones, but to no avail. Why 
 should I continue taking medicines 
 when I am well? 
 
 She had in succession (and 
 several repeatedly) , Kali bichromi- 
 cum, Carduus maricz, Hydrastis 
 Canadensis, Primus Virginiana, 
 
94 Gallstone Colic. 
 
 Cholesterine, iodoformum^n$i. final- 
 ly Ferrum picricum 3 X . Tlie last 
 named medicine does capital ser- 
 vice in bilious debility. 
 
 Case of Colic from Gallstones. 
 
 A middle-aged gentleman 
 brought bis wife to me three 
 years since to be treated for gall- 
 stones, and the usual attacks of 
 colic with vomiting, that came on 
 at odd intervals, from known and 
 unknown causes. Patient had 
 been long under their own doctor 
 in the country, but to no good 
 purpose; in fact, a chronic pain in 
 the right side had been superadded 
 to the before-mentioned colic at- 
 
Gallstone Colic. 95 
 
 tacks, and patient had lost flesh a 
 good deal. She paid me visits once 
 a month for many months, nntil 
 she was quite well and in a 
 thoroughly thriving condition. 
 
 However, I told the husband 
 that I did not think the biliary 
 calculi were really entirely gone, 
 and that I thought it would be 
 wise to continue with the use of 
 gentle gall-medicines till we had 
 sounder ground for believing that 
 there would be no further relapses. 
 
 But patient seemed and looked 
 in such capital health that there 
 really seemed, from their stand- 
 point, no reason for continuing my 
 treatment, so my warning was not 
 regarded. 
 
g6 Gallstone Colic. 
 
 The remedies that helped sc 
 brilliantly in this case were Hy\ 
 drastts, Carduus, Chelidonium andl 
 Berberis, and two or three others! 
 which I have not noted. 
 
 It must be fully a year since I 
 saw any of the family, but this 
 morning I was prescribing for her 
 brother-in-law, who told me that 
 she is now lying in the country 
 very ill with gallstones, and her 
 attending physicians consider her 
 case hopeless. So all experience 
 goes to show that the after-treat- 
 ment of gallstones should be 
 carried on for a very long time, 
 so as to get rid of the disease 
 altogether. Iyong delay at the 
 printers' enables me to add that 
 
Gallstone Colic. 97 
 
 after having been thus given up, 
 this lady again placed herself under 
 iny care, and has at last completely 
 recovered her health, Euonymin 
 md Thlaspi bursa pastoris 4> hav- 
 ng helped most. 
 
 How the biliary calculi are dis- 
 solved I am unable to say; that 
 they are eventually really and truly 
 ot rid of by dissolution I infer 
 from the fact that the sufferers get 
 well and remain so. 
 
 It might be asked: What is 
 your indication for Bursa pastoris 
 in Gallstones? 
 
 Answer: When the original 
 liver-ailing started primarily from 
 the womb. I will refer to this 
 again. 
 
98 Biliousness. 
 
 Chronic Biliousness and Emaci- 
 ation Cured by Che/zdonzum. 
 
 A strumous gentleman, about 
 thirty years of age, came over 
 from Ireland to consult me with 
 regard to loss of flesh, dyspepsia, 
 and biliousness. He was over six 
 feet in height, and only weighed 
 ten stone. Hair reddish; thorax 
 flat; pronounced venous zig-zag; 
 digestion very weak; poor appe- 
 tite; a brownish rash across the 
 epigastrium; cannot digest vege- 
 tables. 
 
 The state of the liver led me 
 to prescribe Chelidonium 1 ; five 
 drops in water night and morning. 
 
Biliousness. 99 
 
 Under this prescription (with 
 :he same diet, occupation, and 
 lace of abode as previously), he 
 ncreased five pounds in weight in 
 thirty-two days. In six months 
 he had reached 10-stone 12 lbs. in 
 weight, and he long after reported 
 to me that he had " remained in 
 very good health, indeed." Besides 
 3eing for some months under the 
 influence of Chelidonium, he had 
 inter-currently also Badiaga 3* 
 and Psorinum 30, each during one 
 month. 
 
 The state of the skin caused me 
 to interpose Psorinum, and some 
 symptoms of indigestion led me to 
 give the Badiaga. 
 
ioo Enlargement of Liver. 
 
 But the strikingly great ame- 
 lioration set in first under the sole 
 influence of the Chelidonium, but 
 this remedy did not extend its 
 influence far enough or wide 
 enough, and hence it had to be 
 supplemented by the other two, 
 but with the spheres of action of 
 them we are here not concerned. 
 
 Enlargement of Liver, 
 
 producing Shortness of Breath 
 
 and Palpitation, cured by 
 
 Chelidonium majus 3 X . 
 
 Some years since a retired mer- 
 chant, sixty -eight years of age, 
 consulted me for a supposed affec- 
 tion of his heart. He complained 
 
Enlargement of Liver. 101 
 
 of obesity, fulness in the stomach, 
 violent perspirations on moving 
 about — so much so tbat he was in 
 the habit of changing shirts during 
 the forenoon already; feels puffy 
 on going up a hill ; loses his breath 
 from the stomach on the least hurry. 
 Has a fresh healthy look. No ar- 
 cus senilis. Is very active, and 
 takes a good deal of exercise. 
 
 After taking twenty drops of 
 Chelidonium maj. 3 X per diem for a 
 few weeks I noted, at his dictation: 
 The pufiiness is much better ; I 
 can walk with greater ease ; I feel as 
 if something were gone from me." 
 That is to say, his swelled liver 
 had gone down and there w^as more 
 playroom for his lungs and heart. 
 
102 Enlargement of Liver. 
 
 He weighed 15-stone 9 lbs., and 
 under the action of Chelidonium 
 this came down to 15-stone 6 lbs. 
 
 He afterwards had Chelidonium 
 1, and also Euonymin 3*, and after 
 15 months' treatment he had gone 
 down one stone in weight, and was 
 able to go up hill and upstairs 
 with comfort. 
 
 I saw him a year ago for neural- 
 gia, when Silicea 200 was follow- 
 ed by the disappearance of the 
 neuralgia. 
 
Gallstone Colic. 103 
 
 Case of Gall Colic cured by 
 Myrica Cerifera 3 X . 
 
 In the year 1889 a lady of some 
 30 odd years of age came to con- 
 sult me for her liver. She seemed 
 healthy and bright, but severe 
 pains in her right side, pyrosis, 
 and certain brown patches on her 
 skin clearly implicated the liver. 
 Patient took for a month Cheli- 
 donium <P with distinct benefit. She 
 afterwards had Ignatia amara 1 
 and subsequently Hydrastis Can. 0, 
 and both with some considerable 
 benefit. 
 
 She came then to town to see me, 
 when I again failed to find any- 
 
104 Myrica Cerifera. 
 
 thing to account for her dyspepsia, 
 though the pain I could trace 
 clearly to the gall-bladder. 
 
 After taking Myrica cerif. 3 
 
 x 
 
 > 
 
 five drops in a table-spoonful of 
 water, for some weeks, I received 
 a very grateful letter from her, in 
 which she says : " That medicine 
 has done me a great deal of good; 
 I have lost all pain in my side, 
 and have had only one headache, 
 and no indigestion, and I walk six 
 miles a day/' 
 
 What the exact state of the gall- 
 ducts was of course I could not 
 tell ; I could not feel any calculi ; 
 none had ever been passed, she 
 thought. 
 
Right Organ Remedy. 105 
 
 Although Chelidonium and Hy- 
 drastis both did much good, it was 
 the Myrica that really hit the mark 
 curatively. 
 
 When a patient gets the right 
 organ-remedy it is often really 
 astonishing how their leeling of 
 bien-etre is augmented: they not 
 only become well, they very em- 
 phatically feel it; they are, as it 
 were aggressively well. 
 
 Of course, a good complexion 
 means health, more or less, but the 
 liver is very specially involved in 
 producing a clean skin and clear 
 complexion; and I propose by- 
 and-bye to dilate upon this point 
 
lo6 laivny Skin. 
 
 somewhat, as I consider it impor- 
 tant.* 
 
 Case of Tawniness of Skin, 
 
 Bronchial Catarrh, 
 
 and Cough. 
 
 The tawny skin is met with in 
 greatest perfection in those who 
 have lived in hot countries; and 
 where this dirty-looking dinginess 
 of the skin is not from constitu- 
 tional disease, or inherited from 
 phthisically-disposed parents * it is 
 quite amenable to treatment. The 
 tawny discoloration can be more or 
 less removed. This tawniness I re- 
 
 *See, on this subject, my "Five Years' Ex- 
 perience in the New Cure of Consumption." 
 
Tawny Skin. 107 
 
 gard as chronic subicterism, and, 
 indeed, the anti-icterics cure such 
 cases beautifully. They generally 
 take a good deal of time to be 
 really and permanently cured, and 
 a whole series of such remedies 
 have to be brought into play in 
 succession, one after the other, to- 
 gether with here and there an 
 inter-current nosode ; but at times 
 they will mend quickly from one 
 or two remedies only. 
 
 Thus at the beginning of the 
 current year a city merchant, fifty- 
 five years of age, came to consult 
 me for a cough, with a bronchial 
 catarrh. The tawniness of his skin 
 was very marked, and this he at- 
 tributed to a twenty years' resi- 
 
108 Tawny Skin. 
 
 dence in Africa. The cough was 
 habitual, and worse in the evening. 
 There are a good many crescentic 
 cutaneous efflorescences on his 
 chest. 
 
 iVo months of Hydrastis Cana- 
 densis <I>. 
 
 He took altogether just an ounce, 
 in small material doses. Cured the 
 cough; reduced the catarrh of the 
 bronchial lining to a minimum; 
 and very materially lessened the 
 tawniness of his skin; many of his 
 friends remarking upon the very 
 striking improvement in his seem- 
 ingly dirty complexion. I should 
 have followed up with some three 
 or four other anti-icterics, but the 
 gentleman considered he was well 
 
Skin and Liver. 109 
 
 enough, and would not come any 
 more, even " please his wife." 
 
 The Complexion of the Skin in 
 
 its Relation to Liver 
 
 Affections. 
 
 That the complexion is more or 
 less modified in certain affections 
 of the liver is pretty patent to all 
 the world, and the least observant 
 readily remarks that " So-and-so's 
 liver cannot be right." Neverthe- 
 less, when people's skins are in an 
 unhealthy state the}^ commonly 
 treat the skin, or go to a skin 
 doctor who is pretty sure to regard 
 his specialty as the first, and treats 
 
I io Skin and Liver. 
 
 the skin, generally cPen face, with 
 washes and ointments and the like. 
 
 I have tried to combat this view 
 in my " Diseases of the Skin from 
 the Organismic Standpoint/' but, 
 I am afraid, with too little success. 
 
 The skin gets its life from with- 
 in ; it is fed from within from the 
 blood, and it is from within that a 
 good complexion must be obtained. 
 One cannot make an unhealthy 
 skin healthy by any washes or 
 ointments whatsoever. 
 
 I have preached this doctrine 
 before and oft, but few will listen, 
 and hence I am going to preach 
 
Varicose Vein. in 
 
 it again, so that I may at least be 
 able to say dixi et animam meant 
 salvavi. 
 
 Take a person whose skin is 
 jaundiced. Does anyone propose 
 to wash the yellow skin white? 
 
 And if not, why not? It were 
 almost as rational as to try to get 
 a good complexion from any pow- 
 ders and washes whatsoever, and 
 yet the deluded apply such things 
 daily in faith believing. 
 
 Large Varicose Vein; Enlarge- 
 ment of liver. 
 
 It might be wondered at, that I 
 
 hould give a case of varicosis in a 
 
 work devoted to the main diseases 
 
ii2 Varicose Vein. 
 
 of the liver, but, as a matter of fact, 
 the case is so unique that I add it 
 here lest it be lost, and because I 
 hardly know where it would fit in 
 better. 
 
 At the beginning of 1889, a 
 young lady was brought to me by 
 her mother for a large varicose 
 vein running from her right 
 shoulder, over the right clavicle, 
 and across the upper half of the 
 right side of the chest. It varied 
 in size somewhat, and at its largest 
 was about the size of an ordinary 
 quill. 
 
 Being great society people this 
 vein cast quite a shadow over their 
 lives, it being " quite impossible, 
 you know, to dress." 
 
Varicose Vein. 113 
 
 One sees the oddest things in the 
 way of varicose veins in the lower 
 half of the body, but not very often 
 in the upper, as gravitation is 
 enough to empty them when they 
 are higher up. 
 
 All kinds of treatment had been 
 applied, or applied to, and quite 
 lately the vein had been treated 
 by that wonderful cure-nothing — 
 electricity. 
 
 I reasoned thus : Veins that 
 dilate in that manner, steadily, 
 slowly, increasingly, must do so 
 from an obstruction in their pro- 
 gression heartwards, just as the 
 little rivulets higher up the stream 
 must fill up when the stream is 
 dammed up lower down. 
 
H4 Varicose Vein. 
 
 From a rather careful physical 
 survey of the parts involved, I 
 found the liver very large — indeed 
 huge, which was probably ac- 
 counted for by the fact that patient 
 had thrice had ague, or else three 
 attacks of the same. Her skin 
 was dirty dingy-looking, and the 
 portion covering the lower end of 
 the breast bone studded with wee 
 flat warts, and the degree of 
 anaemia was considerable. More- 
 over, she had a disagreeable cough, 
 and her sleep was not good. 
 
 An ounce of Chelidonium #, 
 spread over eleven weeks, restored 
 the liver to its normal size, and 
 the varicosis had almost entirely 
 
Gallstones. 115 
 
 disappeared, so that patient had 
 again taken to evening dress — 
 respectively, undress. Her skin 
 at the same time became clearer, 
 and her blood of evidently better 
 quality. 
 
 Case of Gallstones. 
 
 The wife of a well-known clergy- 
 man came under my observation 
 on the 12th of June, 1889, for gall- 
 stones. Competent medical men 
 had attended her in these attacks, 
 and had diagnosed gallstones. 
 Patient had turned fifty, and is the 
 mother of many children. Her 
 attacks began with sharp agonizing 
 pains in the pit of the stomach, 
 
 extending to the arms, and with 
 9 
 
n6 Gallstone and 
 
 them severe vomiting; her breath 
 is very short ; her bowels are cost- 
 ive, and she is a martyr to flatulent 
 dyspepsia. 
 
 Being a rich woman, she had 
 sought the best advice in London, 
 but to no avail. Her physicians 
 had stated that nothing more 
 could be done. Her lower extremi- 
 ties had begun to swell, and this, 
 coupled with a loss of flesh, dys- 
 pnoea, and a very darkly icteric 
 coloration of the skin, seemed to 
 corroborate the given prognosis, 
 and the more so as patient's able 
 physicians had long tried their 
 best with such remedies as are 
 current in the orthodox school of 
 medicine. 
 
Dyspepsia.. 117 
 
 But knowing well their poverty 
 in remedies, and in knowledge of 
 remedies, I set about treating this 
 lady precisely as if she had never 
 had any medical treatment at all. 
 
 Thirteen months later, while I 
 am actually writing these notes, 
 she is plump, healthy looking, and 
 touring with her husband in Scot- 
 land, and she has had no pains at 
 all for just eleven months. Friends 
 who have not seen her for some 
 time barely able to recognize her 
 because of her changed appearance. 
 
 Her remedies were Hydrastis 
 Canadensis, Bryonia alba , Thuja 
 Occident., Helonium, Strophanthus, 
 and intercurrently, for far-reaching 
 
n8 Cholesterinum and 
 
 constitutional effects, two common 
 nosodes in high dilutions. 
 
 The change in this lady's dis- 
 position is rather remarkable, as 
 from being dull, taciturn, unen- 
 gaging, and almost socially un- 
 civil, she has become bright, affable 
 and chatty. The fact is, our 
 brightness and chatty sunniness 
 in our social life do verily depend 
 much upon the liver. 
 
 Cholesterinum in Tumours of 
 Liver. 
 
 This is obtained from gall ; I 
 believe from that of the bullock. I 
 learned its use of the late Dr. 
 Ameke, of Berlin, author of the 
 
Liver Tumour. 119 
 
 " History of Homoeopathy," trans- 
 lated into English by (alas, also the 
 late) Dr. Alfred Drysdale, some- 
 time of Cannes. 
 
 Ameke claimed to have derived 
 much advantage from its use in 
 cancer of the liver. This is a 
 weighty statement, and is true. I 
 believe I have twice cured cancer 
 of the liver with it ; and in obstin- 
 ate hepatic engorgements that, by 
 reason of their obstinacy, make 
 one thing interrogatively of cancer, 
 the effects of Cholesterine are very 
 satisfactory; at times even strik- 
 ing. 
 
 I commonly use the 3 X trit. in 
 six-grain doses three times a day, 
 but this will here and there act 
 
120 Cholesterinum and 
 
 very violently, and when this hap- 
 pened I have found the third cen- 
 tesimal trituration effective. 
 
 Sometimes one meets with cases 
 in which there appears to be a 
 semi-malignant affection, involving 
 the left lobe of the liver, and what 
 lies between it and the pylorus and 
 the pancreas, and here Cholesterine 
 3 X and lodoformum 3 X , in four- 
 hourly alternation, have several 
 times rendered me sound service. 
 
 I may relate one such. Sum- 
 moned 60 miles into the country 
 late one afternoon, to a supposedly 
 dying lady of 60 odd years of age, 
 I found her icteric, vomiting, 
 bathed in cold perspiration, very 
 
Liver Tumour. 121 
 
 thin, debile ; the pulse small and 
 weak, and patient seemingly almost 
 moribund. Nothing would stay 
 on the stomach. The seat of the 
 affection was the left lobe of the 
 liver, extending to the left and 
 towards the navel. That there 
 were gallstones is probable, but, 
 quite outside of the acute attack, 
 there was a chronic affection of 
 some kind in the region just 
 named, evidenced by swelling and 
 tenderness. 
 
 Kalibich. 5 relieved; Cholesterine 
 3 X and Iodof. 3 x cured in a month, 
 and, the case being of long stand- 
 ing, the cure converted several 
 families to the contemned pathy 
 of Samuel Hahnemann. 
 
122 Cholesterinurn. 
 
 But, allowing for all doubtful- 
 ness and vagueness in what I here 
 relate, Cholesterine is my sheet- 
 anchor in organic liver disease in 
 which the commoner hepatics — 
 Chelid. , Carduus, Myrtca, Kalibich., 
 Merc, and Diplotaxis tenuifolia 
 have failed. 
 
 I do not think that Chlosterine 
 has any influence upon the u dis- 
 position" to cancer, but it acts by 
 reason of its elective affinity for 
 the seat of the disease ; it effects 
 therefore not a cure in the Hun- 
 ternian sense, inasmuch as it only 
 gets rid of the product of the dis- 
 ease, but that is something, as 
 there is then a temporary cure, 
 which under favorable circum- 
 
Cholesterinum. 123 
 
 stances may become permanent 
 proof of which permanence of cur- 
 ative results I will presently ad- 
 duce. In this case the cure has 
 proved to be permanent, as now 
 (two years since the lady is in 
 capital health, and on a visit to 
 her daughter in the North of 
 England. 
 
124 Curing the "Incurable" 
 
 Curing the Incurable — The 
 Insolence of Ignorance. 
 
 "Le cancer est incurable parcequ' on ne le 
 guerit pas ordinairement; on ne peut le guerir 
 puisqu 'il est incurable, done quand on le guerit 
 e'est qu'il n' existait pas." — Duparcque. 
 
 The saying of Duparcque which 
 stands at the head of this', pithily 
 puts the whole question; the thing 
 has not changed, dest alors comme 
 alors. 
 
 This I will dwell upon very 
 briefly now, and at the same time 
 bear the very highest testimony 
 
The Insolence of Ignorance. 125 
 
 to the virtues of Cholesterine in 
 cancer of the liver. 
 
 On January 30th, 1889, an 
 American gentleman, confessing 
 to sixty-five years of age, and on 
 a visit to his daughter, married to 
 an English clergyman in the north, 
 was accompanied to rny rooms by 
 the said daughter, so ill was he 
 that had I thereafter heard of his 
 immediate demise I should have 
 been not in the very least aston- 
 ished. 
 
 The note taken at the time 
 stands thus in my case book under 
 the above date .... Thin, 
 weak, debile; yellow conjunctivae, 
 insomnia ; very nervous and ap- 
 
126 Curing the "Incurable" 
 
 prehensive. Been treated for en- 
 larged liver and had lots of calomel 
 and chloral. His skin is tawny, 
 cachectic. There is a swelling of 
 the liver or of the pancreas — prob- 
 ably malignant disease of the left 
 lobe of the liver. Always suffered 
 from dyspepsia. Been a great 
 ocean traveler. " I am very fond 
 of salt, and eat a great deal." Is 
 a practical teetotaler. Bones of 
 the fingers very knobby. He is 
 a spring-and-fall ailer. Has lost 
 a stone weight since November. 
 Never been ill but ailing, and has 
 taken much medicine: bromides 
 and chloral, urethran. Very chilly. 
 He is very ill. Urine normal. Has 
 had ague, ond been twice vac- 
 cinated. 
 
Cholesterme. 127 
 
 I ordered him six grains of 
 the third decimal trituration of 
 Cholesternium every four hours, 
 and requested him to call in a few 
 days. The married daughter de- 
 manded my candid opinion, and I 
 said it was, in my judgment, can- 
 cer of the liver, when she informed 
 me that that was the unanimous 
 opinion of all their medical advisers 
 the most trusted of whom were 
 quite sure the lethal end was not 
 far off. 
 
 That would also have been my 
 opinion had I not seen Cholesterme 
 bring back hope in several desper- 
 ate cases of cancer of the liver. I 
 therefore felt warranted in stating 
 that I thought our remedies care- 
 
128 Curing the "Incurable." 
 
 fully and persistently applied might 
 yet cure him. In a few days 
 patient returned to me in company 
 with his daughter, and I hardly 
 like to say what the change was, 
 so great was the amelioration. He 
 looked vastly improved and walked 
 firmly, and indeed already con- 
 sidered himself on the high road 
 to recovery, almost wondering what 
 all the fuss had been about. 
 
 When Mr. D. R. had retired, 
 his daughter very anxiously said, 
 "What do you think, now?" I 
 said I had not altered my opinion; 
 and that the improvement was due 
 to the remedy and not natural 
 recovery, and that the said improve- 
 ment would have to be followed 
 
Cholesterine. 129 
 
 *■ 
 up with close scientific treatment 
 
 which might, and indeed most 
 
 likely would, result in a positive 
 
 nd direct art-cure. I also tried to 
 explain that we had begun success- 
 fully and rapidly to deal with the 
 product of the disease, and that 
 done we could proceed to deal with 
 the disposition thereto. I ordered 
 patient to go on another few days 
 with the prescription which I had 
 
 iven to him at first {Cholest.,) and 
 then to report himself to me. 
 
 In about half an hour thereafter 
 the daughter returned with her 
 husband, and the latter almost flew 
 at me in very rage. u What," said 
 he, "do you mean to tell me that 
 
130 The Insolence of Ignorance. 
 
 my wife's father has cancer?" 
 "Yes." "And that you are going 
 to cure him?" "Yes. I think I 
 shall, but I am not sure." Here- 
 upon he raised his voice somewhat 
 and repeated his questions so offen- 
 sively that I turned away from 
 him and he left. I have never seen 
 or heard of any of them since; nor 
 have I ever since seen the wife's 
 
 sister, Lady , whom I cured in 
 
 1886 of a thickening of the Cardia, 
 
 but Lady 's cure was a truly 
 
 Hunterian one, and she has been 
 quite well for long. I have been 
 so often amazed at the insolence of 
 ignorance that I not infrequently 
 find it hard to bear with equanimity. 
 Thus here I was positively in- 
 
Job's Comforters. 131 
 
 suited, essentially because I knew 
 more on a given point than certain 
 others, viz., that Cholesterine will 
 at any rate cnratively modify some 
 cases that seem to be hepatic car- 
 cinosis. 
 
 Still, I thank God and take com- 
 fort . . . they know not what 
 they do. 
 
 People who are sick of some 
 chronic disease and are given over 
 to their fate by those who ought at 
 least to have the courage of hope- 
 fulness, find not infrequently their 
 greatest enemies in their nearest 
 relations, who resent efforts at cure. 
 These Job's comforters seem to re- 
 gard determined efforts to cure 
 
 their friends as personal insults. 
 10 
 
132 Hopeless Case. 
 
 This phenomenon I have observed 
 so often that I have wondered what 
 the explanation thereof might be : 
 in nltimate analysis it wonld seem 
 to be hnman vanity. They have 
 pronounced the case hopeless, and 
 therefore it is so and not otherwise. 
 
 Ubi morbus ibi remedium. 
 
 This idea is very old, and clings 
 to mankind with wonderful tena- 
 ciousness. On this is founded 
 Ameke's conception which, had he 
 been spared would, I think, have 
 resulted at least in the discovery 
 of notable remedies for which 
 clinical experience would subse- 
 quently have afforded fixed indi- 
 cations. 
 
Liver Tumour. 133 
 
 Tumour of Liver of Great Size 
 Cured by Cholesterinum. 
 
 A country squire nearing seventy 
 years of age came under my obser- 
 vation in the early part of 1889 for 
 a very large tumour clearly con- 
 nected with the left lobe of the 
 liver. Patient was so ill that he 
 reached town with difficulty, and 
 became so weak that it was impos- 
 sible for him to return 
 
 Orthodoxy well represented had 
 given him up; and his profound 
 adynamia and cachectic look war- 
 ranted me in stating that I had but 
 small hope. But he was a plucky 
 
134 Large Tumour. 
 
 fellow — a type of the British aris- 
 tocrat (born to govern and fit 
 therefor: because living out of 
 doors and not reading books — 
 Beaconsfield) and he was willing 
 to obey to the letter. 
 
 I advised him to go to the Grand 
 Hotel and quarter himself in the 
 sunny front high up out of the 
 dirt and din, and there abide. He 
 did so, and a very pleasant abode 
 that is : the sun streaming in ; the 
 quiet; and yet the outlook upon 
 the seething mass below, which 
 keeps from stagnation. 
 
 A homoeopath for half a cen- 
 tury he had boundless faith in 
 Nux vomica, but I told him that 
 
Cholesterine. 135 
 
 I was sure Nux would not cure 
 him, and as this visibly depressed 
 him, I said I would give him my 
 medicine, but in alternation with 
 it he should have his Nux. Hence 
 this was given in alternation with 
 Cholesterine. The tumour slowly 
 disappeared, the liver went down 
 to the state it had been in for forty 
 years, 1. e. the left lobe somewhat 
 bulging, and patient returned to 
 his country seat in about two 
 months, and ever since he is not, 
 as a rule, conscious of possessing a 
 liver at all, though once in a way 
 he feels a little uneasy in the 
 hepatic region. This I know, as 
 patient has long been worried with 
 vesical catarrh, and for this I am 
 now treating him, keeping all the 
 
136 Liver Tumour, 
 
 time a certain amount of attention 
 directed to the hepatic region in 
 case of any further explosion ; for 
 I do not imagine that the cure thus 
 far is a truly Hunterian one. 
 
 True, the tumour is gone and 
 may never recur, and the gentle- 
 man has a very healthy look ; but, 
 after all, the tumour is not itself the 
 disease, but the disease-product. 
 
 I would not be understood to 
 maintain that a tumour which thus 
 goes from drug action on the ubi 
 morbus ibi remedmm idea must 
 necessarily recur, but that it may. 
 But I will continue on this same 
 subject in my next chapter. 
 
 At the time of going to press 
 this gentleman continues well. 
 
Amekean Treatment. 137 
 
 Amekean Treatment oe Hepa- 
 tic Tumours; Heptic Cancer. 
 
 About five years ago, a gentle- 
 man of 67 or thereabouts came 
 under my observation for a swell- 
 ing under the right ribs that com- 
 petent authorities had diagnosed 
 as of a cancerous nature. It had 
 come a good many months subse- 
 quent to an accident: a cab wheel 
 having gone over the body at the 
 part mentioned. He had been 
 under a good West-end homoeo- 
 pathic physician who had agreed, 
 after a close examination, to the 
 diagnosis, and declared positively 
 to the gentleman's wife that he 
 had no hope whatever of curing 
 
138 Amekean Treatment. 
 
 the case, and lie thought it his 
 duty to say so. 
 
 The whole thing was quite cured 
 with the remedies in about a year ; 
 the most striking, palpable result 
 being observed after the use of 
 Cholesterine in different dilutions, 
 though numerous remedies were 
 needed as well, notably Carduus 
 marice 0, Chelidonium majus #, 
 Myrica cerifera 3 X , Iodium 1, Kali 
 bzck. 5, and Nat. mur. 6 trit. 
 
 Five years have elapsed and 
 there has been no recurrence of 
 tumour, and during the whole of 
 the five years the gentleman has 
 only been away from his business 
 for three weeks and that was to go 
 to the seaside last August. 
 
Cholesterine Case. 139 
 
 A few days since I saw his wife 
 on her own account, when she re- 
 ported him " quite well." 
 
 This certainly looks like a Hun- 
 terian cure. I can now report on 
 another and very similar case, as 
 follows : — 
 
 Another Cholesterinum Case. 
 
 Nearly six years ago, indeed a 
 little longer, as it was earty in the 
 year 1876, I was required to treat 
 a liver case almost exactly like the 
 foregoing one. But patient was 
 not much over fifty years of age 
 then, and it arose primarily, it was 
 thought, from adhesive peritonitis 
 
140 Cholesterine Case. 
 
 of long before. Eor years this gen- 
 tlemen, a county man, had felt the 
 jolting in a carriage at first un- 
 comfortable, and latterly so painful 
 that he had got into the habit of 
 holding his hand against the 
 swelled part to support it and pre- 
 vent its feeling the effects of the 
 shaking. 
 
 With the sole addition of Me- 
 dorrh. C. the treatment was as in 
 the last case, and of about the same 
 duration, viz., about a year, and 
 with an equally satisfactory result: 
 he got well, and has remained well 
 to date, working very hard almost 
 all the time. This I know, as he 
 has come about four times a year 
 to be assured that his old enemy 
 
Art-Cure. 141 
 
 had been, not merely scotched, but 
 killed. 
 
 In this case I myself originally 
 gave a bad prognosis to the gen- 
 tleman's wife, and it was the 
 Cholesterine that brought life and 
 hope into the matter. It is very 
 difficult to cure a tumid mass of 
 any kind with one remedy: one 
 needs Organ opathy, Homoeopathy, 
 Amekeanism, and empiricism, to- 
 gether with theories no end, if the 
 full extent of the possible is to be 
 attained. 
 
 In my judgment the full range 
 of the art-cure of disease by reme- 
 dies used on scientific lines starts 
 from the due recognition of the 
 primary seat of the disease, and of 
 
142 Art- Cure. 
 
 the remedies that electively affect 
 such primary seat. This, I take it, 
 is the homoeopathic specificity of 
 seat. Experience teaches me that 
 if we are to avoid false issues in 
 treatment we must start with diag- 
 nosing, if possible, where the mal- 
 ady is primarily located. At any 
 rate, I find this the shortest way to 
 curing. If this be neglected we 
 not infrequently cover and cure 
 the symptoms, leaving the malady 
 itself more or less untouched. 
 
 No doubt — and on this I lay 
 some stress— when the symptoms 
 are scientifically (i. e. homoeopath- 
 ically) covered and cured, the dis- 
 ease causing the symptoms is at 
 the same time often radically cured 
 also; but also, and not seldom, the 
 
Covering Symptoms 143 
 
 symptoms are got rid of, but the 
 disease remains. 
 
 It lias been urged that any 
 untrained person can treat homoeo- 
 pathic ally by mechanically cover- 
 ing the symptoms ; and no doubt, 
 this is, to some extent, true. But 
 such cures are not worth much; they 
 do not reach very far, and are only 
 of practical value when the malady 
 and the symptoms are convertible 
 terms. The simillimum of the 
 symptoms may, or may not be the 
 simillimum of the malady ; if of 
 latter, we have an ideal therap}^ 
 beyond which there is nought to 
 be desired ; if of the symptoms 
 only, we are apt to keep on curing 
 our patients till they die. 
 
144 Getting behind Symptoms. 
 
 If homoeopathy is to go on 
 advancing we must face the ques- 
 tion of getting behind the symptoms, 
 so that we may not only treat the 
 symptoms homceopathically, but 
 also the malady in its essence. In 
 other words, it will not suffice 
 to find the simillimum of the 
 symptoms, but that being found, 
 it will be needful to put this perti- 
 nent question : Is this sympto- 
 matic simillimum also homoeo- 
 pathic to the anatomical essence 
 of the malady itself ? 
 
 In the simple and well-defined 
 forms of disease affecting an 
 isolated organ, Paracelsic homoeo- 
 pathy or organopathy is a very 
 
Organopathy. 145 
 
 valuable guide to cure, and helps 
 to define the disease and to fix its 
 cure with the pathalogic simile. 
 
 This results from a recognition 
 that certain organs of the body 
 are, as it were, organisms within 
 the organism ; minor systems with- 
 in the general system. They 
 have special individualism, both as 
 to their functions and as to their 
 diseases. Such an organ is the 
 liver. It can be made ill by the 
 organism, but, in its turn, it can 
 make the organism ill. They 
 act and re-act upon one another. 
 Neither can exist without the 
 other. 
 
 Certain drugs have been discov- 
 ered by man, almost in all places 
 
146 Finding the Remedy. 
 
 and at all times, that have an 
 elective affinity for these organs, 
 and these drngs have some of them 
 received names indicative of their 
 action, hence we have head medi- 
 cines, spleen medicines, liver medi- 
 cines. 
 
 This smail volume is intended 
 to shew that the greater or more 
 common Diseases of the Liver can, 
 for the most part, be readily cured 
 by hepatics or liver medicines. 
 
 Inasmuch as a large number of 
 hepatics are well-known to us, our 
 chief difficulty lies in finding out 
 which remedy will cure a given case. 
 How far I have succeeded in over- 
 coming this difficulty is shewn in 
 
Paracelsus. 147 
 
 these pages, and where I fail, 
 others, beginning where I leave 
 off, may succeed. 
 
 The cure of organ-diseases by 
 organ-remedies is often called or- 
 ganopathy, and this it was that 
 very largely constituted the prac- 
 tice of Paracelsus, and for which 
 he was hounded to death. His 
 success was so great that envy and 
 hatred arose and fiercely attacked 
 him. There can be no doubt that 
 Paracelsus w r as foully muidered by 
 the hired servants of his fellows- 
 practitioners ; and oh ! the number 
 of medical tomtits that have thrown 
 dirt on his memory all through the 
 after-living generations ! 
 
 For all that, his great genius 
 11 
 
148 Paracelsus. 
 
 flames still bright above the hori- 
 zon, lighting up the life-paths of 
 such as have the power to see. It 
 supplies light, but not eyes. 
 
 I would remind those homoeo- 
 pathic practitioners who throw 
 their little handfuls of dirt at Para- 
 celsus that it was he — Paracelsus — 
 who planted the acorn from which 
 the mighty oak of homoeopathy 
 has grown. 
 
 It was just as impossible for 
 Paracelsus to work out a homoeo- 
 pathic equation on the purely 
 scientific ground of drug physiol- 
 ogy or provings as did Hahne- 
 mann, as it was impossible for the 
 farmers in the time of Hahnemann 
 
Elementary Homoeopathy. 149 
 
 to use the steam plough 1. *. it was 
 11 ot there to be used. 
 
 I have long mainted that organ- 
 opathy is elemental homoeopathy 
 — that in the very nature of things, 
 homoeopathy necessarily includes 
 organopathy. 
 
 Paracelsus was an organopath, 
 being the founder of organopathy. 
 I think it most likely that he 
 picked up its elements and ele- 
 mentary principles on his travels, 
 applied them in practice, and 
 having made cures that have rarely 
 been equalled, he systematized it. 
 Personally I acknowledge my great 
 indebtedness to Paracelsus, (largely 
 through Rademacher) with all grat- 
 itude. I am constantly and in- 
 
150 Primary Seat. 
 
 creasingly impressed with the im- 
 portance of ascertaining the exact 
 primary seat of any localised mal- 
 ady, and I have been driven to this 
 by certain of my failures in purely 
 symptomatic treatment. To really 
 and radically heal of disease, one 
 must often dig down and find out 
 where the fons et origo malt is, and 
 to this end Paracelsic organ-testing 
 is of the very greatest service; in- 
 deed it often leads to the most im- 
 portant clinical discovery. And 
 what may the most important clin- 
 ical discovery be? That which 
 necdextrosum, nee sinistrosum leads 
 straight to the goal of every true 
 physician — mastery over disease, 
 z. e., its direct art-cure. 
 
Gallstones and Asthma. i ■ 
 
 Case of Gallstones axd 
 Asthma. 
 
 It must be nearly ten years ago 
 that a widow lad} 7 from abroad 
 came to consult me for asthma and 
 biliary calculi: and I will relate 
 her case, not only because it is 
 apposite as a cure of a liver affec- 
 tion, but because the lady has been 
 more or less within my professional 
 ken ever since, and at this present 
 time she is in very good health, 
 and for long has had neither 
 Asthma nor Gallstone attacks. 
 
 Another point of interest for me 
 lies in the fact that four well- 
 known homoeopathic physicians 
 
152 Gallstones and 
 
 had treated the case during over 
 three years with only indifferent 
 success. They treated the symp- 
 toms without any physical diag- 
 nosis, and after having prescribed 
 for the symptoms and temporarily 
 cured many of them, the patient 
 remained pretty much where she 
 was before. Had they gone into 
 the case they would have found 
 that the bronchial asthma, retch- 
 ing and vomiting had their point 
 de depart in the gall bladder. 
 
 No doubt this had again its 
 origin in the constitutional crasis 
 of the individual, and hence I be- 
 gan the treatment with very infre- 
 quent doses of Psoricum 30. This 
 much lessened the pain in the right 
 
Asthma. 153 
 
 side, and it greatly relieved the 
 cough. Then during about five 
 weeks patient was under the influ- 
 ence of Chelidonium 1, and pain 
 and cough quite disappeared. 
 
 In a fortnight the pain starting 
 from the gall bladder returned, and 
 was accompanted with much retch- 
 ing. Patient was of opinion that 
 the side pain had originally come 
 from taking such quantities of 
 phosphorus for her cough j^ears 
 ago. At any rate, she affirmed 
 that she never felt pain in this re- 
 gion before. 
 
 There is no return of asthma 
 since she left off the Chelidonium. 
 
 I next prescribed Terebinthina 
 
154 Gallstones and 
 
 3 X , four drops in water three times 
 a day. The Tereb. rather upset 
 her at first, and then she got better. 
 
 After this an attack of gall colic 
 came on from exertion. 
 
 Thie duskiness of the skin, and 
 the big brown patches on the fore- 
 head, led me to give Nux. It did 
 much good, and under its influence 
 patient's skin became lighter and 
 cleaner. Then followed Thuja 30, 
 and subsequently at odd intervals, 
 according to the symptoms, Mer- 
 atrius vivus, Antimon. tart, 3, Pul- 
 satilla 3 X , Cholesterine 2, Ipec, 
 Alnus rub., Nat. SuL 6, and Calc. 
 carb. 30. 
 
 But these were mostly for the 
 
Asthma. 155 
 
 gallstones, as there had never been 
 any return of the asthma after the 
 Psoricum followed by the Cheli- 
 donium, and that is more than nine 
 years ago. 
 
 This I consider the more re- 
 markable, as both her own mother 
 and her own son had asthma; and 
 an asthmatic lady, daughter and 
 mother of individuals similarly 
 afflicted, would hardly have a tran- 
 sitory or spurious kind of asthma. 
 
156 Saffron. 
 
 Rademacher's Hepatic. 
 
 Rademacher's liver medicines 
 are Quassia, Chelidonium, Liquor 
 calc. mur., Nux vom., Crocus, and 
 Carduus, though he does not reckon 
 the last-named as solely an hepatic. 
 These remedies have been already 
 sufficiently considered, excepting 
 Crocus and Quassia, and of this 
 latter I have myself no experience, 
 and will therefore pass it by. Of 
 the former I will presently speak. 
 
 Rademacher on the Influence 
 of Saffron on the Liver. 
 
 Crollius, in his treatise, De sig- 
 naturis internis rerum, cites Saffron 
 as a remedy for jaundice. Rade- 
 
Rademacher* s Hepatic. 157 
 
 macher had been treating liver dis- 
 eases with Carduus, and finding 
 the prevailing genius of disease 
 alter (which he recognized from 
 the fact that Carduus had ceased 
 to cure the then prevailing liver 
 affections) , he began to test afresh 
 for the remedy, and believed he had 
 found in it Quassia. 
 
 A man of sixty years of age 
 came under his observation for a 
 painful chest affection, with fever, 
 cough, and bloody expectoration — 
 (we should now call such a case 
 pneumonia, broncho-pneumonia, or 
 pleuro-pneumonia, probably.) 
 
 The action of Quassia was fair, 
 but not so pronounced and rapid 
 as Rademacher was accustomed to, 
 
158 Crocus. 
 
 and hence he concluded that he 
 was not dealing with a real Quassia 
 liver disease. 
 
 Patient took the Aqua quassicz 
 for a week with some obvious bene- 
 fit, when, tiring of its taste, Saffron 
 was added to colour and mask it. 
 Result: rapid and complete cure. 
 
 Subsequent observations shewed 
 that the curative virtue lay in the 
 Saffron, and not in the Quassia. 
 
 Dysenteria Hepatic cured by 
 Crocus. 
 
 Fever, colic, vomiting, rectal 
 tenesmus, slimy, sanguineous, non- 
 foecal motions, easily and promptly 
 
Saffron. 159 
 
 cured with small doses of the tinc- 
 ture of Saffron, because dependent 
 upon a primary affection of the 
 liver curable by Saffron. 
 
 11 In former years I should," says 
 Rademacher, u have rushed into 
 print in the medical journals and 
 proclaimed Saffron as the greatest 
 liver medicine extant, but since 
 Paracelsus has broken my specta- 
 cles I see nature with niy eyes 
 alone, and it is now manifest to me 
 that we cannot ascribe to any 
 organ-remedy whatsoever absolute 
 and unconditional curative power, 
 but that the really clear and 
 obvious revelation of the same 
 depends upon the kind of the 
 epidemic genius of disease that 
 
160 Rademather* s Cure 
 
 happens for the time-being to be 
 prevailing." 
 
 Those who know their Synden- 
 ham will appreciate this. 
 
 Rademacher's Cure of Gall- 
 stones. 
 
 Rademacher's observations are 
 in all cases so reliable that I deem 
 it a nsefnl undertaking to give, in 
 short, the gist of his experience of 
 the medicinal cure of Gallstones. 
 
 Cardmts, he maintains, is facile 
 princeps in the attack; nothing 
 equals it, he says, He was once 
 enabled to recognise the presence 
 of biliary calculi in the following 
 extraordinary manner : — 
 
of Gallstones. 161 
 
 An elderly man, who had form- 
 erly complained of heartburn, ful- 
 ness, and regurgitation after food, 
 was seized with violent colic, and, 
 as all the abdominal remedies were 
 without effect, he concluded that 
 the abdominal affection was symp- 
 tomatic of some other primarily 
 diseased organ. He was sent for 
 at an unusual hour to hear from 
 the good man's wife that a band- 
 age with a knot in it at once 
 stopped the pain. From this he 
 concluded that only a mechanical 
 
 affection could be thus mech anically 
 helped. 
 
 A slight and very peculiar feel- 
 ing alone remained in the region 
 of the gall bladder. Patient was 
 
162 DurantPs Remedy. 
 
 treated during six months with 
 Durand's remedy, and was thereby 
 completely cured of his supposed 
 stomachic affection and of his colic. 
 He remained quite well for twelve 
 years. Then, after this long in- 
 terval, the stony guest again put 
 in an appearance, though under 
 another guise. He again admin- 
 istered Durand's remedy where- 
 upon the troubler ceased and came 
 no more, the patient dying long 
 after at a great age of senile 
 marasm. 
 
 Rademacher relates how the 
 symptoms of pleurisy and even of 
 pneumonia may. be really those of 
 biliary calculi, and he instances 
 the case of the wife, or rather 
 
Sulphuric Acid. 163 
 
 widow of an admiral who was 
 cured of an attack of gallstone 
 colic with Durand's remedy by 
 him, and, being seemingly well, 
 travelled to Berlin, but fell ill of 
 the same ofifection which was mis- 
 taken for pleurisy, and treated as 
 such in the old antiphlogistic 
 fashion with venesection and 
 plasters, and under these the 
 seventy-year old lady died. 
 
 Rademacher cites the case as a 
 warning to the careless or inex- 
 perienced. He then remarks that 
 Sulphuric acid has the power of 
 stirring up biliary calculi to activ- 
 ity. 
 
 Of the tincture of Carduus in the 
 
 attacks of gallstone colic he reccom- 
 12 
 
164 Durances Remedy. 
 
 mends from 15 to 30 drops in a 
 teacupful of water or milk five 
 times a day. 
 
 Mixture of Oil of Terpentine 
 
 and Sulphuric ^Ether, or 
 
 Durand's Remedy. 
 
 Paracelsus says that tlie oil of 
 turpentine was first discovered by 
 the jatro-chemists, and lie strongly 
 recommends physicians to try the 
 curative effects of the oil in diseased 
 human organisms. 
 
 Rademacher remarks, however, 
 that as a rule physicians are more 
 concerned to gain over the patient- 
 world by saying smooth thing to 
 them than with the advancement 
 
Turpentine. 165 
 
 )f the healing art, and hence the 
 *ecommendation was not followed 
 md fell into oblivion. 
 
 Paracelsus affirms that turpen- 
 :ine with the right appropriate or 
 3rgan remedies is helpful in all 
 ^durations. 
 
 Those who know of turpentine 
 only that it is good for tapeworm, 
 and that it, combined with aether, 
 will dissolve gallstones, know but 
 very little of its virtues. 
 
 He thus summarises: "All we 
 can with certainty maintain is, 
 that the symptoms which we 
 ascribe to the presence of biliary 
 calculi are not merely silenced by 
 
1 66 Durand^s Remedy. 
 
 turpentine in aether , but by its 
 long continued use are got rid of 
 so completely that patients remain 
 thereafter free of their troubles for- 
 ever, or, at any rate, for many 
 years." 
 
 He finally remained true, after 
 many trials, to a mixture of sixteen 
 parts of Spirit sulpk. ceth., and one 
 of OL tereb. 
 
 And as to dose : one must begin 
 gently and cautiously with ten, 
 and, in the very sensitive, with 
 five drops of the mixture in half a 
 cupful of water three times a day, 
 and the dose must be slowly or 
 rapidly increased occording to the 
 tolerance of each individual case. 
 
Durand^s Remedy. 167 
 
 ; At first there is often a little 
 'ipain in the liver soon after the 
 dose, lasting a few minutes. This 
 .he declares is desirable, but the 
 dose must not be increased till this 
 pain has not been felt for a few 
 days. Then the urine must be 
 watched, and as soon as the urine 
 ibegins to get darker in colour (in 
 which case the patient at the same 
 time is apt to complain of an un- 
 comfortable sensation in the epi- 
 gastrium), the said mixture must 
 be temporarily stopped and Car- 
 \duus administered till the discom- 
 'fort in the epigastrium has gone, 
 ,'and until the urine has again be- 
 come clear and of the colour of 
 light straw. And then the mixture 
 is to be resumed, but in a small 
 
1 68 Podophyllum. 
 
 dose — smaller than it was when 
 left off, and the dose is not to be 
 too hastily again angmented. 
 
 Chronic Enlargement of the 
 
 Liver cured by Podophyllum 
 
 peltatum 6 X . 
 
 In the month of Jnne of the year 
 1883, a widow lady came under 
 my observation for diarrhoea. It 
 was clearly of hepatic nature, and 
 patient felt as if she were sinking 
 into the earth; icy cold feet; pains 
 in the abdomen; has piles; last 
 year nearly had jaundice. A phys- 
 ical examination revealed chronic 
 enlargement of the liver; the pa- 
 
Chronic Enlargement. 169 
 
 tient looked ill, and in very ill- 
 health. 
 
 With an enlargement of the 
 liver, tenderness of the hepatic re- 
 gion, pains in the abdomen, piles, 
 diarrhoea, and evident Aug eg riff en- 
 sein of the organism, I think the 
 ordination of Podophyllum pelt. 6 X 
 may be fairly called scientific ; in 
 fact, I maintain that the prescrip- 
 tion was demonstrably and strictly 
 scientific. 
 
 It cnred the patient slowly — 
 seven weeks — surely, and perma- 
 nently, and not only subjectively 
 but objectively, for her improved 
 appearance was very pronounced. 
 
170 Why? 
 
 I often wonder in this age of 
 science that its scientific spirit so 
 much neglects the scientific thera- 
 peutics of Samuel Hahnemann, 
 particularly as Hahneman has 
 been so long dead. It cannot now 
 make any difference to him! And 
 faith ! it makes no difference to me 
 either. 
 
 Then why do I stand up for 
 homoeopathy so persistently if it 
 makes no difference to me? 
 
 Why, indeed? 
 
 Only one reason. 
 
 And what might that one reason 
 be? Shall I confess, or let the 
 black secret die with me ? 
 
Homoeopathy True. 171 
 
 Just this: Homoeopathy is true, 
 tliafs all. 
 
 And if true, why do people sneer 
 at it? 
 
 Fools always do sneer at what 
 they do not understand. 
 
172 Modern French Practice. 
 
 Practice of Modern French 
 
 Physicians in the Treatment 
 
 of Hepatic Colic. 
 
 M. Germain See in " La 
 Medecine Moderne" Nr. 6, 1890, 
 treats of this subject, and shows a 
 distinct advance on the common 
 treatment of hepatic colic. 
 
 He notes, that the Salicylate of 
 Sodium is an excellent cholagogue; 
 in watery solution the Salicylate 
 of Sodium augments the biliary 
 secretion, and particularly the 
 watery part of the bile. And 
 further, by a singular coincidence, 
 this remedy, besides its action as 
 
Olive Oil. 173 
 
 a cholagogue, has a powerful anal- 
 gesic action which, is of prime 
 importance in the attack. 
 
 He insists that in prescribing 
 cholagogues great care should be 
 taken in dissolving them in an 
 ample quantity of fluid. 
 
 Rademacher was clearly of the 
 same view, for he gave each dose 
 of Carduus in a teacupful of fluid. 
 
 M. See speaks also with much 
 satisfaction of the free use of Olive 
 Oil in biliary attacks. 
 
 He considers purgatives contra- 
 indicated. He also condemns all 
 substances that lessen the biliary 
 secretion, such as the salts of 
 
1 74 Large and Small Doses. 
 
 potassium, calomel, iron, copper, 
 morphia, atropine, and strychnine, 
 
 But as M. See ignores the 
 double and opposite actions of 
 large and small doses, we can 
 only regard him, in practical phar- 
 macodynamics, as a half-educated 
 man; and this, notwithstanding 
 his pre-eminently leading position 
 in the practice of modern medicine 
 in France. But it is something to 
 find anyone's practice addressed to 
 the causes of the colic, rather than 
 to silencing the pains, which are 
 but effects, and which, being 
 silenced, leave the morbid state of 
 the sufferer as bad or even worse 
 than it was before. 
 
Jaundice. 175 
 
 Remarkable Case of Jaundice 
 
 of Nine Years' duration ; 
 
 Gallstones of Large Size. 
 
 I really finished writing this 
 small treatise on Liver Diseases 
 last autumn, and sent the MS. to 
 the printers, on the day the date of 
 which will be found at the foot of 
 my preface. In this same preface 
 mention is made of a case of 
 chronic jaundice of long duration, 
 which I then feared was hopelessly 
 incurable. This work has been 
 delayed at the printers until now, 
 owing to want of time on ray part, 
 and moreover, I have latterly de- 
 layed it somewhat on purpose, and 
 in order that I ma}^ narrate the 
 
176 Remarkable Case 
 
 before-mentioned case referred to 
 in the preface, in which I reflect 
 upon the treatment of the case fol- 
 lowed by a distinguished represen- 
 tative of old-chool medicine. 
 
 I always hold that adverse criti- 
 cism of co-practitioner's work 
 should be in the abstract, because 
 it is not in any sense a question of 
 persons. I also hold that whoso- 
 ever criticises the work of another 
 adversely, the same is morally 
 bound to point out a better, a more 
 excellent way, if he knows one. 
 
 The plan followed by my pre- 
 decessor in the treatment of this 
 case was to lull the pain with 
 
of Jaundice. 177 
 
 morphia. Now, quite apart from 
 the deteriorating influence of the 
 drug (a question I do not propose 
 here to discuss), it must be mani- 
 fest that the pain arose from the 
 gallstones: and the lulling influence 
 of the morphia not only did not 
 cure, or even tend to cure, but 
 actually tended to prevent nature 
 from helping herself. 
 
 The physician knew perfectly 
 well that he only relieved the pain ; 
 he was quite conscious that it was 
 in no sense a cure. "The thing," 
 said he, u is incurable; the pain is 
 therefore, the legitimate object of 
 palliative treatment." And I quite 
 agree that a physician may not 
 stand by and see pain without 
 
178 Remarkable Case 
 
 taking effective measures for its 
 relief. 
 
 But the patient's life comes frst, 
 not the pain; and therefore, here 
 everything hinges upon the ques- 
 tion of curability or non-curability. 
 Assuming that the case was really 
 and truly incurable by medical art, 
 then, of course, the lulling of the 
 pain by morphia was right and 
 proper, and moreover imperatively 
 demanded on the ground of 
 humanity alone; and where phy- 
 sician cannot cure he is at least 
 bound to relieve pain. I therefore 
 attach no blame to this physician 
 personally, his error lies in his 
 scholastic conceptions of what 
 are the actual possibilities of 
 
of Jaundice. 179 
 
 drugs in the direct art-cure of 
 disease; and in the unquestioning 
 belief that what he and his fellow- 
 believers in school-physic know, 
 covers the entire field of the known 
 and of the knowable, in curative 
 medicine. 
 
 Paracelsus is ridiculed and 
 contemned ; Rademacher is almost 
 unknown in the wider sphere of 
 medicine. Homoeopathy is not 
 within earshot at all, z* e t) in the 
 spheres that are deemed orthodox. 
 It seems very odd, but all that is 
 best in medicine, in so far as it 
 relates to the art of healing is . . . 
 on/side! 
 
 Paracelsus is outsi&z ; Rade- 
 macher is tfz/z'side; Hahnemann is 
 13 
 
180 Remarkable Case 
 
 outsxfe ; the physician who gave 
 morphia for the case under study 
 is . . . inside. 
 
 I will now go on to the case in 
 question by narrating that patient, 
 a married lady, mother of a family, 
 was brought to me by her husband 
 with some difficulty, owing to her 
 great weakness and loss of flesh. 
 
 I noted as follows: — Mrs X., 38 
 years of age, eleven years married, 
 mother of seven children, came 
 under my observation on Septem- 
 ber 29, 1890. During the past 
 three months intensely jaundiced, 
 and is given up as past all hope of 
 recovery. 
 
of Jaundice. 1 8 1 
 
 During the past nine years her 
 doctor has been giving her morphia 
 to ease the pain in the right side, 
 left side, and in the stomach, ab- 
 domen, and hypogastrium respec- 
 tively. At the present time she 
 takes about a dozen quarter-grain 
 pills of morphia a day ; she is 
 emaciated to a painful degree. 
 The spleen is very much hyper- 
 trophied, and extends across to the 
 mesial line and inferiorly down to 
 the crest of the ilium; in fact, it 
 practically fill the left half of the 
 abdomen. It is very tender, and 
 the contours of the big spleen can 
 not only be felt but readily seen, 
 as it rises above the surface. The 
 liver is only very moderately en- 
 larged, about an inch and a half 
 
182 Remarkable Case 
 
 beyond the ribs, towards the epi- 
 kastrium. 
 
 While I am examining her, 
 patient appears very weak and 
 faint, and hardly able to bear the 
 undressing. Her eyes are lustrous, 
 her tongue raw red. Urine is 
 scanty ; loaded with bile ; bowels 
 costive. The region of the gall- 
 bladder and ducts very tender, but 
 the greatest pain is in the pit of 
 the stomach. Catamenia always 
 scanty, and at present stopped. 
 The motions are without bile, and 
 moved with the very greatest diffi- 
 culty. No appetite. In almost 
 constant distress from the agoni- 
 sing pains at the pit of the 
 stomach. 
 
of Jaundice. 183 
 
 Patient had been twice vacci- 
 nated, and years ago had severe 
 ulceration of the womb, for which 
 she lay in bed for three months, 
 and during that period was six 
 times cauterised. The cauteriza- 
 tions, aided by many intro vaginal 
 injections and much lying-up, 
 were followed by the disappearance 
 of said ulcerations. 
 
 I did not really know where to 
 begin at in this formidable case, 
 but in view of the severity of the 
 epigastric pain, jaundice, consti- 
 pation, &c, I ordered Hydrastis 
 Can. #, four drops in a tablespoon- 
 ful of tepid water every four hours. 
 This was the last day of Septem- 
 ber, 1890. 
 
184 Remarkable Case 
 
 October 6th. — The urine has be- 
 gun to improve ; it is more watery, 
 and not quite so full of bile; the 
 motions more natural, but the liver 
 is very distinctly bigger than it 
 was six days ago. I therefore feel 
 justified in going on with the Hy- 
 drastis. 
 
 13th. — Patient's jaundiced skin 
 is not quite so intensely black- 
 yellow ; the pain has altered. There 
 is very distinct, though not great, 
 improvement ; for the first time for 
 very very long her period is full 
 and free, which has much relieved 
 her. The spleen is a trifle smaller; 
 the tongue dry and glazed. 
 
 I find on reference that a few 
 doses of Thuja 30 were given inter- 
 
of Jaundice. 185 
 
 currently on the 6th instant. Con- 
 tinue with both Hydrastis and 
 the Thuja 30. 
 
 20th. — There is no longer any 
 pain in the region of the gall- 
 bladder; patient complains of cold 
 shivers ; liver has gone down in 
 size while the spleen is more 
 swelled and very painful, and 
 patient complains very much of 
 chilliness. 
 
 Ijk. Tc. UrticcB ttrentis 4>, seven 
 drops in water three times a day. 
 
 27th. — No " spasms"; pains in 
 the spleen worse ; the spleen is, 
 however, softer to the feel ; liver 
 larger. To alternate Cardites 
 mar. with the Urtzca ) every three 
 hours. 
 
1 86 Remarkable Case 
 
 Nov. 3rd. — Spleen and liver both 
 bigger, which I take to mean that 
 they are being acted upon by the 
 remedies, particularly as patient is 
 not so chilly and is in less pain. 
 Patient has never ceased to take 
 about a dozen morphia pills every 
 day; some days many more. 
 
 To continue with the Carduus 
 and Urtica. 
 
 12th. — The jaundice is much 
 worse; the pains in the region of 
 the gall-bladder are atrocious. I 
 try to persuade the patient to leave 
 off the morphia, so as to give the 
 remedies a chance, but she appeals 
 to me not leave her unhelped in 
 her agony; I could not resist, and 
 
 
of Jaundice. 187 
 
 so consented to the morphia pills 
 being continued. 
 
 We had made a little progress in 
 the case, but not much, and I 
 therefore made a further and very 
 careful survey of the aetiological 
 history of the case, and came to the 
 conclusion that the whole thing 
 was of uterine origin. 
 
 As I have had a good deal of 
 clinical experience of Bursa pas- 
 tor is, tending to shew that it is a 
 remedy specifically affecting the 
 womb in like manner as Ckelt- 
 donium does the liver, I at once 
 determined to test for the right 
 appropriation uteri, as I conceive 
 Paracelsus or Rademacher might 
 have done. 
 
1 88 Remarkable Case 
 
 I reasoned from the clinical data 
 taken in historic sequence that the 
 primary affection years ago was 
 uterine, and the hepatic affection 
 consecutive thereto, and starting 
 therefrom. I saw clearly that the 
 old ulcerated condition was at the 
 bottom of it, or rather that was as 
 far back as I could get for the 
 present. For although the cause 
 of the ulcers was presumably the 
 fons et origo malt, yet the real dis- 
 ease at present to be grappled with 
 was the jaundice, the gallstones, 
 and the colic. 
 
 In this case getting rid of the 
 primary constitutional cause would 
 not necessarily have mended mat- 
 ters, therefore I started with Bursa 
 
of Jaundice. 189 
 
 pas torts #, five drops in warm water 
 every five hours. 
 
 That was on the 12th, and by 
 the 17th there was a very extra- 
 ordinary change come over the face 
 of the case; indeed it was at first 
 blush almost incredible. There 
 was much less jaundice, the liver 
 had gone down in size almost to 
 normality, and the spleen was fully 
 an inch smaller. Moreover, there 
 was no pain in the liver at all. 
 
 My inkling that the start of the 
 disease of the biliary apparatus was 
 in the womb being thus confirmed, 
 indeed, rendered certain, I con- 
 tinued with the Bursa as before. 
 
 Nov. 24th. — Although there has 
 
190 Remarkable Case 
 
 been no further spasms, there has 
 not been any further progress* 
 patient does not sleep so well; the 
 liver has again begun to enlarge, 
 and there is no further diminution 
 in the size of the spleen. Still, I 
 did not feel justified in leaving off 
 with Bursa, and hence I alternated 
 it with Chelidonium $. 
 
 December. — Patient was very ill, 
 and everybody gave her up, ex- 
 cepting myself. I did not see my 
 way out of the wood, but still I 
 hold that the physician who gives 
 up a case before the patient dies is 
 on a par with the soldier who runs 
 away from the enemy. So here, 
 though I was absolutely alone in 
 my view, I refused to surrender. 
 
of Jaundice. 191 
 
 The bowels had ceased to act; 
 there was more jaundice again, 
 and patient could no longer rise 
 from her bed. 
 
 I then gave Euonymin 3 X , six 
 grains every two hours, just as a 
 liver remedy. Under very great 
 agony patient in the course of a 
 week or two passed a handful of 
 gallstones by the bowels, and her 
 j aundice was gone ! 
 
 A number of the largest were 
 obtained from the stools, and on 
 account of the great interest of the 
 case I now present my readers 
 with a photogravure of them, taken 
 by Sprague, of London, and which 
 gives them in their natural size. 
 
192 Remarkable Case 
 
 I have shewn these biliary cal- 
 culi to certain medical friends, 
 and amongst them to Dr. Robert 
 T. Cooper, of London, as a curi- 
 osity. 
 
 I should explain that these 
 biliary calculi were very much 
 larger than here represented when 
 they were first passed, but their 
 outer layers were friable, and were 
 washed, picked, and rubbed off be- 
 fore the calculi were brought to 
 me; it is really only the hard 
 kernels of the calculi which are 
 given in this photogravure. 
 
 Notwithstanding the disappear- 
 ance of the jaundice, and the 
 passage of the gallstones as just 
 ^escribed, patient had got very low, 
 
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of Jaundice, 193 
 
 and the spleen did not seem to be 
 any better subjectively, and not 
 much smaller, and there was no 
 period. 
 
 Here I gave Ceonothus Am. 1, 
 five drops in water four times a 
 day. 
 
 15th. — Patient has had severe 
 rigors, seemingly caused by the 
 Ceanothus, which is therefore dis- 
 continued. She has no appetite, 
 and the menstruation has not ap- 
 peared. 
 
 To have Pulsatilla 1, three drops 
 in water every three hours. 
 
 20th. — Liver nearly normal ; has 
 just menstruated; the spleen has 
 
194 Remarkable Case 
 
 gone down a little; the entire ab- 
 domen very tender all over; has 
 again had an awful attack of gall- 
 stone colic, and passed a number 
 of stones, one very large. There 
 is still bile in the urine. 
 
 To have Bursa pastoris <L>, and 
 Nux vom. i. 
 
 29th. — Another attack of colic; 
 a further passage of biliary calculi 
 — three large ones ; patient is low 
 and weak, and prefers death to so 
 much pain. It is to be remembered 
 that large numbers of morphia pills 
 are being taken all this time. To 
 relieve the effects of the passage of 
 the calculi, and the almost general 
 feeling of bruisedness and tender- 
 
of Jaundice. 195 
 
 ness, I ordered Be His perennis 0, 
 eight drops in water every four 
 hours. 
 
 1891, Jan. 12th. — Great general 
 improvement from the use of the 
 Bellis perennis, but her liver and 
 spleen are more swelled and greatly 
 distress her. 
 
 J$> Trit 3 X Cholesterin. Six 
 grains dry on the tongue every 
 four hours. 
 
 19th. — Spleen and liver seem 
 larger than ever. No jaundice, 
 however. No menses. 
 
 Five drops of Pulsatilla <P three 
 
 times a day. 
 14 
 
196 Remarkable Case 
 
 26th. — Has normally menstru- 
 ated; liver smaller; spleen very 
 tender. 
 
 5? Bursa pastoris #. Five drops 
 in a tablespoonful of water three 
 times a day. 
 
 Feb. 3rd. — Has passed some 
 more calculi; region of gall duct 
 very tender; no jaundice; urine 
 normal ; is gaining flesh ; the 
 spleen is very large. 
 
 Ijk Tr. Ceanothus Americanus 1. 
 Five drops in water every four 
 hours. 
 
 13th. — There is further improve- 
 ment; she feels better; is begin- 
 ning to go about like other people , 
 
of Jaundice. 197 
 
 has passed one gallstone of small 
 size, and a number of lumps of 
 " sooty stuff." Feels that this 
 medicine has done her much good. 
 Rep. 
 
 23rd — The spleen has gone down 
 about one inch and three quarters ; 
 has menstruated again normally ; 
 is increasing in weight. 
 
 Rep. 
 
 March 16th. — By letter I am 
 informed that the spleen is not so 
 well ; and that there is a good deal 
 of pain in the right side again. 
 
 5? TrtL 3 X Leptandrin. Six 
 grains dry on the tougue, three 
 times a day. 
 
198 Remarkabe Case 
 
 31st. — No improvement from the 
 Leptandrin, and generally not so 
 well, though the jaundice is en- 
 tirely a thing of the past, and she 
 is now of a very clear white com- 
 plexion, and getting no longer to 
 appear to be particularly thin. 
 
 ^ Be His perennis and Bursa 
 pastor is in alternation. 
 
 April 15th — Liver, spleen, and 
 womb are described as " all blown 
 out;" much pain in the region of 
 the gall bladder. 
 
 Jfy Puis, and Byronia. 
 
 May 4th. — Patient is doing 
 well; liver normal, or nearly so, 
 spleen now only reaches half way 
 down to the crest of the ilium, 
 
of Jaundice. 199 
 
 and is well defined. Patient has 
 now the old symptoms of ulceration 
 of the OS UTERI — the forcible heal- 
 ing up of which started the whole 
 thing years ago ! 
 
 And here I think I may resume, 
 and conclude this already too long 
 narration. 
 
 We see in this case the import- 
 ance of Paracelsic organ-testing to 
 find out the point de depart of the 
 series of morbid phenomena; he- 
 patics and splenics had no ade- 
 quately curative action till the 
 uterine medicine [Bursa past oris) 
 had touched the place of origin of 
 the liver affection, and as soon as 
 
200 Three Months Later. 
 
 this was done (see Notes tinder 
 date November 17th, 1890) imme- 
 diate improvement began ! 
 
 We have now cured the jaun- 
 dice ; the gallstones have been got 
 rid of through the natural ways ; 
 the liver is well, and patient is 
 going about her business; and our 
 interest in the case in this TREA- 
 TISE on " The Diseases of the 
 Liver " is at an end. 
 
 Three Months Later. 
 
 August 10th, 1891. — Havingthis 
 day seen and carefully examined 
 this patient I am enabled to say 
 that she is in excellent health, 
 plump and pleasing, and equal to 
 
Conclusion of Part II 201 
 
 and performing the usual duties of 
 an English housewife with a large 
 family. 
 
PART III. 
 
The Diseases of the Liver. 
 
 ^T^HE issue of a second edition of 
 this treatise on Diseases of 
 the Liver affords me an opportunity 
 of adding somewhat to the clinical 
 demonstrations already contained 
 in Part II. 
 
 Particularly would I call atten- 
 tion to what is here related of the 
 sphere of action of Chelone glabra 
 of which no mention is made in the 
 first edition, because I was, at the 
 time of its issue, not clear on the 
 subject. At this place I would 
 also take the opportunity of point- 
 
2o6 An Omission. 
 
 ing out the omission by Dr. Dud- 
 geon of a very important point in 
 regard to the clinical use of Car- 
 duus maricz. Some time since Dr. 
 Dudgeon translated and published 
 in one of our journals some very 
 important cases of pulmonary dis- 
 ease and coughs as cured by Car- 
 duus. The impression conveyed 
 by this eminent writer's transla- 
 tion is that Carduus in these cases 
 acted as a pulmonary remedy 
 whereas the cases were really con- 
 sidered by their author as of hepatic 
 origin: the pulmonary manifesta- 
 tions being consentaneous, or sec- 
 ondary to primary liver affections 
 in all the cases narrated. This 
 point is of the highest importance 
 as Dr. Dudgeon's translations give 
 
Carduus, 207 
 
 one the impression that Carduus 
 is a lung medicine which I think 
 is entirety erroneous : the lung af- 
 fections that are curable by Car- 
 duus have their starting point in a 
 primary affection of the liver. All 
 the clinical writers on Carduus 
 with whose works I am acquainted 
 are of this opinion, and Rade- 
 macher, the greatest of them all, is 
 very clear and positive on the sub- 
 ject.* I will now relate a case of 
 hepatic disease of great interest 
 which had baffled some of the best 
 physicians in London and which 
 very clearly exemplifies the thera- 
 
 *I am very well aware that Dr. Dudgeon does 
 not share in my organopathic views, but as 
 translator he is bound to faithfully render the 
 original. 
 
2o8 Enlargement of Liver. 
 
 peutic range of Bellis'perennis and 
 again of Carduus marice. It is 
 one of: 
 
 Enlargement of Liver Remain- 
 ing from Hepatitis and 
 Peritonitis. 
 
 The wife of the Vicar of St. B. 
 brought a young lady, about 24 
 years of age, to me on February 
 20th, 1893, for considerable swell- 
 ing of the abdomen and such severe 
 varicosis of lower extremities that 
 the patient had been confined to 
 her couch for nearly a year. 
 Patient had had thrombosis of the 
 veins of her lower extremities re- 
 peatedly and the swelling in the 
 right side of the abdomen dates 
 
The Origin. 209 
 
 from a severe attack of peritonitis 
 and hepatitis. All idea of a cure 
 had been abandoned. Percussion 
 and palpitation revealed an en- 
 largement of the left lobe of the 
 liver and a painful lump lying be- 
 tween the liver and the navel about 
 the size of a small fist. Glands in 
 the groins feel like marbles, lower 
 extremities large and unshapely, 
 clearly the remains of the origi- 
 nal thrombosis. Inasmuch as the 
 whole series of phenomena — throm- 
 bosis, peritonitis, hepatitis — began 
 with getting a chill (cold, wet) six 
 years ago, I ordered my old friend 
 Bellis perennis ten drops in a table- 
 spoonful of water night and morn- 
 ing. 
 
210 Cured. 
 
 March 20th. — Very greatly im- 
 proved, indeed, lump nearly gone 
 and the lower extremities are now 
 shapely ! ! 
 
 The left lobe of the liver how- 
 ever remaining enlarged, I ordered 
 Carduus martce seven drops in 
 water night and morning. 
 
 April 28th. — Patient at this date 
 was walking about like other peo- 
 ple, and the only thing that re- 
 mained was a little transverse 
 swelling of the liver and this was 
 removed by a short course of 
 Che lone glabra. 
 
 In the fall of the year 1893, a 
 slight relapse occurred which was 
 quickly righted by Bellis perennis. 
 
Helianthns Annus. 211 
 
 The Vicar's wife was with me on 
 October 15th, 1894, on another 
 matter and mentioned incidentally 
 that Jessie's cure had proved com- 
 plete and lasting. 
 
 The common sunflower is an old 
 horticultural as well as clinical 
 friend of mine that has here and 
 there helped me in splenic affec- 
 tions. Here I use it more as a 
 liver remedy : — 
 
 Helianthus Annnus as a Liver 
 Medicine. 
 
 Altho' I regard the sunflower as 
 
 specially a spleen medicine still it 
 
 has a distinct action across from 
 
 the spleen toward the liver and 
 
 possibly it influences the liver also. 
 15 
 
212 Throbbing Swelling. 
 
 I have lately cured a stubborn case 
 of a throbbing swelling in the pit 
 of the stomach involving the left 
 side of the liver and the spleen 
 and the tissues lying between the 
 two organs. 
 
 No defined epigastric tumours 
 could be satisfactorily distinguished 
 but the whole epigastric region 
 was very tender on pressure and 
 patient could not bend down with- 
 out getting giddy and feeling much 
 distress at the epigastrium. The 
 particular interest in the case lay 
 in the long duration of the ailment 
 and the pulsating epigastric mass. 
 
 Patient took five drops of the 
 matrix tincture of Helianthus ) 
 night and morning for some weeks 
 
Pulsating Tumours. 213 
 
 when the only abnormal thing re- 
 maining was the very slight en- 
 largement of the left lobe of the 
 liver and for which he was pnt on 
 Chelone glabra. The spleen was 
 put right and also the epigastrium 
 of which the pulsation ceased, to- 
 gether with the tenderness and 
 distension and in view of the diffi- 
 culties one encounters in dealing 
 curatively with pulsating epigas- 
 tric swellings I think this short 
 narration worth penning and pre- 
 serving. 
 
 I know of nothing in the way 
 of diagnosis offering more difficul- 
 ties and pit- falls than " pulsating 
 tumours n in the abdomen, and 
 indeed all abdominal tumours take 
 a deal of diagnosing. 
 
214 Chelone Glabra. 
 
 I will now invite my reader to a 
 short yet closer consideration of an 
 hepatic that is a comparatively new 
 friend, viz: 
 
 Chelone Glabra — An Important 
 Hepatic. 
 
 I think I have discovered an im- 
 portant differential point for the 
 scientific nse of Chelone glabra. 
 
 A Commander in the Royal 
 Navy, about two years ago, came 
 under my observation for an enor- 
 mous varix in the right groin, just 
 on Poupart's ligament. The varix 
 was about the size of a very small 
 orange and the thing was certainly 
 becoming alarming on account of 
 the thinning of the wall of the 
 
Enlargement of Left Lobe. 215 
 
 dilated vein. And being in the 
 bend of the groin it was almost 
 impossible to apply mechanical 
 support. The patient was a thor- 
 oughly healthy fellow and thongh 
 I diagnosed him np and down and 
 questioned him unto very weari- 
 ness, still there was absolutely 
 nothing findable beyond a slight 
 enlargement of the left lobe of the 
 liver. I first used Chelidonium 
 majus. with some advantage, and 
 under Cardtius maricz the varix 
 certainly diminished somewhat, 
 but under the remedy in question 
 the varix disappeared and patient 
 hastened off on active service. 
 From this (and similar observa- 
 tions I have laid it down for my 
 own future guidance that the seat 
 
2 1 6 Action of Chelone. 
 
 of action of Chelone glabra is the 
 left lobe of the liver and its line of 
 action is in the direction of the 
 navel, bladder and uterus. That 
 this is really so the competent will 
 have no difficulty in verifying 
 whether Chelone acts upon the 
 liver itself as a true hepatic I 
 would not venture to affirm ; per- 
 haps it reduces the swellings of 
 the left lobe of the liver by its ac- 
 tion on the veins running up to 
 the liver. 
 
 Many of the "New Remedies" 
 have come and gone; Chelone has 
 come to stay: its sphere of action 
 is small, its action sharp and withal 
 well defined. 
 
Che lone Glabra. 217 
 
 Case of Right-sided Varicocele 
 
 from Enlarged Liver, much 
 
 Ameliorated by Chelone 
 
 Glabra. 
 
 A gentleman, who had long been 
 under me, consulted me again in 
 the spring of 1894 for varicocele of 
 the right side. Casting about to 
 find the primary dam I found the 
 left lobe of the liver notably 
 swelled, patient himself being how- 
 ever in capital health. There was 
 besides the varicocele a moderate 
 degree of varicosis of the large 
 veins of the whole of the right leg. 
 I prescribed Chelone glabra, five 
 
218 Chelone Glabra. 
 
 drops in a tablespoonful of water 
 night and morning. 
 
 I did not hear from him for 
 eleven months when he called to 
 see me telling me he had gone on 
 with the remedy steadily all the 
 time as it seemed to be doing him 
 good. 
 
 On examining him I found the 
 varicocele had gone down about 
 one-half and the varicosis of the 
 leg had also notably diminished, 
 so that he can now safely dispense 
 with the elastic support. I was 
 here led to prescribe Chelone be- 
 cause of its line of action from right 
 to left and from above downwards. 
 
 The testimony afforded by this 
 
Vein Remedies. 219 
 
 case is very high indeed because 
 patient lias been under me for 
 years for his varicosis with but 
 small benefit, and bis beino- an 
 officer in the Royal Navy rendered 
 it very important that he should 
 have his varicosis mended. He is 
 not entirely cured now but the 
 amelioration is such that in his 
 own words "they (the authorities) 
 will let me go now on any expedi- 
 tion. " I had before made use of a 
 number of vein medicines and con- 
 stitutional remedies, but Chelone 
 alone did ten times more than they 
 all. 
 
220 Limitations. 
 
 Carduus Maricz and Chelone 
 Glabra. 
 
 There are cases of enlargement 
 of the left lobe of the liver that are 
 ameliorated by Carduus maricz, and 
 by Chelone glabra also, though 
 not radically cured by either and 
 these cases beautifully exemplify 
 the limitations of the curative 
 spheres of organ-remedies as I have 
 more particularly dwelt upon in 
 my work on " Diseases of the 
 Spleen." The subject is so im- 
 portant that I will go into the 
 matter at this place somewhat 
 more in detail. It is a great help 
 in the drug treatment of disease to 
 
Constant Indications. 221 
 
 be able to get clean-out constant 
 indications for our remedies; and 
 so it is very helpful to see where 
 the remedial action certainly leaves 
 off. Now the curative sphere of 
 organ-remedies stops short of blood 
 diseases; they do not reach the 
 diathesis, and they therefore do 
 not cure, e.g., Chronic Skin Dis- 
 eases ; skin diseases are commonly 
 diathesic. 
 
 A gentleman of thirty years of 
 age came under my observation for 
 liver disease, skin disease, insom- 
 nia, depression of spirits and 
 chronic diarrhoea tho', only thirty 
 years of age, he has lost all his 
 teeth from shrinking of the gums; 
 they just fell out. His skin dis- 
 
222 Sternal Patch. 
 
 ease consisted in what I have else- 
 where called the Sternal Patch, the 
 liver affection in an enlargement 
 of the left lobe and for this I 
 ordered Carduus maricz, six drops 
 in water, three times a day. In a 
 short time he reported himself as 
 sleeping well and his spirits nota- 
 bly improved. Arsenicum and 
 Thuja followed but no further im- 
 provement worth while mention- 
 ing, when, on June 13th, I pre- 
 scribed Chelone glabra in the same 
 manner in which I had formerly 
 ordered Carduus. 
 
 July 13th. — " That medicine 
 {Chelone) acted like a charm. 
 
 Patient remained well for a year 
 or so and then returned with the 
 
Where Organ Remedies Fail. 223 
 
 old symptoms again — I have now 
 come to the point of my case. 
 Cardials was ordered as before. 
 Chelone followed, bnt neither acted 
 as formerly, that which a year 
 before acted like a charm now acted 
 not at all. The fact is in this case 
 there exists a constitutional crasis 
 quite away from the hepatic state, 
 it is an organismic ailing and not 
 merely one of the organ, and here 
 I found it necessary to go in quest 
 of the homoeopathic simillimum, 
 the simple homoeopathic part-elec- 
 tive drug-effinhy not sufficing. 
 Clearly organ-remedies restore 
 only tone and equable circulation 
 in most instances but do not alter 
 the organismic quality of the 
 organ, nor do they cure any dia- 
 
224 Homoeopathic Simillimum. 
 
 thesic quality of the stroma of the 
 organ. 
 
 In fine : Where the organ-ill 
 comes from the organism and keeps 
 on coming, the organ remedy is 
 capable only of clearing the organ 
 of its organismic soot, so to speak, 
 for the time being; it is only while 
 where the organ ailment is in and 
 of the organ that the organ remedy 
 is adequate. Also where the ail- 
 ment is in and of the organ it is 
 useless to attempt its cure with 
 high dilutions affecting the whole 
 organism : a localized organ disease 
 calls for a localized organ remedy, 
 just as a general diathesic organis- 
 mic disease needs the homoeo- 
 pathic simillimum in some potency 
 
Homczopathicity. 225 
 
 sufficiently removed from its ma- 
 teriality. The degree of honiceo- 
 pathicity conditions the degree of 
 potency, the greater the degree of 
 of homceopathicity the greater 
 (higher) the potency and con- 
 versely. Hence it is that I use 
 mother tinctures .in the organo- 
 pathic states and ailments. Thus 
 even in the use of simple organ- 
 remedies of but small pathogenetic 
 powers, yet considerable local affin- 
 ity, a few drops of the mother 
 tincture ma 3^ act very perturbingly. 
 For instance the tincture of the 
 common marigold may be used in 
 5 or 10 drop doses with ver}' slight 
 effect but let the homoeopathicity 
 be a little greater than merely local 
 
226 Calendula. 
 
 affinity and we get nausea, vomit- 
 ing and abdominal distress. 
 
 Calendula as A LivKR Medicine. 
 
 We find under Calendula " chilly 
 hand." "He is easily frightened" 
 — I have often used Calendula in- 
 ternally and gained the conviction 
 that it has a certain beneficial 
 influence upon scrofulous ulcers 
 notably helping to make a nice 
 scar. In liver affections I had not 
 used it till Dr. Robert T. Cooper 
 mentioned it to me in this regard, 
 but he knew of no special indica- 
 tion for its use in preference to any 
 other, and this is ever the great 
 difficulty with organ-remedies, es- 
 
Calendula Indications. 227 
 
 pecially where the epidemic genius 
 of the disease is unknown, and, as 
 it so often is, unknowable; my 
 greatest help is to find out the 
 exact part of the organ or part, a 
 given remedy affects and this is 
 often quite sufficient. 
 
 The two symptoms, " chilly 
 hands" and " easily frightened," 
 taken together and in conjunction 
 with liver troubles, would seem to 
 call for Calendula. 
 
 Case. — Mr. X., a singer of world- 
 wide fame, had been under me for 
 some months with much advan- 
 tage; under hepatics and renal 
 remedies he greatly improved, but 
 did not get rid of his " cold hands • ' 
 
 and " I am so dreadfully nervous, 
 16 
 
228 A Calendula Case. 
 
 I am frightened at everything, 
 sometimes I dare not enter a cab 
 or carriage, and feel it to be abso- 
 lutely impossible to face the audi- 
 ence and my indigestion is pretty 
 bad and I have a great deal of 
 heartburn." 
 
 At the left side of the liver, deep 
 in, seemed the faulty part. 
 
 Ijk. Calendula off, 0, five drops 
 in water, night and morning, was 
 ordered and after a month of this 
 I heard "Oh, I am getting on 
 splendidly; the heartburn is gone, 
 my digestion is better, my hands 
 have quite lost that nasty cold 
 feeling and my nerve is so much 
 better, I am quite a different man." 
 
Vaccinosis. 229 
 
 I liad formerly won this gentle- 
 man's confidence by materially im- 
 proving his grand voice. 
 
 What with ? 
 
 Thuja occidentalis 30. 
 
 Why given? 
 
 For Yaccinosis. 
 
 The number of people I have 
 benefitted by Thuja 30 is really 
 
 almost beyond belief; one dose of 
 six globules ever}- week is my rule. 
 
230 Hep a tic Dropsy. 
 
 Chelone Glabra in Hepatic 
 Dropsy. 
 
 In a case of severe dyspnoea 
 from hepatic dropsy Chelone glabra 
 rendered me good service ; the case 
 was very complicated inasmnch as 
 in addition to bradycardia, cirrhosis 
 of the liver and Bright's disease of 
 the kidneys there was seemingly a 
 tnmonr lying between the liver 
 and the navel: tense, tender and 
 certainly of quite a different natnre 
 to the general ascitic swelling. 
 By reason of its topographic posi- 
 tion and in view of the line of 
 action of Chelone as I have before 
 pointed ont, I gave five drops of 
 
A Chelone Cure. 231 
 
 Chelone <P in a tablespoonful of 
 water every four hours and in less 
 than a fortnight the lump between 
 liver and navel had quite disap- 
 peared, and simultaneously there- 
 with also the cardiac d\^spnoea. I 
 say cardiac d}'spncea as it lay in 
 its origin between the liver and 
 the heart, I could not trace any 
 direct influence of Chelone on 
 either the heart or kidneys though 
 both were much influenced by the 
 removal of the obstructive mass 
 between liver and navel. 
 
232 Quassia. 
 
 Quassia as a Liver Medicine. 
 
 It is difficult to conceive of any- 
 thing outside of one's own self and 
 one's own experience and hence it 
 comes to pass that I have never 
 been quite able to realize that 
 Quassia has any action on the 
 liver worth while. Und Dock. 
 
 Very early in 1895 a gentlemen 
 sent me a young man from Hamp- 
 stead who had been in vain 
 operated on in University College 
 Hospital and thence discharged as 
 incurable. Incurable at twenty 
 years of age ! 
 
 This young man informed me 
 that he left University College 
 
A Bad Case. 233 
 
 Hospital quite lately and showed 
 me a long scar in the right axil- 
 lary line where an incision would 
 have enabled an exploration of the 
 right kidney region, gall bladder 
 and back of liver, which no doubt 
 was the object of the operation. 
 He himself stated that it was for 
 stone in the right kidney but on 
 reaching the kidney no stone could 
 be found and so the wound was 
 stitched up, and as soon as it had 
 healed-up patient was discharged 
 as incurable. 
 
 Patient complained of attacks of 
 severe pain at the back of the liver 
 — just where the fresh scar is seen 
 — coming on with vomiting at any 
 time, any day and in any weather; 
 
234 A Bad Case. 
 
 these attacks average about one a 
 week and the pain once on will 
 last from one to three days. Has 
 been subject to these attacks for 
 five years and has had to give up 
 all work for long and is now much 
 reduced in health and strength. 
 The vomiting comes on whenever 
 he attempts to eat. As the attack 
 comes on he swells and seems very 
 tight in the girth. In the perpen- 
 dicular the hepatic dulness goes 
 right up to the nipple. I put 
 patient at first on Hydrastis Cana- 
 densis, then on Urtica urens, then 
 on Chelidonium majus with the 
 sole difference that under the Chel- 
 idonium the dull percussion note 
 of the liver in the mammary line 
 was a trifle less. 
 
Quassia Ordered. 235 
 
 On April 9th I ordered Quassia 
 tincture 0, five drops in water every 
 four hours. 
 
 23d. There is very great im- 
 provement and the young man has 
 quite a different look, his low 
 whining complaining tone having 
 given way to much greater mental 
 and physical alertness, only one 
 attack of pain. Rep. 
 
 May 7th. There have been two 
 attacks of pain, but very much 
 less severe and he feels much 
 stronger. 
 
 To take the Quassia in five drop 
 doses three times a day. 
 
 May 2 1 st. Attacks are much 
 less in severity and less frequent. 
 
236 Great Improvement. 
 
 Patient has put on flesh, the previ- 
 ous dirty colour of the skin of his 
 face has gone and given place to a 
 clean, healthy looking face. Rep. 
 
 Remains under treatment so I 
 am not able to say whether the 
 Quassia is the real remedy in the 
 case; but, assuming that it does no 
 more than it has already accom- 
 plished, at any rate its record in 
 the case is better than that of my 
 allopathic friends at University 
 College Hospital. So far as I see 
 at present it is a case of neither 
 liver nor kidney merely, but of the 
 right supra-renal capsule, but into 
 this dark continent we will now 
 not penetrate. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Acholia, Chelidonium in . , 39 
 
 Acromegaly 9 
 
 Amekean Treatment of Hepatic Tumours . 137 
 Analgesic Action of Salicylate of Sodium .172 
 Asthma Occurring with Gallstones . . . .152 
 Autonomy and Hegemony of the Organ and 
 
 the Organism 1 
 
 Badiaga in Chronic Biliousness 99 
 
 Bellis peren nis in Biliary Calculi 195 
 
 173, 195, 209 
 
 Bilious Debility, Ferrum picricum in . . . 94 
 
 Bilious Fevers 38 
 
 Biliousness, Chronic, Chelidonium in . . . 87 
 
 Brassica mur. in Sluggish Liver 83 
 
 Bronchial Catarrh 106 
 
 Bryonia in Gallstones 117 
 
 Bursa pastoris in Uterine Disease 187 
 
 Calendula as a Liver Medicine 226 
 
 Cancer, Hepatic 137 
 
 " " Iodum in 138 
 
 Carduus mar 50, 66, 185, 206, 220 
 
 11 " in Cancer of Liver 137 
 
238 Index. 
 
 PAGK. 
 
 Carduus mar. in liver and Spleen Affections 52 
 " i ' in Enlargement of Liver and 
 
 Spleen 53 
 
 " " Riel's Proving of 57 
 
 " in Transverse Enlargement 
 
 of Liver 58 
 
 " " in Gallstones . . 89, 93, 160, 163 
 
 " ' ' in Dyspepsia 72 
 
 " " and Chelone Compared . . . 220 
 
 Ceancthus in Enlarged Spleen 196 
 
 Cervical Glands, Induration of 56 
 
 Chelidonium in Acholia 39 
 
 " in Cancer of liver . . . 116, 138 
 
 ' ' a Liver Specific ........ 35 
 
 " an Old Remedy for Jaundice 30 
 in Enlarged Liver with Jaun- 
 dice 44 
 
 in Enlarged Liver with Con- 
 gestion of Lung ... 23, 45 
 " in Engorgement of Right 
 
 Lung 48 
 
 " in Gallstones 89, 153 
 
 ' ' in Hepatic Colic 96, 103 
 
 "" Jaundice Cured by . . . .29, 47 
 
 1 ' in Perpendicular Enlargement 
 
 of Liver 59 
 
 " Rademacher's Experience of . 35 
 " in Varicose Veins from En- 
 larged Liver 114 
 
Index. 239 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Chelone glabra 205, 213, 214. 220, 230 
 
 " " an Important Hepatic . . .214 
 
 " " Right-sided Varicocele from 
 
 Enlarged Liver, much. 
 Ameliorated by . . . .217 
 
 " " in Hepatic Dropsy 230 
 
 Cholagogue, Salicylate of Sodium a . . . . 172 
 Cholesterifie in Cancer of Liver . . . .119, 13S 
 11 in Gallstones . . . S9, 94, 173, 195 
 
 " in Tumour of Liver — 
 
 in, 11S, 133, 135, 13S, 139 
 
 Cold Hands, Calendula 22S 
 
 Colic, Hepatic Si. 94, 103 
 
 ;t " Berberis in 96 
 
 " " Carduus in 74, 96 
 
 " " Chelidonium in .... 96, 103 
 
 11 " Hydrastis in 96, 103 
 
 Cough, and Bronchial Catarrh 106 
 
 Crocus in Dysenteria Hepatica 15S 
 
 Cure of Gallstones, Rademacher's 150 
 
 Curing the Incurable 102, 124 
 
 Diplotaxis teuuifolia 93, 122 
 
 Dose, Question of iS 
 
 Durand's Remedy 162 
 
 " " Composition of . . . 164 
 
 Dysenteria Hepatica Cured 158 
 
 Enormous Spleen 1S1 
 
 Environment 2 
 
240 Index. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Euonymin in Enlarged Iyiver 102 
 
 " in Jaundice 191 
 
 - ' ' in Gallstones 97 
 
 Ferrum picricum in Bilious Debility ... 94 
 French Physicians, Practice of, in Hepatic 
 
 Colic 172 
 
 Gallstones, Rademacher's Cure of 60 
 
 Gallstones 84, 115 
 
 Hydrastis in . . . 49, 85, 89, 93, 96 
 with Organic Disease of Iviver . 87 
 Accompanied by Asthma . . . .151 
 
 Bilirubin in 89 
 
 Chelidonium in 30, 89, 153 
 
 Colic 94, 103 
 
 Helonium in 117 
 
 Ignatia in 89, 103 
 
 Iodoformum in 94 
 
 Myrica cerifera in 49 
 
 Psoricum in 152 
 
 Terebinth in 154 
 
 Goitre 11 
 
 Headache, Neuralgic, Cured by Thuja . . 62 
 Helianthus annus as a Iviver Medicine . 211 
 
 Helonium in Gallstones 117 
 
 Hepatalgia, Chelidonium in 32 
 
 Hepatica, Rademacher's 156 
 
 Hepatic Cancer 137 
 
 " " Iodium in 138 
 
Index, 241 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Hepatic Tumour, Amekean Treatment of .137 
 11 " Cholesterine in . . . 118, 135 
 
 Hughes', Dr., Pharmacodynamics 34 
 
 Hydrastis in Gallstones . . . 49, S5, 89, 93, 96 
 
 " in Tawniness of Skin 108 
 
 " in Enlarged Spleen 183 
 
 Icterus Neonatorum, Myrica in 75 
 
 Ignatia amara in Gallstones 89 
 
 Iod 'of 07 mum in Gallstones 94 
 
 " in Malignant Diseases of Liver 120 
 
 Iodium in Cancer of Liver 136 
 
 Jaundice 23, 29, 44, 47 
 
 " Catarrhal 29, 47 
 
 ' ' Remarkable Case of 375 
 
 " Intense 180 
 
 Kalibichrom. in Cancer of Liver . .121, 135 
 
 " " in Gallstones 93 
 
 Leptandra Virginica in Liver Disease ... 78 
 
 Leptandrifi in Spleen and Liver Disease . .197 
 
 Liver, Enlargement of, with Jaundice ... 44 
 
 " Hypertrophy of Left Lobe, with 
 
 Sternal Patch 91 
 
 " Enlargement of, Remaining from 
 
 Hepatitis and Peritonitis .... 208 
 Lung, Chelidonium in Engorgement of 
 
 Right 48 
 
 i( Congestion of Right, with Enlarged 
 
 Liver 45 
 
242 Index. 
 
 PAG£. 
 Marie's Disease 9 
 
 Medorrh C. in Hepatic Tumour 140 
 
 Muriatic acid, a liver Remedy 51 
 
 Myrica erifera in Cancer of Iyiver ... 138 
 
 " " in Gallstones 49 
 
 * * " in Icterus Neonatorum . . 75 
 Dr. Leland Walker's Prov- 
 ing of 77 
 
 Natrum mur 32, 54, 138 
 
 Natrum sulphuricum in Iyiver Disease . . 51 
 
 Neuralgia, Silicea in 102 
 
 Neuralgic Headaches, Cured by Thuja . . 62 
 
 Nux vomica in Catarrh of Gall Ducts ... 39 
 
 " " in Gallstones with Hepatic 
 
 Disease 89 
 
 Olive oil in Biliary Attacks 173 
 
 Organopathy of Paracelsus 147 
 
 Palpitation from Enlarged Liver 100 
 
 Paracelsus' Organopathy 147 
 
 Picric acid in Debility from Jaundice ... 83 
 
 Picrate of iron in Bilious Debility 94 
 
 Podophyllum a Great liver Remedy .... 77 
 " in Chronic Hepatic Enlarge- 
 ment 168 
 
 " in Diarrhoea 79, 169 
 
 Prunus Virginica in Gallstones 93 
 
 Psoricum 79 
 
 " in Gallstones 152 
 
Index. 2\' L 
 
 ho 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Pu Isatilla in Gallstones 195 
 
 Quassia, Action on Liver 157 
 
 as a Liver Medicine 232 
 
 Radernacher's Cnre of Gallstones 160 
 
 " Experience with Chelidonium 35 
 
 11 Formula 51 
 
 11 Hepatica 156 
 
 Rademaclier on Small Doses 40 
 
 Relation of Organs to Organism 4 
 
 Remarkable Case of Jaundice 175 
 
 Kiel's Proving of Card uu s 57 
 
 Saffron, Its Influence on Liver 156 
 
 Salicylate of sodium a Cholagogue . . . .172 
 
 " " an Analgesic 173 
 
 Sanguinaria Can. a Liver Medicine .... 79 
 
 11 " in Gallstones S9 
 
 Shortness of Breath from Enlarged Liver . 100 
 
 Signatures. Doctrine of 7 
 
 Skin. Complexion of. in Liver Affections . 109 
 
 Tawniness of , Hydrastis in 106 
 
 Sluggish Liver. Brassica mur. in S3 
 
 Small Doses, Rademacher on 41 
 
 Specificity of Seat 142 
 
 Spleen Affections. Ceanothus in 72 
 
 Enormous Enlargement of 1S1 
 
 Stahl. E.. on Cardans 73 
 
 Sternal Patch, The 46. 69. 91 
 
 Taraxacum in Liver Disease 61 
 
 17 
 
244 Index. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Tawniness of Skin, Hydrastis in 106 
 
 Terebinth, in Gallstones 165 
 
 " in Indurations 165 
 
 Thlaspi bursa pastoris in Gallstones . . . . 99 
 
 " " " Indications for Use 98 
 
 Thuja in Gallstones with Hepatic Disease . 89 
 
 ' ' in Indurated Cervical Glands .... 56 
 
 ' ' in Neuralgic Headaches 62 
 
 Thyroid Feeding 14 
 
 Tuberculinum 15 
 
 Tumour of Iviver, Cholesterine in 118 
 
 Turpentine in Indurations 165 
 
 Urticaurais 185 
 
 Vaccinosis . 227 
 
 Varicose Veins from Enlarged Liver . . .111 
 Walker's, Dr. Leland, Proving of Myrica, 55, 77 
 
 Illustrations of Gallstones by the Photo- 
 gravure process opposite 192 
 
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 1895. 
 
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