What The Doctor Needs To Know in Order To Make A Successful Prescription.
What The Doctor Needs To Know in Order To Make A Successful Prescription.
What The Doctor Needs To Know in Order To Make A Successful Prescription.
successful prescription
By Pr James Tyler Kent
Presented by Médi-T
Introduction
Introduction
by James Tyler Kent
We receive many letters from patients asking for medicine for some specified
disease by name and not mentioning any symptoms upon which we can base an
intelligent prescription.
Homoeopathy is an exact science. It is based upon a natural law, and the true
physician must prescribe in accordance with this law of nature.
Homoeopathy has no specific for any disease by name, but it has a true
specific for each individual case of disease.
That is, Homoeopathy does not treat fever, or any other disease, in the abstract,
but applies medicine to the individual personality in that condition which
produces or causes fever.
The beneficent Creator has ordained that every diseased condition shall be
made known by certain symptoms, and whenever that same condition is present
that same set of symptoms will also be present.
Certain symptoms are always present in any given disease ; these point alone
to the name of the disease.
When these symptoms peculiar to the individual patient are known the
homoeopathic remedy can be selected that will surely cure every curable disease,
whether the disease be tumors, morbid growths, cancer or other skin diseases, or
any form of chronic or acute disease peculiar to man, woman or child.
To accomplish this desirable result every case must be individualized, every
symptoms from head to feet, must be given, every variation from positive health
must be known.
To simply write "I have the headache", "the backache", "an eruption", or "a
cough", would not be a guide in the selection of a homoeopathic remedy. Such
statements are too general and do but little good.
When you further add that the pains "always come on when the slightest cold
air strikes the head", the pains are "much less when lying down and covering up
the head warmly", and "much worse when rising up, walking about, or when the
head becomes cool", you then state just what the physician needs to guide him.
This is what is called "individualizing the case".
While taking the medicine it is necessary to abstain from every other kind of
medicine, whether domestic, patent, or from another physician.
Don't use camphor, perfumes, liniments, gargles, and the like. Any of these
may seriously interfere with the curative remedy. If worse at any time, and you
feel that you must have relief, write the particulars to your own physician.
Very often the curative remedy will cause an aggravation at first, or at the first
menstrual period, but this is a good indication and should not be interfered with.
Let the remedy have its perfect work.
The following suggestions and questions will aid the patient in giving such a
description of his case as the homoeopathic physician must have to prescribe
intelligently. These questions and suggestions should be read aver till
comprehended fully.
Don't guess at the meaning ; there is nothing here suggested, and no question
asked, but that is most important.
The success of the prescription depends largely upon your ability to describe
your symptoms. ANSWER NO QUESTION BY "YES OR "NO".
Make your reply in full, giving all the particulars. Use your own language ; the
language used in these pages is merely suggestive.
State your case simply, in full, with reference only to facts in the case. Do not
refer to questions that do not refer to your case. No one case will have need to
answer more than a small part of the questions propounded, but every patient
must carefully read every line and word and reply to everything that has any
bearing on the case in hand.
Do not repeat the question in your letter, but merely state the fact in full. Pass
by anything you do not comprehend. Consult the dictionary for any word you may
not understand, so as to make sure of your statement.
While taking medicine use common sense in diet. Avoid everything you know
to be hurtful, or of which you have doubt. Avoid rich, greasy food, spices, cakes,
pies, candies, tea, strong coffee, and food or drink after which you feel
uncomfortable.
Section 01
When first writing
Always state the name and address in full ; give the age, occupation, married or
single (how long married), the color of hair and eyes, the complexion, and any
peculiarity of the patient as to form, appearance, size, etc., etc.
Give your height and weight, State whether any near relative on father's or
mother's side has died of, or been troubled with, consumption, asthma, cancer,
tumors, scrofula, hives, erysipelas, skin diseases of any kind, or any other chronic
complaint ; also any peculiarity of the family on either side.
Give a history of your own trouble, how it commenced and how long it has been
troubling you, and any changes which may have taken place ; what kinds of
medicine you have used extensively ; what you think caused the trouble ; what
name has used given to the disease ; Whether gaining or losing flesh or weight in,
the past few months ; how often you have been vaccinated and the effect.
Always draw a line under the symptoms that are the most prominent and
troublesome, or otherwise call attention to them so your physician may know
them without doubt.
Section 02
After the first prescription
Always state when you began the last medicine ; state any changes in the
conditions or symptoms since taking the medicine, and the time of the change ;
mention the symptoms which are entirely gone, or are better, since taking the
medicine, and all new ones. Specify the new symptoms, and the old ones which
return since treatment.
Section 03
Mental symptoms
The symptoms of the Mind and Disposition are most important and should be
carefully considered and reported.
Have you any delusions of any kind, or do you imagine you see things that have
no existence, that your family has turned against you, that a man is under the bed
or in the house, that some one is following hounding you, that you are rich or
poor, or will die in the poor house, hear voices, or that you are called, or anything
else in this line ?
Be very careful to give all these symptoms fully as the are very important.
The questions and language here used are merely suggestive, being intended to
lead you to give all your symptoms.
It is not intended that the patient be restricted to the language or symptoms of the
pamphlet. Give your case in your own language carefully and fully.
Section 04
Sensations
These special Sensations may occur in any part of the body, or internally, or in the
head or extremities.
It may be like a mouse or bug crawling ; like wind blowing into the ears or eyes ;
as if someone was pulling a hair ; as of a blow on the back ; as if the heart was
grasped by an iron hand ; as if claws were grasping the bowel ; as of a splinter in
the throat or flesh ; like a string or thread on the tongue or in the throat ; as if a
joint were dislocated ; as of a band or cord around the head ; as though you had a
cap on or hat ; as of a plug in the ear or in some other place.
These are merely illustrations, a few that have occurred to other persons, and are
given that you may understand what is meant by sensations. Always give the
location as well as the sensation.
Section 05
Better or worse
This section refers to each disease, each sickness and to every symptom.
Be sure that the aggravation or amelioration you notice is from the cause given.
The time of an aggravation or amelioration refers to the year, the month, the
week, the day, the night, or the hour.
State at what time your trouble, or any single symptom, is better or worse.
State what season of the year, what time in the month, whether the phases of the
moon cause either, what part of the week, what hour of the day or night the
trouble or single symptom comes on, or is made better or worse.
Is there any position which you may assume that causes the trouble or any single
symptom to be better or worse ?
It may be when you first he down, or after lying down awhile, or rising up after
lying down ; on sitting down, after sitting awhile, or on rising after sitting ;
standing, after standing awhile, or on sitting after standing ; walking, walking
much, walking in the house or in the open air, or in cold or warm air, or at night ;
running, running rapidly or slowly ; when stooping over, after stooping, or on
rising from stooping ; leaning the head backward, forward, to one side, or leaning
the head on the table or the hand ; lying with the head high or low ; lying in some
particular position ; crawling on the hands and knees ; or some other of many
possible positions.
The above is given to impress on the mind the great importance of noticing what
may seem to be little things.
Any one of these may be great or little, but your physician must be the judge of
that.
Section 06
Pain
Give the exact location on the head, body, arms, hands, legs, feet, etc. ; right side
or left side ; make this location as minute as you can.
State whether the pain remains in one place, or whether it changes places ; if
moving or changing place state just how, and to what place it goes.
Always mention the place where it starts and then where it goes, and how it goes.
1. State how the pain makes you feel ; the effect on you ; how you act during
the pain ?
2. Is there anything, any act, any position, any part of the day or night,
application of cold or warm water, or dry heat or cold, any change in the
weather, cold or warm air, or any other circumstance that causes the pain
to be easier or worse, or removes it entirely ?
3. (See Section 5.) Is there any change in the appearance or feeling of the
skin, flesh or bone after the pain leaves ?
4. What is your general feeling after the pain leaves ?
5. How does the pain come, quickly or slowly ?
6. Anything that seems to bring it on ?
7. How does the pain leave, quickly or slowly ?
8. What seems to cause it to leave ?
9. What kind of pain is it ?
10. What does it seem like to your feeling or imagination ?
11. This is very important as there are various kinds of pain, such as cutting,
boring, digging, bruised, sore, aching, biting, burning, cramp-like, dull,
drawing, gnawing, jerking, labor-like, oppressive, paralytic, piercing,
pinching, pressing, pricking, pulsative, stitching, shooting, tearing, violent,
wandering (changing place), as from ulceration, as from excoriation or a
raw place.
12. Express the sensation of pain in your own language-just as it feels to you.
13. How much of the time do you have the pain ?
14. When is it likely to come on ?
15. When are you likely to be free from it ?
16. Is there any sore, eruption or swelling at the seat of the pain ?
17. Any change in the color of the place or in the usual appearance of the
skin ?
Mention anything else about the pain that occurs to you, especially anything that
appears to be unusual or singular.
Section 07
Discharges of all kinds
This refers to discharges from open sores, boils, fistulas, ulcers, etc., from the
eyes, nose, cars, mouth, private parts, lungs, the skin, etc.
Give the quantity and the time or condition under which the quantity varies.
(Section 5.)
Give the consistency, whether thin or thick, stringy, clotted like jelly, white of an
egg, gruel, water, etc., etc.
The appearance, just what it looks like, the color, and the time or condition when
the appearance varies.
The odor, what it reminds you of ; whether the odor varies and the time and
circumstances of the variation.
Whether it makes the parts sore, and in what way ; whether the discharge has any
effect on your feeling or strength ; how long it has continued ; whether the
discharge comes and goes, and the time and circumstance of this variation.
Section 08
Head
Be sure to give the exact location of any trouble of the head and whether internal
or external.
Section 09
Ears
State minutely what the noise is like. Give any sensations in the ears as in Section
4. How does your own voice sound to you ?
Section 10
Eyes
Discharges as in Section 7.
Sensations as in Section 4.
Section 12
Mouth and tongue
State whether the trouble is with the tongue or mouth, and what part of the mouth.
1. Any sores ?
2. Give the location, appearance, color and size of the sores.
3. Whether depressed or elevated ?
4. For the pain in the sores see Section 6. Is mouth or tongue dry or moist ?
5. Much or little saliva ?
6. Character, color, appearance and any peculiarities of the saliva ?
Section 13
Teeth
Section 14
Throat
Section 15
Eating and Drinking
1. Have you a craving for any special article of food ? (Not merely a desire,
but a feeling that you must have it.)
2. Any aversion to any special article of food ?
3. Name the article in either case.
4. Are you hungry much of the time or at any special time ?
5. Is the hunger or craving for food excessive ?
6. Have you no desire for food ?
7. Do you have hunger with aversion to eating ?
8. Do you eat without hunger ?
9. Does the food taste good ?
10. Has the food a natural taste ?
11. How do you feel before eating ?
12. Have you any bad effect from eating much or little ?
13. Do you desire little or much food at a time ?
14. Is there any special food that disagrees ?
15. Do you desire solid or liquid food ?
16. Do you crave you don't know what ?
17. Do you crave substantial food or dainties, candy, cakes, sweet things, sour
things, etc., etc.
18. Is the appetite even or variable ?
19. Does food satisfy you ?
20. Any trouble that always comes on after eating all you want, or after a little
food ?
21. Do you eat hastily or slowly ?
22. Do you have sick stomach or vomiting after eating ?
23. Does eating aggravate other complaints ?
24. Are you sleepy after eating ?
25. Have you pain anywhere after eating ? (See Section 6.)
26. Do you suddenly lose your appetite or relish for food while eating, or at
any time ?
27. Are you very thirsty or thirstless ?
28. Do you wish to drink often or seldom ?
29. Do you want to drink much at a time, or little ?
30. What effect has drinking on you ?
31. Any trouble that always comes on after drinking ?
32. Do you crave any special drink ?
33. Do you wish hot or cold, or ice cold drinks ?
34. Do you feel badly after drinking ?
35. Does drinking satisfy you ?
36. Do you use tea or coffee ?
37. How much ?
38. Do you use alcoholic or other liquors ?
39. Do you use much milk ?
40. Does milk agree ?
41. Do you have sick stomach or vomiting after drinking ?
42. Does drinking aggravate other complaints ?
43. How does water, or other drinks, taste ?
Section 16
Nausea, Vomiting, Eructations, etc.
These terms stand for different things. It is necessary to make the distinction in
writing your case.
1. Is it frequent ?
2. When does it usually come on ?
3. Does it last long at a time ?
4. What relieves it ?
5. What makes it worse ?
6. Does it relieve the stomach, pain in any place, the throat, or do you feel
better generally after belching ?
7. Have you pain anywhere before or during belching ?
8. Is the amount of wind great or small ?
9. Does it come up easily or with difficulty ?
10. Is there any other trouble that always accompanies it ?
11. Is there any bloating of the stomach or abdomen ?
12. Do you try to belch but cannot ?
13. Any nausea with it ?
14. Any taste with it ?
15. Acid, like almond, like apples, bitter, greasy, fetid or foul, hot, rancid,
salty, sweetish, etc. ?
Give particulars.
30. Where is the nausea located, or from where does it seem to come ?
31. Does it come and go, or is it constant when present ?
32. Does it always come on at a particular time ?
33. What seems to cause it ?
34. Is there any other trouble or pain that always comes before it or with it ?
35. How does it affect you ?
36. Describe the feeling in your own words. Does it come on suddenly or
gradually ?
37. What relieves it ?
38. What makes it worse ?
39. Is there with it any fai tness f inting dizziness, paleness, weakness ?
40. Do you vomit or retch with the nausea ?
41. Is there any sweating with it ?
42. Where is the sweat ?
43. Is the sweat warm or cold ?
44. Do you feel that it would relieve you to vomit ?
45. Is there simple nausea, or do you feel deathly sick ?
50. Is it acid, acrid, like of an egg, bilious, bitter, black, or blood, bluish,
brown, like coffee grounds, cold, curdle, fecal, fetid or foul, fluid, frothy,
glairy, greasy, green, jelly-like, milk, milky, mucous, musty, of pus or
matter like rice water, salty, sweetish, watery, white, of worms, yellow ?
51. Is it constant, copious, what you drink, what you eat, difficult, painful,
periodic, spasmodic, violent, forcible slow in coming on, sudden, coming
on quickly ?
52. When does it come ?
53. After eating, after drinking, after chill, from choking, from coffee, from
cold, with colic, in convulsions, with cough, with cramps, during teething,
with eructations, with eruptions on the skin, after exercise, during
expectoration, in fever, from pain, from colic, when hawking, with heat,
with hiccough, lying down, rising up, sitting up, standing, from motion, in
the morning, when riding, after sleep, from smoking, before stool, on
stooping, with sunstroke, swallowing, with thirst, with weakness ?
54. Is there anything, any position, food or drink, or application that aggravate
the vomiting, or relieves it ?
55. Are there any accompanying troubles ?
56. How does it affect you ?
Make a full statement of anything else that may occur to you regarding the
vomiting.
57. Waterbrash (pain or hot feeling in the stomach with a rising of water to the
mouth).
58. When does it come on ?
59. What is the amount ?
60. What is the taste ?
61. How does it affect you ?
Section 17
The Stomach
The stomach is situated below the lower part of the breastbone, or beneath the
depression known as the pit of the stomach.
Section 18
Abdomen
The abdomen is the belly, that part of the body between the chest and the pelvis.
In troubles of the abdomen consult Sections 4, 6, 15, 16. For the external
abdomen, consult Section 32.
Section 19
Urine and urination
The bladder is situated behind and extends a little above the bone in the middle
lower abdomen. If painful describe as in Section 6.
Describe any trouble, pain or sensation in the urethra (the canal through which the
urine passes). Describe any discharge from the urethra as in Section 7. Consult
also the questions in Sections 36 and 37.
The kidneys are located on either side of the backbone (spinal column) in front of
and more to the upper part of the small of the back, a little above the level of the
navel. Describe any pain, sensation or trouble in the region of the kidneys as in
Sections 6, 4 and 5.
1. Does the desire to pass urine come on at any particular time, or from any
known cause ?
2. Is there any pain with the desire ? (Section 6.)
3. Does the urine flow easier in any particular position or under any special
circumstances ?
4. Do you have desire to pass urine but cannot ?
5. Does it flow freely in a stream, or in drops ?
6. Does it flow at once or must you wait ?
7. Is there any thing that you must do to help the flow starrt ?
8. Does it flow slowly or come in a gush ?
9. Is the desire urgent or can you easily wait ?
10. Have you involuntary urination during the day, at night, while coughing,
sneezing, or at any time ?
11. What part of the night do you wet the bed ?
12. Is there any dribbling or leakage ?
13. At what time do you have most desire to urinate ?
14. Do you have to get up at night ?
15. How often ?
16. Can you pass urine without stool or stool without urine ?
17. Have you no desire to pass urine ?
18. Have you no passage of urine and yet no inconvenience ?
19. Do you feel the stream when passing ?
20. Does the flow intermit, start and stop ?
21. Any straining to pass ?
22. Is the stream even or divided ?
Before urination. Describe any trouble, pain, etc., that always comes on
just before the flow starts. Describe pain as in Section 6.
During urination.
Describe every trouble that accompanies the flow, or that comes on during the
flow.
Do you have any chill, chilliness, any discharge other than the urine, faint feeling,
pain anywhere, shuddering, etc.
The urine.
1. Is the urine acrid (corroding), black, bloody, brown, burning, changeable
in color, clear (limpid, no sediment or color), cloudy, like coffee, cold
when passed pellicle or scum on it, dark, decomposes rapidly, decreased in
quantity, flaky, foamy, frothy, frothy like fine glue, dirty gray, greenish,
high colored, hot, increased in quantity (profuse), jelly-like, light colored,
milky, muddy, pale, red, scalding, scanty, smoky, straw-colored,
suppressed, thick, turbid, violet color, watery, like whey, white yellow ?
2. Mention any difference when first passed and after standing ?
3. What is the smell or odor ?
4. Do you pass gravel ?
Describe the sediment (the substance that falls to the bottom of the vessel)
very carefully as to the Amount, color, consistency, appearance, whether it
varies, and other facts that you may notice.
Section 20
Stool, Diarrhoea, Constipation
Character of Stool : Acrid, (excoriating), with air bubbles, balls, beaded, bilious,
bloody, burning the parts, as if burnt, chalky, changeable, chopped, clayey, coffee
grounds, copious, crumbling, curdled, diarrrheic, difficult to expel, dry,
dysenteric, fatty, fecal, fermented, fetid or foul, flaky, flat, fluid, foamy, focibly,
expelled, frothy, frothy, glassy, like glue, granular, greasy, green scum, gritty,
gushing out, hard, full of holes, hot, insufficient, involuntary, irregular, jelly-like,
knotty, too large in size, lienteric (with undigested food), liquid, long, loose,
lumpy, membranous, mixed, mucus, mushy, narrow in form, noisy (with wind),
odorless, oily, painful, painless, pappy, pasty, like pea soup, periodic (at stated
times other than each morning), pourring out, profuse, purulent (like matter),
recedes (slips back), retained, retarded, like rice water, rough, like cooked sago,
sandy, scaly, scanty (too little), like scrapings of intestines, sheep dung, shreddy,
slender in size, slow, small in form, soap suds, soft, passes better when standing,
passes better when leaning back, starchy, square, sticky, stringy, sudden in
explosion, tar-like, tenacious, thin, thready, triangular, urging desire (cannot wait),
watery, white, with worms.
Constipation.
Diarrhoea.
Is it painful or painless ?
Most of the questions under Constipation (in this section) are suitable for
diarrhoea.
Describe more minutely the quantity of blood and mucus, and the character of the
tenesmus (involuntary pressing down in bowels).
Section 21
Anus, Rectum, Piles
Anus.
Piles. (Haemorrhoids).
Section 22
Lungs and Breathing
1. Is the pain or other trouble in the chest muscles or deep in the lungs ?
Section 23
Heart
Section 24
Cough and Expectoration
Expectoration.
Describe it as in Section 7.
Section 25
Joints
Locate the joint affected and the side the joint is on.
Section 26
Muscles
Section 27
Bones
Section 28
Back
Especially describe the time or position in which the pain comes on.
Also what position or act (like pressure, lying on hard bed, etc.) makes the pain
better or worse.
Section 29
Wounds and Injuries
Section 30
Bleeding
Section 31
Morbid growths, Tumors, Cancers, etc.
In the treatment of these every symptom from head to feet must be known,
therefore nearly every part of this pamphlet must be consulted and symptorns
given as directed.
These troubles can all be cured by the internal homoeopathic remedy when taken
in time.
Cutting them out removes the effect of disease but does not remove the disease
itself.
It is like cutting off the tops of weedsthey will grow again, either at the same
place or in another place.
Section 32
Skin Diseases
This includes all eruptions, pimples, sores, felons, abscesses, ulcers, carbuncles,
boils, warts, morbid growths, tumors, cancer, and all kindred diseases, as these are
all amenable to the homoeopathic internal treatment.
Give location, color and character of any spots or blotches on the skin,
whether very small or large.
34. What is the location, color, size, shape and appearance of any swelling ?
35. Any sensations on skin as itching, burning, pinching, crawling of insects
or bugs, stinging or anything else ? See Sections 4 and 5.
36. Is the skin oily, shining, scaly ?
37. What is the color of the skin ?
38. Is the color permanent or natural ?
Describe pimples, little blisters, etc., as to location, size, contents, appearance, etc.
Section 33
Fever, Chill and Sweat
Section 34
Sleep and Dreams
State when and under what circumstances you are abnormally drowsy or sleepy.
Section 35
For women only
In the treatment of diseases peculiar to women all symptoms from head to feet,
and previous history should be given.
Local examinations and local treatment are seldom required and will only be
made by the homoeopathic physician when really necessary.
In these diseases, as in all others, nature speaks through symptoms which point to
states and conditions well understood by the well-informed physician.
These diseases, like diseases in other parts of the human economy, are amenable
to the internal homoeopathic remedy, they should be treated like those hidden
diseases where the eye of the doctor cannot penetrate, by the language of nature,
by symptoms pointing to the pathological condition and the curative
homoeopathic remedy.
There is no need in the majority of cases for local applications, surgical operation,
pessaries and supports, cauterization, removal of the womb or ovaries, and the
accompanying shock to a true woman's modesty.
All these diseases have been cured by the internal homoeopathic remedy, and they
again may be by the intelligent physician.
We are fully aware that there are conditions and states calling for surgical skill,
but surgery should be the last resort.
While it will require more time to effect a cure by medicinal means, it is certainly
more pleasant, less repulsive to a modest woman, less dangerous, and more in
accordance with the plans of a beneficent Creator.
It has often been said and demonstrated that Homoeopathy is woman's best friend.
It respects her modesty, preserves her womanhood, relieves her of the many
ailments peculiar to her sex and habits, and does it all more pleasantly.
No matter what the disease or trouble may be, the patient should read all
preceding sections and carefully give the totality of her symptoms as therein
directed.
For skin eruptions, spots, hard lumps, morbid growths, cancer, etc., consult
Sections 31 and 32.
For any trouble, pain, etc., state all the facts as to aggravation and amelioration,
Section 5.
Vagina
(the canal which leads from the womb to the external orifice of the genitals).
Ovaries
(the ovarian region is to either side of the womb and above the groins). Especially
consult Sections 4, 5, 6.
State all other troubles. There may be aching, bearing down, boring, burning,
cramping, dragging, drawing, gnawing, grinding, heaviness, hardness,
inflammation, itching (internal), jerking, numbness, pain, pinching, pressing,
pushing sensation, sensitiveness, tenderness, shooting, soreness, stinging, stitches,
swelling, throbbing or beating, twitching, twisting, etc.
The Uterus
(the womb is situated in the middle lower abdomen, behind and extending a little
above the bladder).
In this place it will be well to ask some very delicate, but important questions.
A true answer to these may throw much needed light on the case.
With these, as with all questions, no reply is to be made unless there should be
something abnormal.
1. Were you led into the habit of masturbation (self-abuse) when a child, or
later ?
2. To what extent did you practice it ?
3. Is there undue sexual desire ?
4. Is the sexual desire lost ?
5. Is sexual embrace painful or distasteful ?
6. Has sexual embrace been excessive ?
7. Are there any bad results following (within a few hours) sexual embrace ?
8. If married, how many children ?
9. If no children, do you do anything to prevent them ?
10. How do you prevent having children ?
11. It will be well to fully state everything abnormal about these things, and
ask any questions that may give you needed light.
State the sensation if the womb seems not to be in the proper position.
If there is pain or other trouble in any other part of the body which seems
to be connected with the womb, state particulars and mention what
relation there seems to be.
If so, give the extent, the accompanying troubles, the time and cause, what
relieves or aggravates (Section 5), and the effect upon you generally.
3. To what extent have you worn a pessary or support, and what would be the
effect if you did not wear any ?
For haemorrhage see Section 7 and 30, and "Flow" under Menses in this
Section.
In womb trouble there may be aching, bearing down (or a pushing as though
everything would come out), burning, bursting feeling, contraction, congestion,
cramps, cutting, discharge (see Vagina in this Section), distress, drawing,
enlargement, fullness, heaviness, hardness, inflammation, labor-like pains,
motion, neuralgia, pain, pressure, sensitiveness, soreness, spasms, squeezing
sensation, swelling, throbbing, etc.
Menses (the monthly sickness or period).
To insure a prompt cure it is necessary for patients to be very observing and report
all symptoms as directed in other Sections.
The interval between the menstrual periods is 28 days, counting from the
beginning of one period to the beginning of the next.
Afternoon, day only, evening, lying down, morning, motion, at night only,
walking. Mention anything that affects the flow.
It is very necessary to state whether the accompanying troubles of the menses are
before, during or after the flow.
We mention some of the more frequent troubles occurring at these times.
This refers to the time from the starting to the ending of the flow.
All the troubles mentioned as occurring "Before the Menses" may occur during
the period, and many others.
Many of the troubles referred to above may occur after the menses.
Describe the color, consistency, odor and appearance of the discharge, and
all accompanying complaints.
These are all curable by the homoeopathic remedy, and when thus cured "labor" is
always much easier because it is more natural.
Treatment during this period is not only best for the mother, but is also best for
the future health of the coming child, as well as for future pregnancies.
The healthy woman will have no trouble and the minimum of pain in bearing
children ; normal labor is easy labor.
Report all these complaints as in the various sections of this pamphlet, but
especially consult Sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
Nearly every abnormal condition of the pregnant woman will be found in the
preceding sections.
For morning sickness consult Sections 15 and 16, and state how long
pregnant.
Describe any trouble which may arise during this period as directed in the various
sections preceding, and especially consult Sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
1. At what age did your mother or older sisters pass this period ?
2. If you are now passing it, at what age did it begin ?
3. Do you have flashes of heat ?
4. If profuse flooding, describe as directed in "Flow" in this section, and as in
Section 30.
5. If past the period, how long since ?
6. Did you have any trouble during the climacteric ?
Section 36
For men only
For all complaints, whether local or general, the preceding sections should all be
consulted and every symptom reported as herein directed.
For private diseases of men, Homoepathy offers a more radical cure than any
other system of medicine.
When so called local diseases are suppressed, or disappear under local treatment,
they form the basis of chronic conditions which not only cause much annoyance
and suffering, but are transmitted by heredity and may cause a lifetime of
suffering to the children of lawful wedlock.
Many persons have expiated the sins of the father by years of untold suffering.
"Visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth
generation."
The only sure and reasonable way is to eradicate the disease by internal
constitutional medication. This is the real object of true homoeopathic treatment.
Answer the following questions, when suited to your case, fully, and not by "yes"
or "no", nor by a mere acknowledgement.
25. Have you loss of semen (spermatorrhoea) at night, during stool, or at any
time ?
26. What is the effect of this seminal loss ?
27. Is there a thrill with the seminal loss ?
28. Is the seminal loss during lewd dreams ?
29. Have you indulged your sexual appetite extensively ?
30. Have the parts been injured by a fall or a blow ?
31. Have you ever had a gonorrhoea (clap) ?
32. State the time and treatment, and the state of your health since. Have you
ever had syphilis (pox) ?
33. State the time and treatment, and the condition of your health since. Have
you had buboes, chancre, or ulcers ?
34. Have you had eruptions, sores, warts, etc., since having gonorrhcea or
syphilis ?
35. Locate, state the character and the result. Have you gleet or any discharge
from the penis ?
Describe as in Section 7.
A proper answer to the above, and a full statement of all troubles as directed in the
various sections, are essential to the cure of any chronic disease wherever located.
Do not treat this subject lightly, nor allow your modesty to prevent you telling the
truth. All such information is held in the strictest confidence and is only asked for
because it is of the greatest importance in the successful treatment of your case.
Section 37
Conclusion
To mention all diseases, or all phases of disease, would make this pamphlet too
long and confuse the patient.
From what has been written the patient will see what is necessary to be given, and
that all symptoms, whether great or small, are important.
Nothing has been said of nervousness or weakness, though so common, but the
patient will readily see that he is to give the cause of the nervousness or weakness,
the condition, the time, the extent, what seems to relieve or aggravate and whether
present all the time or only at stated times. So with every other condition or
symptom.
This may seem to be useless to those who are accustomed to the practice of
physicians who prefer to guess rather than to get at the bottom of the trouble.
The old way may relieve the trouble for a little while ; this complete and careful
way is the only one by which diseases, especially chronic diseases, can be
permanently cured.
If the patient desires the surest way to a cure, to get full value for his money, he
must himself go to some trouble to give his symptoms.
The physician cannot be held responsible when important symptoms are withheld
through carelessness or from design.
The reader will remember that all of this pamphlet refers to the sick, or the sick
condition, and not to the well.
Everything herein mentioned has been experienced by some sick person, even
those parts that may seem very ludicrous.
The variations in sick conditions, even though slight, are most important to the
homoeopathic physician.