The case had been prescribed for by several physicians. A study of
the case brought out the kali carbonicum picture of “coryza with
hoarseness; catches cold at least exposure to fresh air, and with
each cold there is a stitching pain in the pharynx,” and kali
carbonicum 6x trituration cured the case, including the relaxed
uvula. The patient has frequently presented this picture and each
time kali carb. did the work.
Some additional benefit, in lessening the liability to these
attacks, has been secured by the cold sponge bath each morning. Deep
inhalation of fresh air three times a day, to aid in the oxidation
of the food stuffs; and by inculcating the habit of daily attending
to Nature’s demands, whether there is any desire or urging in that
direction or not.
CASE III.—Patient a nervous woman. Suffering from mixed astigmatism
and pronounced insufficiency of the internal recti muscles, which we
oculists denominate an exophoria. Patient suffered terribly from
headaches, almost daily in their occurrence, frequently with nausea.
The muscular trouble was cured by the use of prisms, the mixed
astigmatism corrected by a glass, and there remained a severe
backache. It was located in the small of the back as if there were a
heavy weight pressing there; worse during menses, with bearing-down
pain; patient was obliged to sit down frequently, on account of the
ache. Her physician had prescribed sepia, cimicifuga, and natrum
muriaticum—and in response to a question, “Could the eye treatment
have had anything to do with apparently aggravating the backache?” I
replied, “No; I think the relief of the headache has simply allowed
the attention to be drawn to the backache.” I asked for other
symptoms and one day received a little line stating that the
“backache was worse after eating, and the patient could not walk
much on account of the backache, was obliged to sit down
frequently,” and kali carbonicum was advised. It cured the case.
ATROPHIC RHINITIS.
BY C. R. ARMSTRONG, M. D., THORNTOWN, IND.
Atrophic rhinitis is that chronic disease in which there is a wasting
away of more or less of the mucous membrane, glands, and turbinated
bones, and is generally accompanied by some abnormal conditions of
pharynx and all the sinuses connected with the nasal cavities.
This is no new disease, but one physicians have had to deal with these
many years; one we meet in practice every little while, and one which we
cannot study too carefully, because the treatment for the disease in
many cases ends in failure to cure.
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