degrees (39 deg. C). I gave Belladonna and it didn’t do anything. I am quite worried. ” So George went in and started taking her case. He looked in her throat and it was very red with exudate (pus) all in the back of the throat. With very high fever, she was flushed, red.
George said, “Tell me about the sore throat, where does it hurt, right side, leftside..?” “No, just the whole throat.” “Are you thirsty?” “No, not particularly”. “Do you feel too warm, or too cold?” “No. ” “The pain is on swallowing?” “No, it is all the time.” “You have a cough?” “No, no cough.” “A headache?” “Yes, a bad headache.” “Right side, left side?” “No, just the whole head.”
George went through the case with more and more questions. I thought: it is impossible to find the remedy because there are no symptoms to the case. After about ten minutes asking more and more questions, trying to get any little detail in the case, George stopped and said: “Okay, what do we do now?” I said give penicillin. He said: “All right, I will show you.” and he took out a remedy and gave it to her, and we went for dinner. We were sitting eating dinner for about twenty minutes when she came out of the room.
We asked: “How do you feel?” She said: “1 feel quite well.” “No pain in the throat?” “It is almost gone.” I felt her forehead: no fever at all. She was feeling strong again. I said to George, “But how can you possibly prescribe in an acute case with so much fever when there are no symptoms?” Of course the answer (for those of you that study) is obvious, the remedy was Ferrum phospho¬ricum.’
In a severe acute gastro-enteritis where the bowel motions are very frequent, a child may be totally exhausted very quickly and if the face is red, the pupils dilated, and there is a full pulse this remedy can be indicated. The symptoms of Fer-phos indicate primarily a