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Materia Medica Viva Volume 12 – page 2643

Her expression was apathetic. The temperature of her body was always cold. Her pulse was feeble and respiration slow. She had been in this condition for a few days, and I, considering especially the weakness of all the senses which was the most visible symptom of her affection, administered in a hurry a dose of Anacardium 3m. but neither this remedy nor the other, Arsenicum 200, had any effect, and the condition of the patient grew worse. It happened one night that she tried to get up and fell like a corpse; it was necessary to put her back to bed as she was incapable of any action.
While all these symptoms were becoming more intense, another mor- tal one was manifesting itself, in such cases always a prelude of near death, the involuntary emission of the urine and faeces . It seemed that a complete paralysis would be the last consequence as she was of a nervo – lymphatic constitution and more than seventy years old. There was no hope and her family was sure of the imminent loss. I had also almost lost hope, but after a long and diligent study of the Materia Medica, I administered a dose of Hyoscyamus 200, with the intention of passing successively to the potency CM. But it was not necessary, because that dose alone, after having produced an exac- erbation of all the symptoms, was in a little while followed a gradual improvement which after two days brought the patient to a complete recovery. Now, in her old age, she enjoys excellent health.
G. Pimpili.
Convulsions after delivery
Woman, 18 years old. Unmarried. Primipara.
Several hours after normal delivery, patient was seized with severe convulsions. I watched the patient closely for two hours when an- other convulsion occurred. It was ushered in by deep and prolonged sighing, which lasted for several seconds, and in answer to my ques- tions, the nurse stated that the attack which took place before my arrival had begun in a similar way. Ignatia cm Fincke was given in water. The next interval was three hours. This looked encourag- ing, so we waited without repeating the remedy. The next attack however, came in about an hour, and although the remedy was repeated, the convulsions rapidly increased in frequency, until she