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 AND SURGEONS • LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 
 
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 Organ Diseases of Women/ 
 
 Notably Enlargements and Displacements 
 OF THE Uterus, 
 
 AND STERILITY, 
 
 CONSIDERED AS 
 
 CURABLE BY MEDICINES, 
 
 , BY 
 
 ,:^ L 
 
 JC COMPTON BURNETT, M. D, 
 
 X 
 
 AUTHOR OF "TCJIOURS OF THE BREAST," ETC. 
 
 PHILADELPHIA: 
 
 BOERICKE & TAFEL. 
 
 1897.
 
 
 Copyrighted, 1897, 
 By Borricke & Takei.. 
 
 T. B. & H. B. COCHRAX, PRINThK> 
 LANCASTER, PA.
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 /. 
 
 
 For years past I have gone about 
 with the idea of writing a httle treatise 
 on the amenability of the commoner 
 diseases of women to successful treat- 
 ment by medicines administered in the 
 ordinary way by the mouth, and I had 
 worked a little at the task in odd mo- 
 ments from time to time, but its com- 
 pletion was put off for various reasons, 
 and I had almost given it up, when 
 one evening the following circumstance 
 fixed my attention on the subject, and 
 I determined to carry out the idea with- 
 out any further delay. 
 
 It was a Bank Holiday, and I was 
 
 ^7^C3
 
 iv Preface. 
 
 sitting one evening at a little side table 
 in the large dining-room of a well- 
 known London hotel all by myself, 
 when a foreign gentleman came and sat 
 b}- me and took his dinner. I noticed 
 he looked sad, and over the dessert he 
 took up a French journal and began to 
 read ; then he threw it down and sighed 
 deeply. I made a casual remark which 
 almost startled him ; a foreigner in 
 London is apt to become even more 
 reserved than a Londoner, seemingly 
 resenting our insular stand-offishness. 
 He did not speak English, so we drifted 
 into conversation, at first in French and 
 presently in German. "Ah!" said he, 
 "you are a physician, are you; we are 
 badly off in our country for good medical 
 men, particularly for diseases of women. 
 I am dreadfully worried about m}^ poor 
 wife ; I cannot sleep at night thinking
 
 Preface. v 
 
 about it ;" and then he launched out 
 into the following narration: — 
 
 ' ' Some time ago my wife's eyes became 
 weak, and I took her to an optician to 
 get her some spectacles, although she is 
 only 35 years of age. The optician said 
 we must go to an oculist for him to pre- 
 scribe the kind of glasses necessary for 
 the case. 
 
 ' ' Next day I took my wife to Profes- 
 sor X., the noted oculist, and he carefully 
 examined my wife's eyes, and then in- 
 formed me that he could not prescribe 
 glasses for her without a consultation 
 with my family doctor, and to this I ac- 
 ceded. They met the following Wed- 
 nesday at m}^ house, and after an hour's 
 consultation they told me that the eye 
 weakness was from a weakness of the 
 womb, and that I must take her to a 
 specialist for diseases of women.
 
 vi Preface. 
 \ 
 
 ' ' Thereupon I took her to Professor Y. , 
 the eminent speciaHst for ladies' diseases, 
 and he informed me that my wife was 
 suffering from an enlargement of the 
 womb, which was also retroverted, and 
 that the only thing for it was to operate 
 upon her and take the entire womb 
 away. This was a great shock to us, and 
 we could not make up our minds to such 
 a dreadful thing. We determined then 
 to go to Berlin and consult Professor J., 
 who emphatically condemned the pro- 
 posed operation, and prescribed tonics 
 and injections; but these upset her so, 
 for she gets nerve-attacks every time -an 
 injection is used, and so we are in despair, 
 as our family doctor now declares for the 
 operation as the only hope of restoring 
 rx^y wdfe to health." 
 
 I hesitate no longer in sending these 
 pages to the press to try at least to
 
 Preface. vii 
 
 show that medicines can restore enlarged 
 and dislocated wombs to their proper size 
 and position. It is no use to rail against 
 ignorance, — we must ourselves set to 
 work and show the world that there is a 
 better way. 
 
 I maintain, from ample experience, 
 that enlargements and dislocations of the 
 womb are for the most part perfectly 
 amenable to our remedies; and, more- 
 over, the task is not difficult. I have in- 
 cluded the subject of Sterility, as enlarge- 
 ments and displacements are very com- 
 monly its cause. 
 
 J. COMPTON BURNETT. 
 
 86 WiMPOLE Street, 
 Cavendish Square, London, W., 
 Michaelmas, 1896.
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 n^HE uterus or womb being a 
 living organ adapted for 
 special purposes lias peculiarities 
 all its own. In its early life — in 
 fact at any time in its maiden state 
 — its main function is, so to speak, 
 to keep out of the way and obtrude 
 itself upon its owner as little as 
 may be: it has to bide; its day is 
 not yet. Hence the virgin womb 
 is — at any age — if quite healthy, 
 
 A
 
 2 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 and a normally undisturbed part 
 of a normal person — a verj- small 
 affair, and it finds no great diffi- 
 culty in keeping out of the way 
 and out of the reckoning. In 
 shape and appearance, and, indeed, 
 in size it niaj- fairly fitl}' be com- 
 pared to a pretty big inverted pear, 
 but not so oval: the stem of the 
 pear corresponding to the neck of 
 the womb, and the thick end to 
 the body and fundus. The normal 
 virgin womb balloons about within 
 the abdomen out of harm's way : it 
 is lisfht and hollow, and somewhat 
 supported laterall}-, and so long as 
 it is in this happ}' state of un- 
 awakened life, and so long as it is 
 normal in its health, so long is it 
 without trouble and giving none.
 
 Orgati Diseases of Women. 3 
 
 With this normal hollow inverted 
 pear-shaped organ lightly balloon- 
 ing about in its appointed place 
 I have here nothing to do. It 
 is onl}^ when the organ gets ill, 
 enlarged or displaced, and thus 
 troublous and troublesome, that it 
 becomes object of the curative art- 
 
 The orthodox and almost uni- 
 versally believed-in, and practised, 
 treatment of the enlargements and 
 displacements of the womb is 
 surgical and 7necha7tical. Speaking 
 roughly and broadly, supports — 
 pessaries — are inserted and worn 
 to keep up the organ because it is 
 too heavy to remain up in its place. 
 Certain surgical operations are also 
 undertaken for its fixation. In 
 other words, it is reasoned thus:
 
 4 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 Here we have a more or less 
 movable organ that is too heavy, 
 and flops down on to the floor of 
 the pelvis, or even prolapses through 
 the vulva; it must be put back 
 into its place and kept there by a 
 support adapted to the case, and 
 then the patient will be comfortable 
 and able to go about. Or, the 
 enlargement of the womb is on 
 one side only, so that the organ is 
 lopsided and falls over and down- 
 wards, giving rise to a more or less 
 complicated displacement. There- 
 fore, it is reasoned, the organ 
 must be not only supported by 
 an adequate mechanical contriv- 
 ance, but it may be needful to 
 perform certain operations for the 
 purpose of straightening and fixing
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 5 
 
 the organ, and so on. It is in no- 
 wise needful to prove that this is 
 the commonly accepted position of 
 general medicine and surgery at 
 the present day, since no one will 
 deny it. That being so, is there 
 anything more to be said on the 
 subject? How is a thing that is 
 too heavy and fallen down out of 
 its right position, even protruding 
 from the body, to be put back and 
 kept in place in any other way? 
 that is surely common sense. To 
 this my answer is as follows : — ■ 
 
 Instead of regarding the heavy, 
 enlarged, and displaced organ as 
 unalterably heavy, enlarged, and 
 displaced, can we not so use our 
 vast array of remedies to make the 
 organ lighter, to the end that it may
 
 6 Organ Diseases of lVome?i. 
 
 of itself return to its proper place, 
 simph' because it has become too 
 light to remain in its abnormally 
 low position? Sureh^ if an organ 
 is out of place because it is too 
 big and too heav\', its displacement 
 must be due to gravitation, and if 
 we here get rid of its too great 
 weight, it will gravitate back to its 
 right place, even adhesions becom- 
 ing inadequate to prevent its ascent. 
 This is my position in the present 
 volume. It is here ni}^ business to 
 show that this can be done, and to 
 name some of the remedies at our 
 disposal for effecting the same, so 
 that others may, if the}- choose, go 
 and do likewise. There are plenty 
 of scientific homoeopathic and other 
 physicians in the world who have
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 7 
 
 thus regarded and treated enlarge- 
 ments and displacements of the 
 womb any time during the last 
 fifty years, hence I lay no claim 
 to having made a discovery. Hav- 
 ing imbibed the idea of curing 
 enlargments and displacements of 
 the uterus b}^ medicines given in 
 the ordinary way by the mouth., 
 and having succeeded well in so 
 doing, I have thought the matter 
 out for myself so as to come to 
 a clear position as to what it all 
 reall}^ means, and I have systemat- 
 ically treated all my uterine cases 
 during the past twenty j^ears in 
 tlie manner here indicated, and 
 therefore I speak to facts within 
 my own knowledge and experience, 
 and claim a risfht to be heard.
 
 PROLAPSE OF THE WOMB. 
 
 " Homceopathy is very good for women and children." 
 
 npHE first time I ever became 
 aware that a lieav}^ forefallen 
 womb could be in the least helped 
 by medicines was somewhere about 
 the 3'ear 1874, when a kind-hearted 
 district visitor interested me on 
 behalf of an elderly widow, whose 
 life was greatly incommoded by her 
 prolapsed uterus. I treated her 
 with little homoeopathic doses of 
 HeIo7iias dioica for mau}^ months, 
 and the outcome of this treatment 
 was such that I became quite satis- 
 fied that a forefallen or prolapsed 
 womb could be medicinally influ-
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 9 
 
 enced for good. The dear old 
 lad}^ declared that the womb was 
 very much better, and that she was 
 restored to a feeling of comfort in 
 the parts to which she had long- 
 been a stranger. The patient was 
 not suffering from any disease 
 properly so-called, and the uterine 
 region having been rendered com- 
 fortable, patient had no further 
 complaint to make. 
 
 ABOUT Sepia. 
 
 I was not very long after this 
 driving one day into the country 
 accompanied by an eminent clergy- 
 man, a grand old man, and a 
 staunch old homoeopatii, whose 
 benign smile of pity for all non- 
 homoeopaths very much impressed
 
 lo Organ Diseases of Women, 
 
 me, who spoke to me during the 
 drive thus: . . . ''I took my 
 daughter Julia to Dr. X. (an emi- 
 nent gynecologist), because she 
 complained of a pain across her 
 back and local catarrh, and he 
 examined her and told me the 
 womb was enlarged, and that she 
 must wear a support." 
 
 "But surely, Dr., you do not 
 suggest that for a 3^oung woman 
 like my daughter Julia; can you 
 not cure that condition with medi- 
 cines?" 
 
 " No, there is no cure for it 
 except wearing a support." 
 
 " Well, Dr., I cannot consent to 
 such a thing, I must find something 
 better than that ; what do you think 
 of homoeopathic medicines ?"
 
 Organ Diseases of Women, ii 
 
 " Homoeopatliic medicines! what 
 nonsense." 
 
 " Poor man," concluded my 
 venerable friend, "we must pray 
 for the Lord to open the eyes of 
 his understanding that he may see 
 the truth; I gave Julia Sepia for 
 some time, and quite cured her." 
 
 Here the eminent specialist 
 treated the very idea of homoeo- 
 pathic remedies having any good 
 effect in such cases as utter non- 
 sense. For all that the girl's father 
 quite cured her with globules of 
 Sepia. And how could the mighty 
 gynecologist know the effects of 
 homoeopathic medicines since he 
 had never tried them ? The opin- 
 ions of allopaths on the value of
 
 12 Organ Diseases of Womeji. 
 
 homoeopathy are nothing but spite- 
 ful splutter: vulgar and nasty. 
 
 MATER TRIUMPHANS. 
 
 Stevenson's song of the mother 
 is one of jo}^ at her inevitable 
 influence, for . 
 
 " From out of the dainty the rude, the strong 
 
 from out of the frail, 
 Eternally through the ages from the female 
 
 comes the male." 
 
 I have long considered that being 
 a mother is about the biggest thing 
 on earth, but on this point all 
 women do not agree; some willingly 
 face death without daunt in order 
 to become a mother; such a one 
 was the following: — 
 
 A childless lady, nine years
 
 Organ Diseases of IVomen. 13 
 
 married, and who, though childless, 
 had yet had seven miscarriages, 
 with all their attendant miseries ol 
 floodings, grief, and disappoint- 
 ment, placed herself frankly under 
 my care on January 26, 1880, for 
 the purpose of putting a stop to 
 these habitual mishaps, and in the 
 hope of having living children. 
 The late Dr. Smith was of opinion 
 that one-half of this lady's womb 
 was ossified : the curious thing was 
 that patient regularly aborted at 
 5^ months, and the placenta was 
 always adherent. Period normal; 
 some neuralgia of right ovary. 
 The uterus itself was thick and 
 heavy, and one side of it much 
 more rigid than the other. After 
 Alnuin. 3'', and Kali chlor. 6, each
 
 14 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 for a month, she fell pregnant, and 
 with a view of trying to lessen the 
 unilateral hardening of the womb, 
 so that it might properly expand at 
 the right time, I put patient on 
 an exclusively fruit and vegetable 
 diet; but she appeared unable to 
 stand it, and so I allowed her one 
 meat meal a day — one o'clock — 
 but nothing else night and morning 
 save fruit and soft vegetables at 
 will. Big baby boy born Ma}'- 22, 
 1881, and since then she has had 
 five others, all hale and hearty, so 
 she told me the other day (August 
 1893). Of course, patient had a 
 number of medicines to prevent 
 abortion and for her very trouble- 
 some piles — Ferrum 6, yEsculus 
 12, Silicea 12, and Sulphur 30 —
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 15 
 
 but the principal lesson teachable 
 that stands out is the elementary 
 fact, that the organ diseases of 
 women are amenable to drug action, 
 and that diet can be made to play a 
 part in abortion. I kept this lady 
 on very low diet, and on several 
 occasions with her first three 
 children, when abortion or mis- 
 carriage was very imminent, I 
 stopped nearly all food and all 
 drink, allowing only fresh fruit for 
 days together, till the hypogastric 
 tumult had been starved out. 
 With her last three children no 
 treatment and no dietetic pre- 
 cautions were needed or taken. 
 One has not often an opportunity 
 of narrating such a long history as 
 is here possible.
 
 1 6 Organ Diseases oj IVomen. 
 
 SPERMATOPHOBIA. 
 
 This is the other side of the 
 picture of the mater triumphans. 
 The lad}^ whose case I have just 
 narrated, and who has the six 
 bonnie living children, is herself 
 still a very good-looking woman — 
 fresh and pluiiip, and though poor 
 in this worlds goods, is yet proud 
 and joyous, and in her children 
 rich beyond compare. 
 
 THE TRAUMATIC UTERUS. 
 
 One meets with a number of 
 youngish married ladies who are 
 constitutionally sound and are 3'-et 
 great suj6ferers. In May 1880, 
 such a one came to seek my help : 
 she was 26 years of age, had been
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 17 
 
 married five years, was the mother 
 of one child, which was born at the 
 end of the first year of married life. 
 Applied Malthusianisni accounted 
 for the childlessness of the subse- 
 quent four years. Patient, from 
 being of bonnie round figure, had 
 become bosomless ; her spine had 
 two aches, an up and down rhachi- 
 algia and a pain across the back, — 
 the classic uterine backache we all 
 know of. The menses every six- 
 teen days ; the womb thick, sappy, 
 and low-lying ; leucorrhoeal ooze 
 coming from the os. Patient was 
 a mere wreck of her former self, and 
 all for fear there should be too 
 many people born into the world. 
 " No, I will not ; I do not care ; 
 I'd rather die."
 
 1 8 Organ Diseases of IVomen. 
 
 I should have said patient 
 suffered much from insomnia, and 
 had frequent attacks of nerve- 
 tortures. 
 
 I regarded the state as one mani- 
 festly from a battered, misused 
 uterus, and so proceeded therapeu- 
 tically with Hypericum per/. 3'', 
 with Arnica 2, and concluded with 
 Bellis per. i. There was much 
 improvement in the uterine sphere, 
 and the menses had become less 
 frequent. But the spinal irritation 
 was much to the fore : Giiaco 3 
 "did me great good ; it stopped all 
 the sickness and relieved the back 
 very much." 
 
 Then a long railway journey 
 upset the spine a good deal, and 
 flooding set in ; Kali chlor. 6 and
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 19 
 
 Fer. phos. 6 stopped the bleeding, 
 and Cuprum acet. 3"" took the pain 
 away from the side. 
 
 Then came Guaco 3 and BelHs 
 p. I, each a month by itself, with 
 much amelioration. 
 
 There finally remained a condi- 
 tion in ' which almost any excite- 
 ment brought on the poorly time, 
 and this was cured by Cedron 3^, 
 5 drops in water every three hours. 
 To Cedron I was led because pa- 
 tient complained very much of 
 coldness in the abdomen : " Oh, 
 my stomach is so cold " 
 
 Cases like this pass before prac- 
 tical physicians pretty well every 
 day, and the one I have just cited 
 is a mere sample of many like it. 
 There is not any disease properly
 
 20 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 so-called to be cured, but an 
 insulted womb with its attendant 
 worries, and spinal hyperaesthesia. 
 It is not eas}^ to get rid of the neu- 
 rasthenia till the spine is righted, 
 and the enlarged womb has to be 
 seen to before the spine will mend 
 properly, and hence I start with 
 muscle-and-nerve anti-traumatics, 
 utilizing any sound symptom for a 
 differential purpose, aSjir.^., Cedron 
 (cold, etc.). I have somewhere 
 read that it is hard to kick against 
 the pricks, and the wife who cheats 
 nature finds how true this is. With 
 this question I am here, however, 
 not concerned, further than to point 
 out that genesiac fraud causes dis- 
 ease and produces a debased state 
 of the womb ; it becomes too
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 21 
 
 fibrous, hard ; loses its erectility 
 and contractility, and instead of 
 ballooning about in tbe abdomen 
 in happy unconsciousness, it flops 
 down on to the floor of the pelvis, 
 miserable and discontent, and a 
 sorry burden, — it has been cheated, 
 and it verily does not bear it 
 uncomplainingly. This might be 
 designated the Defrauded Womb. 
 It concerns us here because it is 
 almost always enlarged and dis- 
 placed, and hence I think I may 
 profitably add the following little 
 chapter, as it bears on the etiology 
 of many cases of enlarged uterus. 
 
 THE NEMESIS OF PHYSICAL WRONG- 
 DOING. 
 
 During the past twenty years
 
 22 Organ Diseases of IVomen. 
 
 the number of cases in which, 
 married women prevent conception 
 is steadily on the increase ; their 
 many dodges in attaining this 
 end need not be dwelt upon, but 
 the almost uniform results are tjie 
 following : — 
 
 1. The breasts shrivel, and in 
 extreme cases almost disappear: 
 the erstwhile fine bust, the shapely 
 breasts shrink into shocking ugli- 
 ness. 
 
 2. The great female character- 
 istics diminish, and the individual 
 is apt to become hairy in the face 
 and elsewhere, while the rotundity 
 of limb is a thing of the past : the 
 limbs are often scraggy and thin, 
 or, if obese, flabby and old. 
 
 3. The nerves are greatly aflect-
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 23 
 
 ed, there is almost always neuras- 
 thenia, and the once sweet woman 
 becomes irritable and cross and 
 miserable. 
 
 4. Spinal irritation is very 
 common. 
 
 5. The uterus is the greatest 
 sufferer of all : it has been cheated, 
 and resents the wrong done to it 
 with, terrible vigour: it becomes 
 enlarged, hard and gristly^ and is 
 not infrequently the seat of tumours 
 of various kinds. And no woman 
 with such a womb is, or can be, 
 other than miserable and discon- 
 tented, and very frequently there 
 is morning sickness analogous to 
 that of pregnancy, with no end of 
 other dyspeptic troubles. 
 
 The earlier in life the physical
 
 24 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 wrong is committed, the more pro- 
 nounced are the ill effects. I do 
 not preach at these sufferers, and 
 I see very many of them, but I 
 tell them plainly the price that has 
 to be paid for their wrong-doing, 
 viz., mental, moral, and physical 
 deterioration and degradation. 
 
 Neither do I regard the thing 
 from the standpoint of religion, 
 though I have somewhere read, 
 '' Be fruitful, and multiply and re- 
 plenish the earth." This command 
 ma}^ possibl}^ be out-of-date, but 
 this one thing I do know for very 
 sure, that old Mother Nature wipes 
 us all out without merc}^ when we 
 disobey her laws : here, at any 
 rate, the fittest survive. 
 
 If a married woman wants to
 
 Organ Diseases of Women 25 
 
 grow old, ugl}^, and miserable, the 
 quickest and most certain wa}^ I 
 know of is to practice the preven- 
 tion here referred to. 
 
 A subject to be avoided? I do 
 not think so ; I have the deepest 
 sympath}- for suffering woman ; 
 my mother suffered for me, God 
 bless her dear menlor3^ Dixi et 
 aiihnani meam salvavi. 
 
 Now, wh}^ should we avoid this 
 subject of the voluntary limitation 
 of the family ? "There is a time 
 for everything," a very wise man 
 once wrote down for our instruc- 
 tion; here, in a medical work on 
 Organ Diseases of Women, the fact 
 that genesiac fraud causes a debased 
 state of the whole genital sphere, 
 with enlargements and displace-
 
 26 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 ments, its consideration is not only 
 desirable but imperative. 
 
 In my judgment, a young woman 
 who does not wish to bear a family 
 should not get married at all. I 
 know some goody-goody couples 
 who are joined together, not in 
 holy wedlock at all, but ..." We 
 live, and always have lived ever 
 since our marriage,just like brother 
 and sister." Some of them teach 
 in the Sunday School, and do what 
 they are pleased to call "the work 
 of the Lord," particularly when it 
 is taking the chair, or otherwise or 
 elsewhere, but anyway always to 
 the fore. Child-bearing and home 
 duties are shirked by these un- 
 wholesome byproducts of civiliza- 
 tion. They have their reward :
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 27 
 
 Nature wipes them out herself, 
 and labels them for the ultimate 
 sorting, "Depart from me, I know 
 ye not."
 
 28 Orgati Diseases of Women. 
 
 DISPLACEMENT OF WOMB FROM AC- 
 CIDENT : THE ORGAN TWISTED. 
 
 In dislocation of the uterus from 
 accident the sufferings are fre- 
 quently very severe indeed. Thus 
 a married lady came under my 
 observation on May 9, describing 
 to me how eight years before she 
 was touring in Switzerland, and 
 had a fall which was followed by 
 much bearing down and terrible 
 pains across the hypogastriura. 
 With this there was much irritation 
 of the bladder. She suffered these 
 horrors for three years before she 
 could summon up courage to go to 
 a doctor. Finally the pains drove 
 her to an eminent London gyne- 
 cologist of world-wide reputation.
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 29 
 
 This gentleman failing to even 
 relieve her, she consulted a second 
 physician, and he also failed, and 
 considered she would never get well 
 owing to the intricate nature of the 
 complaint. The uterus and every- 
 thing seemed as if they were 
 being dragged out of her body. 
 Homoeopathy she despised and 
 ridiculed, and it was only after 
 eight years of suffering that she 
 overcame her prejudice and con- 
 sulted me. In addition, besides 
 the forenamed symptoms, there 
 was a peculiar form of leucorrhoea 
 coming on every four or five days 
 " in little torrents of thick yellow 
 discharge," 
 
 Secale cornutum f" cured this 
 case so rapidly and completely that
 
 30 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 the displacement must be regarded 
 as having been most probably a 
 twist of the parts. 
 
 There was no mechanical inter- 
 ference on my part whatever, and 
 the cure proved permanent. 
 
 That Secale was homoeopathic to 
 the case no competent person will 
 deny, especially if he has ever seen 
 the effects of a full dose of ergot 
 on a parturient person, who has a 
 strong back and plenty of muscle.
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 31 
 
 ENLARGEMENT OF BOTH OVARIES, 
 ENLARGED UTERUS, APHONIA, 
 RETENTION OF URINE, ETC. 
 
 There are two or three points 
 in some cases of women's diseases 
 that require to be thought out and 
 worked out separately, or the suf- 
 ferers enter the category of the 
 uncured, and are orthodoxly la- 
 belled incurable. 
 
 What schoolmen cannot cure is 
 incurable, that must be evident; 
 what they do not kuow is not 
 knowdedge. A married lady, 
 26 years of age, mother of 
 three children, was brought to me 
 from a distance on May 12, 1893, 
 . . . "My cousin is just a 
 wreck."
 
 32 Orga7i Diseases of Women. 
 
 Patient was of fine stature— what 
 the French call large — of tender 
 fibre, her tissues having large 
 meshes Such people look much 
 more healthy than they really are, 
 and very commonly they are the pro- 
 duct of a cross between a powerful 
 individual and a consumptive one ; 
 the dash of consumptiveness is 
 shown in their growth-largeness ; 
 the}' are large-celled and lacking 
 in toughness. It was so in this 
 case: her father died at 29, of 
 phthisis; her mother is well and 
 strong. Patient had had measles 
 twice ; influenza twice ; and had been 
 three times vaccinated; and only last 
 year had had scarlatina. At her 
 first confinement she was fearfully 
 lacerated, and was subsequently
 
 Organ Diseases of Womeji. 33 
 
 sutured in five places. The case 
 being ver}'- complicated, let us take 
 it in sections from above down- 
 wards : — 
 
 1. Complete aphonia for some 
 weeks, cannot produce any sound 
 beyond a very slight indistinct 
 whisper. 
 
 2. Left lobe of liver considerably 
 enlarged and very tender. 
 
 3. Tongue mapped and very 
 pippy; by mapped tongue I mean 
 the so-called lingua geographica. 
 
 4. Spleen moderatel}' swelled. 
 
 5. Very constipated, and much 
 pain in back and sides. 
 
 6. Pretty bad haemorrhoids. 
 
 7. The uterus is enlarged. 
 
 8. The right ovarian region is 
 the seat of a tumid mass rather
 
 34 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 bigger than my fist ; the left one 
 also, which is very painful. 
 
 9. There is severe but intermit- 
 tent leucorrlioea. 
 
 10. The period is too frequent 
 and excessive. 
 
 11. And the crowning misery of 
 this unfortunate lady was total 
 iuabilit}- to pass water for the past 
 two months, being obliged to use 
 the catheter. 
 
 12. Many nerve-symptoms more 
 or less distressing; and as these 
 seemed to be largel}'' due to her 
 overcome two attacks of influenza, 
 I started my therapeutic campaign 
 with Cyp7'ipedin 3'', 6 grains three 
 times a day. 
 
 Cypt ipediuni pnbescens^ Cypri- 
 pidin^ and Scutellaria lai., and
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 35 
 
 Scutellarin^i have long been my 
 sheet-anchors in post -influenzal 
 neuroses. 
 
 This bettered the neurotic part 
 of the aphonia, and also the consti- 
 pation, and patient was altogether 
 brighter in her nerve life. 
 
 The spleen being swelled, and 
 patient having at times some inter- 
 mittent febrile movement,! followed 
 with Urtica ureiis (gtt. xx. in die)^ 
 and the more readily because of the 
 retention of urine. This started a 
 critical curative diarrhoea, under 
 which the spleen became normal 
 and the piles disappeared, and the 
 aphonia lessened somewhat further. 
 The retention of urine no better. 
 
 The retention being due, at any 
 rate in part, to a swelling of the
 
 36 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 circuni-urethral tissue, which I have 
 at times reduced with the aid oiSaw 
 palmetto ^, I gave this in 5-drop 
 doses four times a day, but it did 
 no particular good ; and hence I 
 studied the case somewhat further, 
 aud because patient woke up with 
 the pain between 3 and 4 A m., the 
 tongue being mapped in the centre, 
 I gave Mai. 30 in infrequent dose. 
 The mappiness of the tongue dis- 
 appeared under Mai. 30, but the 
 pips stood out very prominently, 
 and she now stated that she was 
 worse in the evening. This was 
 June 9, 1893, ^^d under July 3 I 
 find this note: . . . " Has twice 
 lost her voice ; tongue very much 
 furred of a morning ; constipation 
 quite gone; piles gone."
 
 Organ Diseases of IVomen. 37 
 
 5kJ Arnica i, 10 drops in water 
 night and morning. 
 
 August 14. — Voice quite well 
 these four weeks; bowels normal; 
 still inability to pass water, though 
 the pain at the time of passing it 
 is much less, the quantity more 
 natural. Very severe leucorrhoea, 
 causing great inconvenience. In- 
 somnia. 
 
 ^ Med. 1000. 
 
 September 1 1 . — Voice normal ; 
 sleeps better; the pain in the side 
 still comes on in the night; very 
 much troubled with the whites; 
 still unable to pass water; left lobe 
 of liver tender. 
 
 5^ Chelone glabra 0. 
 
 October 16. — No great change. 
 
 5? Zincum acet. d.
 
 38 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 November 24. — Period scanty; 
 anorexia; breathless; palpitation of 
 the heart ; still cannot pass water 
 naturally. 
 
 1^' Hydrastinin. mur. 3", 5 drops 
 in water night and morning. 
 
 January 22, 1894. — "I have no 
 pain in my side at all, ever; I pass 
 water quite freel}^ at times, but not 
 alwa3's; piles and constipation very 
 badly." 
 
 R Sulphur 30 (infrequently). 
 
 March 2. — Piles and constipation 
 cured ; very bad whites ; micturi- 
 tion normal. 
 
 R" A/rd. 1000. 
 
 This finished the cure. Patient 
 remained well, and in November, 
 1894, had another baby, and there- 
 after no trouble.
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 39 
 
 ENLARGEMENT OF WOMB; DROPSY 
 OF LOWER EXTREMITIES. 
 
 Mrs. X., 43 years of age, mother 
 of a family, came to me on October 
 21, 1 89 1, complaining of having fre- 
 quently aborted, and of "weak heart, 
 considerable swelling of lower ab- 
 domen, and dropsy of the lower 
 extremities." She wears a pessary 
 to keep up the heavy womb, as 
 otherwise she cannot walk. Severe 
 leucorrhoea. It seemed to me that 
 the heart was not at fault, but that 
 the entire trouble lay in the en- 
 largement of the womb. She had 
 lost a favourite child — her only boy 
 — and was bowed down with grief, 
 which latter called certainly for 
 Ignatia. The pressure of the
 
 40 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 huge uterus, however, called for 
 Bellis. 
 
 1^' Ignatia am. i and Bellis per. 
 ^, 20 drops of each daily in alter- 
 uation. 
 
 November 4. — Distinct improve- 
 ment in ever}^ way ; leucorrhcea 
 much better ; can walk better. 
 
 During November and Decem- 
 ber she had Hcionias ^ and Arnica 
 I, when she was very much better, 
 and exclaimed, "My swelled stom- 
 ach is as flat as a pancake." Leu- 
 corrhcea and dropsy gone. No 
 longer needs any pessary. 
 
 Bacillinum CC. followed, and 
 under this the left leg swelled 
 again. Early in 1892 she had a 
 few weeks oi Fraxinus Ajuericanus 
 ^, 10 drops twice a day, and was
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 41 
 
 then ill capital health, and function- 
 ally regular. 
 
 The B acillinuni was given be- 
 cause of the pippy state of her 
 tongue, and did good to her con- 
 stitution, but did not influence the 
 uterus, which was merely in part 
 subinvoluted and in part bruised 
 from much use. I should have 
 stated that she had morning sick- 
 ness off and on so long as the 
 uterus was so greatly enlarged. 
 
 In merely organ diseases consti- 
 tutional treatment is not indicated, 
 and is therefore useless ; but a 
 battered, bruised uterus yields 
 quickly to anti-traumatics such as 
 Bellis perennis and Arnica mon- 
 tana. And the organ remedies 
 appropriate to the Vit&rMS— He lonias 
 
 D
 
 42 Organ Diseases of JVomen. 
 
 dioica and Fraxiniis Ajnericanus — 
 quickly cured tlie hypertrophy of 
 the organ. And in the case of 
 organ remedies, small material 
 doses act best, — indeed brilliantly; 
 such remedies also need to be 
 repeated at short intervals. On 
 the contrary, organ hypertrophies 
 from constitutional causes are not 
 curable by organ remedies at all 
 until the constitutional disease has 
 been cured by infrequently re- 
 peated high dilutions of remedies 
 closely homoeopathic thereto. 
 
 I am often asked why I dis- 
 approve of the use of pessaries, 
 and my reply is ... I do not dis- 
 approve of pessaries if nothing else 
 can be done, but a pessary is only 
 a make-shift of a highl}^ objection-
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 43 
 
 able nature; it is better to enjoy 
 locomotion with tbe aid of a pes- 
 sary than to lie on a coucb and 
 slowly become an unwholesome 
 mass of tissue. But a pessary cures 
 nothing, and not only does it cure 
 nothing, but it tends to render 
 the big heavy organ bigger and 
 heavier still ; the real indication is 
 to set about reducing the size and 
 weight of the organ, until it is light 
 enough to go up to its normal posi- 
 tion. And my contention is that 
 this can be done, and the task is 
 not even difficult; but it cannot be 
 done without organ remedies, and 
 also it cannot be done without 
 constitutional remedies when the 
 hypertrophy is of constitutional 
 origin.
 
 44 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 Some of 111}' critics have sug- 
 gested that the use of organ 
 remedies by me, learned largely 
 from Rademacher, constitutes a 
 falling awa}' from my faith in 
 homoeopathy, and one writer speaks 
 of Rademacher as "Dr. Burnett's 
 new love." As a matter of fact my 
 acquaintance with the works of 
 Rademacher and with those of 
 Hahnemann fall within a year of 
 each other, and the standpoint of 
 each is true at the bedside. 
 Hahnemann is a hero to me, but 
 so is Rademacher ; is Rademacher 
 small because Hahnemann is 
 great ? 
 
 Now I find myself often unable 
 to cure simple organ diseases with 
 dilutions ; but I also find myself
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 45 
 
 unable to cure tHe great constitu- 
 tional diseases with organ remedies, 
 and from very close observation, 
 and not a little experience, I main- 
 tain that the organopathy of 
 Rademacher (/.^., of Paracelsus) is 
 just elementary homoeopathy, the 
 degree of similitude being very 
 small, wherefore small material 
 doses are needed in fairly frequent 
 repetition. As the degree of 
 similitude increases so must the 
 dose of the remedy be lessened. 
 
 Let me now take a case of 
 enlargement of the womb from 
 constitutional cause to illustrate 
 my meaning. A complicated case 
 like the last but one cannot be 
 cured by any one remedy, and it is 
 absolutely impossible to get a
 
 46 Organ Diseases of IVomen. 
 
 simile of the whole case under 
 one remedy, since the symptoms 
 are from different origins, and 
 of diverse pathological qualities. 
 Hahnemann saw this clearly 
 enough, and hence the Coethen 
 phase of homoeopathy. 
 
 But to my constitutional case. 
 
 SUBINVOLUTED UTERUS FROM CON- 
 STITUTIONAL CAUSE. 
 
 A married lady, 29 years of 
 age, mother of one child two 
 years and nine months old, was 
 brought to me by a lady friend 
 of hers, an old patient of mine, for 
 a sad state of womb disease that 
 had baffled all attempts at cure. 
 The uterus was very much enlarged 
 from subinvolution dating from her
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 47 
 
 only pregnancy, and in whicli the 
 placenta had been adherent; tlie 
 rectnm was packed full of piles 
 that bled often very severely, and, 
 besides this all, patient often had 
 leucorrhoea and profuse monthly 
 periods; vulvar and rectal regions 
 deeply pigmented; inguinal and cer- 
 vical glands like so many marbles. 
 Her general condition one of great 
 debility, and, moreover, she was 
 very thin; her friends had given 
 her up as a hopeless case. " No 
 hope, I suppose," said her friend to 
 me privately. 
 
 It was quite evident that though 
 the case was one of womb enlarge- 
 ment, this enlargement was only a 
 part, and only an insignificant part, 
 of the case.
 
 48 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 The prime element in this case 
 was that constitutional state which 
 lay behind the placenta praevia; 
 this became more manifest after 
 Bellis perennis ^ and Sepia 5 had 
 failed to do any great good (during 
 the month of July 1892). 
 
 At the beginning of August 
 things were very bad, and patient 
 had again lost flesh. The duski- 
 ness of the body, the evening 
 febrile movement, the emaciation, 
 led me to give Bacillin. (CC), 
 under which remedy patient lost 
 her fever and put on flesh. Then 
 under TImja 30 she lost ground, 
 and I went back to Bacill. (C), 
 and kept her under its influ- 
 ence for a number of months — 
 when, thereafter, Fraxmus Ameri-
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 49 
 
 canus in small material doses 
 brought the womb back to its 
 right size, and to-day patient is 
 plump and well, and has again 
 resumed her wifely position, for 
 which she had been so long unfit. 
 The phthisic element in this case 
 could only be met dynamically by 
 a remedy of high similitude, and 
 although the constitutional element 
 in the case had been really and 
 radically cured by the high potency 
 of the pathological simillimum, 
 still the womb remained enlars^ed. 
 The organ was then met with 
 an organ {i. e.^ womb) remedy — 
 Fraxiniis Americanus in small 
 material doses — and the cure was 
 complete, the organ returned to 
 its normal size. August 1896,
 
 50 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 patient continues well and is en- 
 ceinte. 
 
 Contrariwise I will now adduce 
 a very simple case of a hugely 
 enlarged uterus, so bad that patient 
 was sent home to England for the 
 express purpose of having h3^ster- 
 ectomy performed upon her, and 
 for all that there was no constitu- 
 tional disease, and a simple organ 
 remedy amply sufficed to secure 
 complete restoration to health. 
 
 excessive enlargement of the 
 womb: the organ to be re- 
 moved BY operation. 
 
 Two or three years ago — rather 
 more perhaps — a lady resident in 
 London was in the habit of con- 
 sulting me about her skin and
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 51 
 
 about her children's ailings. We 
 had many friendly chats, and 
 latterly she was often tearful and 
 seemingly in much distress. What 
 is the matter? said I. 
 
 Oh ! my favourite sister is so 
 very very ill, the doctors have but 
 very little hope of her. 
 
 This kind of thing recurred 
 repeatedly, and finally she told me 
 that all the doctors had decided 
 that nothing but a very severe op- 
 eration would now avail anything, 
 and arrangements had been made 
 to have it carried out forthwith, 
 and rooms had been engaged off 
 Cavendish Square for the purpose. 
 
 Great operations on women are 
 common enough, and I did not 
 heed the lady's laments very much,
 
 52 Organ Diseases of IVoynen. 
 
 and I should not have done so had 
 she not broken down with grief, 
 and begged me to see whether 
 the terrible operation could not 
 be averted. '' The}- are going to 
 take the whole womb right away, 
 it is so big that the body cannot 
 contain it, and all the five doctors 
 declare that that is the only thing 
 that can be done." 
 
 It was arranged that the patient 
 should be brought to me on the 
 following Monday, the operation 
 being fixed for the Tuesday. 
 
 Mrs. John X., mother of six 
 children, aet. 38, was brought to 
 me in July 1892. She came — was 
 brought, that is— merely to please 
 her heart-broken sister, and to
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 53 
 
 prove to her that nothing could 
 possibly be of any service save the 
 formidable operation to be per- 
 formed next day. 
 
 Briefly, it was a case of a hugely 
 hypertrophied uterus, that was so 
 much in excess of the space Nature 
 had for its storage, that the unfor- 
 tunate lady could do nothing what- 
 ever, and it was barely possible to 
 even keep the immense mass some- 
 what propped up with the aid of 
 a very large pessary. The womb 
 had been scraped by one eminent 
 surgeon, systematically curetted by 
 another, and vigorously cauterised 
 by a third, but it seemingly only 
 got bigger. 
 
 There had been at one time a 
 severe rent in the womb at one
 
 54 Organ Diseases of Wotnen. 
 
 of her confinements; later on there 
 was adherent placenta, and there- 
 upon followed divers floodings, till, 
 when I examined her, the uterus 
 was big. hard, heavy, and thick. 
 
 Patient was well preserved in 
 person, and quite free from disease 
 in the ordinary sense, and, in fact, 
 apart from the huge uterus, she 
 was fairly well in herself, except 
 that she was pale and anaemic from 
 her too frequent periods. 
 
 I had the very greatest difficulty 
 to persuade the lady that I thought 
 medicines would quite cure her, 
 and that such a terrible muti- 
 lation of her person was not 
 necessary. 
 
 "But the operation is fixed for 
 to-morrow morning!"
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 55 
 
 "What if it is? Have it put 
 off, at any rate." 
 
 " But I have come all across the 
 world for the purpose of having 
 the operation done; it's too late to 
 alter now.'' 
 
 The lady could not be persuaded 
 to have the operation postponed, 
 inasmuch as she had come over 
 on purpose, and she had been 
 terribly tortured with her poor 
 womb, and she had borne the long 
 voyage bravely, in the joyful anti- 
 cipation of being finally rid of the 
 unbearable burden for good and 
 all. 
 
 " How old are you?" said I. 
 
 "Thirty-eight." 
 
 " And your husband, is he a 
 worn-out old man ?"
 
 56 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 " Oh dear, no, not at all ; he is 
 really a 3'oung man still, and very 
 strong." 
 
 " And you are going to have 
 yourself thus mutilated, — you with 
 a strong j^oung husband ?" 
 
 The contemplated operation was 
 abondoned for a tiyne, to see 
 whether our medicines would do 
 any good. 
 
 I removed the pessary, and 
 ordered the lady 5 drops of the 
 strong \\\\(iX.wx^o{ Fraximis Ameri- 
 canus three times a day in water. 
 
 In a week already the operation 
 was given up provisionally ; in 
 three weeks all idea of an operation 
 was given up as certainly needless ; 
 and in seven weeks the patient
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 57 
 
 could, and actually did, go to Scot- 
 land, and there took long walks on 
 the moors without even a backache. 
 The womb had simply diminished 
 to about its normal volume, and 
 gravitated back into its proper 
 place, — and this under the sole 
 influence of one medicine only — 
 viz., the Fraxinus Aniencajms^ at 
 first in 5, then in 6, and latterly 
 in lodrop doses. 
 
 Patient had formerly had a good 
 deal of Quinine^ and was very cold 
 and chilly; this was cured by Nat. 
 mur.. 6 trit. She had been three 
 times vaccinated, and was sycotic. 
 Thuja occid. 30 and ^(2/. (C.) cured 
 this state, and on one occasion I 
 gave her Ig7iatia amaj^a ^, but all 
 this was subsequent to the cure 
 
 E
 
 58 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 of the womb by Fraxi'nus Am. I 
 dwell upon this to make it quite 
 clear that the patient was cured 
 of the uterine hypertrophy, and 
 was running about on the Scottish 
 moors, rejoicing in her new-found 
 liberty, solely from the use of little 
 material doses of one organ remedy 
 — Fraxiniis Americanus. 
 
 More than three years later — 
 December 1895 — an aunt of this 
 lady called upon me on her own ac- 
 count, and on my inquiring after my 
 Fraxiniis patient, she exclaimed, 
 "Oh! she is splendid, and her 
 social duties are very heav}^, owing 
 to her husband's official position. 
 Nobody can understand it." 
 
 No physician can demand a
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 59 
 
 better clinical result than this, and 
 my contention that organ remedies 
 cure organ diseases stands again 
 confirmed ; and I again contend 
 that it lies within the homoeopathic 
 sphere of influence. Not that I 
 claim to hold a brief for homoeo- 
 pathy ; for if homoeopathy be not 
 the very best thing in drug thera- 
 peutics, then let it be swept away ; 
 only it seems to me that organo- 
 pathy and elementary homoeopathy 
 are identical, and that the heather 
 for the besom that shall sweep 
 homoeopathy away is not yet 
 planted. " Shall we give up the 
 law of homoeopathy and revert to 
 chance again ?" So exclaimed one 
 of the reviewers of my " Diseases 
 of the Livery Not at all, dear
 
 6o Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 friend; but also do not let us give 
 away so big a bit of the founda- 
 tions of our homoeopathic house as 
 is included under the term speci- 
 ficity of seat, or organopathy. 
 
 Whether it lies within homoeo- 
 path}', as I contend, or not, it is 
 true — very true — at the bedside, 
 and that is good enough for me. 
 It will not cure constitutional dis- 
 ease at all whose environment is 
 the macrocosm, but it sets right 
 the relationship of the organ to the 
 microcosm, the organism. 
 
 ENLARGED WOMB DISTURBING MIC- 
 TURITION, WITH SEVERE VOMIT- 
 ING. 
 
 The mother of six children, 72 
 years of age, sister of Sir William 
 X., came under my observation on
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 6i 
 
 November i8, 1890, for insomnia 
 and vomiting. The region of the 
 pylorus being tender had led to the 
 diagnosis of cancer of the pylorus, 
 which appeared fully supported by 
 the patient's semi-cachectic appear- 
 ance. There was also some dulness 
 on percussion in the pyloric region, 
 and cruel attacks of dyspepsia came 
 on in the night. 
 
 There seemed little doubt as to 
 the diagnosis, particularly as there 
 was at times a very foul uterine 
 discharge. 
 
 The womb was very large and 
 anteverted, pressing on the bladder 
 and causing much distress, as pa- 
 tient was often unable to pass water 
 except in the erect position, the 
 body being poised so as to take the
 
 62 Organ Diseases of Women, 
 
 pressure off the bladder. From my 
 knowledge of the family consti- 
 tution I was disposed to attribute 
 most of the lady's symptoms to the 
 bladder and uterus, which certainly 
 were very distressingly to the fore : 
 it seemed to me probable that the 
 flatulence, fermentation, vomiting, 
 and nocturnal attacks of vomiting 
 might ver}^ well have their origin 
 in the hypogastrium. This view of 
 the sequence of the symptoms in 
 the case was supported by patient's 
 narration that she had formerly 
 suffered much from leucorrhoea, 
 and that a number of years after 
 her change of life she had a bad 
 discharge from the womb, and 
 which was got rid of with the aid 
 of vaginal injections.
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 63 
 
 I ordered Bursa past or is ^, 5 
 drops in water every four hours, 
 and later on 6 drops night and 
 morning only. Patient was com- 
 pletely restored to health thereby, 
 and no other remedy was needed or 
 given. At first sight such a thing 
 seems next-door to impossible, but 
 when we note that the Shepherd's 
 Purse is a very splendid uterine 
 remedy, we understand how it 
 would be possible, which experi- 
 ence confirms. 
 
 This lady remained to my knowl- 
 edge quite well for years, — indeed, 
 I believe she is still alive. To this 
 case I should have liked to append 
 a few remarks on the suppression 
 of whites by injections as a cause 
 of disease, for this case was clearly
 
 64 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 of such an origin, but I must leave 
 that for a little further on. My choice 
 of Bursa pasloris was because it is 
 very apt to set up uterine discharge, 
 and as I have before shown, it is 
 most certainly a uterine medicine. 
 Moreover, it seemed to me, from 
 patient's narration, that the nature 
 of the case was gouty rather than 
 cancerous, which the sequel has 
 proved : there had been a gouty 
 catarrh of the endometrium ; this 
 was refused outlet as leucorrhoea, 
 and so it was reflected back on to 
 the duodenal region. A brother 
 of this lady, now turned 80 3'ears 
 of age, is my patient, and he is 
 for years snbject to urethrorrhoea, 
 certainly of a gout}^ nature and 
 autochthonous. Had it not been
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 65 
 
 for this side-light on the case, I 
 should most certainly have accepted 
 the more serious diagnosis of cancer 
 of the pylorus. 
 
 The aid to a correct diagnosis of 
 a given case afforded by a due 
 regard to the organ, b}^ itself and 
 quoad the other organs, and to the 
 organism, is very great; at times 
 a correct diagnosis is, without such 
 appreciation, impossible. Science is 
 constantly adding to our knowledge 
 of the hierarchy of the organs ; thus 
 some lately performed experiments 
 by a French observer show that the 
 spleen is of all organs of the body 
 the most highly endowed with 
 oxidizing power, next comes the 
 liver, and in third place only the
 
 66 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 lungs. And with the increase in 
 our knowledge come forth new 
 physiological facts, showing that 
 each organ has a function all its 
 own for the benefit of the organism. 
 This is well seen in the case which 
 follows, and purely from the clini- 
 cal side. 
 
 BAD LEG ; ENLARGED UTERUS ; 
 INTERMITTENT LEUCORRHCEA ; 
 AGUE CAKE ; FRONTAL HEAD- 
 ACHE. 
 
 An unmarried lady, 48 years of 
 age, came to me in March, 1895, 
 for a bad leg. The bad leg con- 
 sisted of a flat 7nass of quite small 
 varicose veins about the left ankle, 
 constituting a flat tumor raised 
 about a quarter of an inch above 
 the level of the skin. Towards
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 67 
 
 evening this varicosic mass burned 
 a good deal. Patient changed 
 fifteen months before her visit to 
 me, but suffered from intermittent 
 leucorrhoea, and when the leucor- 
 rhoeal discharge came on the burn- 
 ing in the varicosic lump was in- 
 tense. The uterus was moder- 
 ately enlarged ; general health ex- 
 cellent, barring the flushes, which 
 were trying. Patient came because 
 she was much concerned about the 
 varicosic mass on her ankle, which 
 would, she had been informed, be- 
 come a " bad leg." The very mod- 
 erate enlargement of the womb did 
 not sufficiently account for the 
 mass in question, and the burning 
 in it seemed curious, notably the 
 great burning in it when theleucor-
 
 68 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 rhoeic discharge was active. I have 
 elsewhere maintained that leucor- 
 rhcea is freqnentl}' connected with 
 the spleen. A distinguished physi- 
 cian has tried to ridicule this, but 
 I am still of the same opinion, and 
 here reiterate the statement that 
 leucorrhoea is frequently connected 
 with the spleen, and this case 
 strongly confirms this view. Find- 
 ing that patient's spleen was 
 swelled, I enquired if she had ever 
 had ague? "Yes, in India, ten years 
 ago." The leucorrhoea I regarded 
 as from this spleen enlargement, 
 and I also thought the varicosic 
 tumour was likewise due to the 
 state of the spleen. 
 
 Pulsatilla ^ is a most useful 
 organ remedy for the womb after
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 69 
 
 the change of life, when there is 
 no period to be disturbed and 
 when the organ is moderately en- 
 larged. During the menstrual life 
 it is apt to be too disturbing, and 
 must then be used in dilution if 
 homoeopathically indicated. Miss 
 X. took Pulsatilla ^, 5 drops in 
 water night and morning, for a 
 month, and it did good to the 
 womb, and the whites and flushes 
 were a little improved; but patient 
 complained ver}^ much of feeling 
 cold, though the weather was 
 warmer than it had been (April 
 10). The spleen swelling seemed 
 to me to be the primary seat of 
 the mischief, and hence I ordered 
 Urtica urens ^, 5 drops in water 
 night and morning, and it very
 
 70 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 soon became manifest that the 
 hypothetical diagnosis was correct, 
 for the spleen came down in size, 
 the chills disappeared, the varicosic 
 swelling waned, and patient and 
 physician were both delighted. 
 Subsequently when Urlica had 
 seemingly exhausted its action, and 
 something appeared to bar the way 
 to a complete cure, I made further 
 inquiries, and elicited the fact that 
 Miss X. had been four times vac- 
 cinated, and that her headache was 
 much worse in the morning. The 
 Pulsatilla had much improved the 
 headache at first, but it returned. 
 The Urtica did it no good, but 
 Thuja 30 in infrequent doses cured 
 the headache right off and com- 
 pletel3\
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 71 
 
 Then Ceanothus Americanus i 
 was given for some time — several 
 months — and when I last saw 
 patient she was practically well. 
 A very small bit of the varicosic 
 swelling alone remained, for which 
 I ordered some remedy which I 
 have not noted. I often pass Miss 
 X. in the street, and to judge by 
 her looks and pleasant greetings I 
 have no doubt she is well. 
 
 Before this goes to press I may 
 have an opportunity of asking her 
 whether anything still remains of 
 her ailings,'^ 
 
 CASE OF PLEURODYNIA OF LEFT 
 SIDE. 
 I desire here to add a v/ord or 
 two more or less apposite to the 
 
 * Not since seen.
 
 72 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 question as to whether the spleen 
 stands in an}^ relation to the 
 uterus. I maintain that it does 
 (see my Diseases of the Spleen). 
 
 The submammary pain — the 
 classic "pain under the left breast," 
 and its equally classic remedy, Cim- 
 icifuga — indicate a certain relation- 
 ship between the uterus and upper 
 part ofthe left side in women. "Pain 
 intheside" is very vague, but many 
 ladies complain to me of it. In this 
 case the pain was located under the 
 left ribs — /.r., in the spleen region 
 (spleen enlarged); the pain was 
 worse periodically (every third day) , 
 but never absent. Patient fortnerly 
 suffered from leucorrhoea. From 
 the history ofthe case I was led to 
 give Bellis perenjiis 0. It did a
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 73 
 
 little good; but tlie pain returned, 
 and then disappeared under Tub. t. 
 C. (patient was losing flesh, had 
 hectic flush of cheeks, worse in 
 . the afternoon). All periodicity 
 left, and then followed Cimici- 
 ftiga I, Thuja 30, Sabiiia 30, and 
 finally. Tub. t. C. When the pain 
 had gone, the spleen was normal, 
 and Miss C. had gained many 
 pounds in weight, and since con- 
 tinues well. Here the pain in 
 the side came subsequent to the 
 disappearance of the leucorrhoea, 
 and from the remedies that acted 
 curatively I feel sure it was a case 
 of sycosis (hydrogenoid constitu- 
 tion) and psora mixed.
 
 74 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 SUBINVOLUTED UTERUS; HEMOR- 
 RHAGE; BACKACHE. 
 
 A gentleman, resident in South 
 America, formerly a patient of mine, 
 sent his young wife home to be here 
 placed under my care for serious 
 ill-health. This was August 1894. 
 Patient had borne a dead boy in the 
 previous June, and had got very low 
 from haemorrhage, which had never 
 left off since the miscarriage. 
 
 The enlargement of the womb is 
 considerable, the backache very bad, 
 the haemorrhage severe, and with 
 this, patient has lost a good deal of 
 flesh ; her skin (of covered parts) 
 very deeply pigmented; her in- 
 guinal glands enlarged. 
 
 The diagnosis here was perfectly
 
 Organ Diseases of Womeii. 75 
 
 clear, viz., a very much enlarged 
 womb. 
 
 Now, it might be supposed, from 
 my many laudations of organ medi- 
 cines, that I should forthwith give 
 this patient a good organ remedy, 
 such as Bursa pastoris^ Helonias 
 dioica^ Fraxmus Am.^ Aletris far- 
 inosa ; but I did not, and this brings 
 me to a very important part of my 
 task. But, perhaps, I had better 
 record the case first, and comment 
 upon it afterwards. 
 
 15? Tub. t. C. This was my first 
 prescription on August 31. 
 
 Sept. 17. — The haemorrhage has 
 ceased entirely ! 
 
 I^ Fraxinus Americatius ^, 6 
 drops in water three times a day. 
 This caused a considerable diminu-
 
 76 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 tion in the size of the womb, with 
 corresponding amelioration in the 
 backache. Then the first prescrip- 
 tion of the Tub. t. C. was repeated, 
 and continued for some time. In 
 the winter Saw pabnetto ^, and 
 thereafter Quassia ^, when in the 
 following June patient returned to 
 her husband restored to compara- 
 tive health.''' 
 
 The cardinal point in this narra- 
 tion lies in the fact that I did not 
 first give an organ remedy in a 
 small material dose, and why? 
 
 Because, though there was an 
 
 *This lady's husband wrote to me in 
 August 1896, saj'ing that my patient con- 
 tinued well and was expecting to be confined 
 very shortly.
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 77 
 
 organ disease, it was not primarily 
 a disease of the organ, but one of 
 the organism, and from the organ- 
 ism, though located in the organ 
 as well as in the organism. Organs 
 may be affected in themselves and 
 of themselves, and their ill-influence 
 goes thence into the organism, and 
 in such a case organ remedies are 
 the indicated curative agents. 
 
 As the organ is ill of the organism 
 and from the organism, and consen- 
 taneously with it, here the primary 
 ailment is organismic, and must be 
 treated with the homoeopathic simil- 
 limum, which in this case was 
 Tuberciilintim testium^ and, as the 
 curative influence sought for was of 
 a high degree of similitude, a high 
 potency was used, viz.. Tub. t. C.
 
 78 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 And the result ? Quick cessa- 
 tion of the urgent symptoms, viz., 
 haemorrhage, and this being thus 
 radicall}' cured, general improve- 
 ment at once set in. At the bottom 
 of the whole thing lay a tubercular 
 state of the endometrium, mani- 
 fested by the deeply pigmented 
 state of the anal and vulvar regions, 
 and by the feelably hardened state 
 of the inguinal glands. Moreover, 
 patient's sister was formerly cured 
 b}'- me of phthisis with Bacilliniitn., 
 and her case is narrated in my 
 New Cure of Consumption ; and, 
 by the way, this lady has since her 
 cure borne two more bonnie chil- 
 dren, and is to-day in good health. 
 
 The pathologic simillimum is the 
 furthest point 3'et reached in drug
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 79 
 
 therapeutics, and embodies a very- 
 great and fertile idea. 
 
 After the organismic tubercular 
 taint was cured by the Tub. test.^ 
 there remained the uterine hyper- 
 plasia, and this was then adequately 
 met by Fraxinus Americanus. 
 
 In fine, I would summarize the^ 
 whole thing thus : — Where the 
 organ-ailing is primary to the 
 organ, use organ remedies in little 
 material doses frequently repeated ; 
 where the organ-ailing is of a piece 
 pathologically with that of the 
 organism, use the homoeopathic 
 simillimum in high potency in- 
 frequently repeated. That is how 
 I work, with much satisfaction and 
 delight, at the curative results so 
 obtained. /V
 
 So Organ Diseases of Women, 
 
 UTERUS enlarged; BACKACHE; 
 GREAT DEPRESSION OF SPIRITS. 
 
 A maiden lady, set. 38, came 
 over from Ireland to be under my 
 observation. The chief and most 
 troublesome symptom was depres- 
 sion of spirits of a somewhat severe 
 type. As this lady had been four 
 times vaccinated, and was niiich 
 upset by travellings I began with 
 Thuja occid. 30. 
 
 At her next visit she told me she 
 was much less unhappy, but that 
 her backache was very terrible. 
 An examination showed the womb 
 to be thick and heavy, its neck 
 very pulpy, and the backache was 
 worse between 10 to 11 a.m. 
 
 The depression of spirits and the
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 8i 
 
 thickened state of the womb both 
 seemed to call for Aurum^ and this 
 I ordered thus : ^ Aur. 7net.^ 3 
 trit., gr. vj., one powder night and 
 morning. 
 
 May 12. — The neck of the womb 
 is much less pulpy to the touch, 
 and patient is bright. 
 
 "^Rep. 
 
 June 25. — " I am so much better; 
 I can run up and down stairs 
 without my back aching as it used 
 to do ;" and as to depression, " I 
 am quite jolly." 
 
 Said her brother-in-law to me 
 sometime thereafter, . . . . " You 
 made a fine cure of my wife's 
 sister ; we are all very grateful, for 
 we quite expected we should have 
 to put her into an asylum."
 
 82 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 Said a colleague of mine the 
 other day (he loves me not), " Oh ! 
 Dr. Burnett gives everybody Thuja 
 for what he calls vaccinosis, and he 
 gives it in the thirtieth dilution, 
 which science has proved to contain 
 no medicine at all ; and as for his 
 fad ' vaccinosis,' it has no place in 
 any nomenclature of diseases." 
 
 To which I reply ... If a 
 perfectly healthy person, who has 
 never been vaccinated, is liable to 
 catch small-pox ; if we now vaccin- 
 ate that perfectly healthy person, 
 rendering him practically immune 
 against small-pox ; wherein does 
 the change consist ? In something 
 that is more than perfectly healthy ? 
 That is inconceivable. It seems to 
 me that the change wrought is a
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 83 
 
 pathological one, and I call it 
 vaccinosis. 
 
 Thuja occidentalis is homoeo- 
 pathic to that morbid state, viz., 
 to vaccinosis, as has been proved 
 man}^, many times. The thirtieth 
 dilution of our remedies is a very- 
 powerful therapeutic weapon, and 
 has been a thousand times scienti- 
 fically demonstrated, and is scienti- 
 fically demonstrable to anyone with 
 a mind. 
 
 But what is the use of troubling 
 one's self to reason with a medical 
 individual such as my said col- 
 league, who stoutly maintains that 
 eczema is a local disease of the skin 
 which he cures with an ointment !
 
 84 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 CASE OF CONSUMPTION WITH NIGHT 
 SWEATS FROM SUPPRESSED LEU- 
 CORRHCEADUE TOSUBINVOLUTED 
 UTERUS. 
 
 I hold very strong opinions on 
 the question of intro-vaginal injec- 
 tions : they are altogether damnable 
 and pernicious, shallow in concep- 
 tion, wrong in theory, and harmful 
 in practice. 
 
 A married lad}-, about 30 years 
 of age, mother of one child, came 
 to see me on February 5, 1891, for 
 consumption. The case was quite 
 a clear one, offering no difficulties 
 of diagnosis : patient had a bad 
 cough, night sweats, bloody expec- 
 toration, a tender spot in the right 
 lung, as nearly as may be where
 
 Orga7i Diseases of Women. 85 
 
 the right bronclius begins to ramify. 
 She has an affectionate, wealthy 
 husband, who had the most eminent 
 lung specialists of Europe to attend 
 his wife; she had wintered in the 
 South of France and in Algeria, 
 and the thing had been kept at bay, 
 but no cure had resulted, and the 
 wasting process went on. 
 
 ]^ Bacilliniim C. 
 
 March 2. — Was much better, 
 but has a fresh cold and is worse 
 than ever. 
 
 gj Bacill. 30. 
 
 17. — Urine thick, sedimentous; 
 still coughs; nocturnal perspira- 
 tions, no better, break out at 
 3 A. M. ; period normal, bowels 
 normal, but she is pale and cold. 
 
 5? Urtica ur. ^, which seemed to
 
 86 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 cure lier; but on May 14, some 
 slight pulmonar}^ haemorrhage with 
 the expectoration alarmed the 
 family,and I went over the case care- 
 fully afresh, and came slowl}^ to the 
 conclusion that the pulmonary affec- 
 tion was from whites, suppressed 
 wnth intro-vaginal injections, and 
 not primarily a pulmonar}^ case at 
 all. To find the primary starting- 
 point of any ailment is of the high- 
 est importance, deny it w^ho may. 
 
 Bj Med. CC. 
 
 In a week the lad}^ wrote telling 
 me that since taking the powders 
 she had got a good deal of pain in 
 her back, lasting for an hour or two 
 each da}^, viz., from 12 to 2 p.m., and 
 some coloured discharge had come 
 away like shreds of skin. " I had
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 87 
 
 less of the pain to-day, but to-night 
 at dressing time (7.30) a larger 
 piece came away, and I thought it 
 well to send it to you to let you 
 see [it was a piece of fluffy, 
 shreddy tissue covered with mucus 
 and blood, size of a haricot bean]; I 
 had the same sort of thing for some 
 time when I was recovering from 
 my confinement, about eight or 
 ten weeks after it, and was then 
 recommended to syringe with sul- 
 phate of zinc and alum, which 
 soon cured (!) it. This time it 
 began after the period had been 
 over for one day; my back feels 
 better to-day." The medicine to 
 be finished. 
 
 Jime 2. — Still coughs; the expec- 
 toration is yellow, thick; the tongue
 
 88 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 white, and the cough worst in the 
 early morning. 
 
 R' Med. looo. 
 
 Result, perfect cure. 
 
 FIVE YEARS LATER. 
 
 Patient continues quite well of 
 her lungs, and is indeed in splendid 
 health, and has borne two bonnie 
 children since her cure. 
 
 UTERUS RETROVERTED, GREATLY 
 
 ENLARGED ; DYSMENORRHCEA ; 
 
 CHILDLESSNESS. 
 
 Where childlessness is the mal- 
 ady to be cured, the sterility being 
 due to the womb being thick, 
 heavy, and retroverted, hyster- 
 ectomy at an}^ rate is no cure.
 
 Organ Diseases of Women, 89 
 
 Surgeons are at a good deal of 
 pains to explain to the anxious 
 husbands that marital privileges are 
 not barred by total hysterectomy. 
 
 Wh}^ no, certainly ; of a kind, 
 but, . . . fi donc^ the mere 
 notion is revolting. 
 
 The case before me now is that 
 of a married lady, 27 years of age, 
 two years married, and childless. 
 I found the uterus enlarged and 
 retroverted, which amply accounted 
 for both dysmenorrhoea and steril- 
 ity. Patient had numerous little 
 lumps on her scalp, and a lipoma 
 on her left hip, size of an oyster ; 
 patient was also troubled with seat- 
 worms, and was thin, had evening 
 flushes, and in addition to this she 
 
 suffered from hay fever. Very 
 G
 
 90 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 scurfy scalp. A good deal of indi- 
 gestion, and moist palms. I first 
 treated the lady's constitution for a 
 year, during which period she had 
 BacilL CC. (for three months) , Saw 
 palmetto ^, and Mai. CC, when 
 she was much better in a general 
 way, but no sign of a pregnancy. 
 Followed Aur. met. 3"", which did 
 the uterus much good ; and after 
 Thuja 30 and Saw palmetto ^ she 
 fell pregnant, one year and seven 
 months after coming to me. A 
 fine boy arrived in due course ; 
 and two years later a friend of hers 
 exclaimed to me one day, " Oh ! 
 Mrs. X has another baby."
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 91 
 
 STERILITY ; MISSHAPEN UTERUS ; 
 PERIOD IN ABEYANCE. 
 
 A married lady, 28 years of age, 
 came to me on February 11, 1891, 
 telling me that she had been mar- 
 ried five years, but was childless, 
 to her great regret. Her uterus 
 seemed to have no cervix at all, 
 and although 28 years of age and 
 five years married, she had had 
 only seventeen or eighteen 
 monthly periods /;/ her life^ and 
 none at all for the past eleven 
 months. 
 
 For ten years she had had a fixed 
 pain in the left side of the abdomen, 
 just under the ribs. The pain was 
 constant, and dated from enteritis 
 of ten years ago. Patient had suf-
 
 92 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 fered very mucli from hysteria, and 
 is very thin, pale, washed-out and 
 very depressed. 
 
 There being much dulness on 
 percussion in the painful spleen 
 region, I started with Urtica urens 
 ^, lo drops in water twice a day. 
 
 February 19. — After beginning 
 with the tincture, the side pain 
 became much worse ; but in four 
 days all pain and swelling had 
 gone. ..." Something seems 
 to have gone down in my left side." 
 
 Rep. 
 
 March 10. — The pain in the left 
 side now comes and goes, and is 
 relieved by fomentation. 
 
 ^ Thuja 30. 
 
 April 2 T)., 1891. — More pain. 
 
 3? Bursa pastoris ^, 7 drops in
 
 Orga7i Diseases of lVome7i. 93 
 
 water night and morning. This 
 restored the menses, and patient 
 felt herself very much stronger. 
 
 May 28. — The period continues, 
 but is very painful. 
 
 5kJ Pulsatilla 0, 6 drops in water 
 at bedtime. 
 
 yuly 21. — Has just returned from 
 the Continent, and during her 
 absence has had two periods. Her 
 spleen is still very large ; she is 
 chilly ; her breasts are now " much 
 more natural," and the whole ab- 
 domen also. 
 
 ]^ Bellis pereniiis ^, 10 drops in 
 water in the morning on rising. 
 
 August 26. — No period. 
 
 The case has no further point 
 of interest be3^ond the fact that the 
 lady since then has borne two
 
 94 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 bonnie children ; and when her 
 sister came to me on her own 
 acconnt not long since, I sent a 
 reproachfnl message complaining 
 that the children had not been 
 shown to me, and that I should 
 have been glad to know how the 
 uterus had behaved ; but the mes- 
 sage the other daj;- came back: . . . 
 "Tell the doctor ni}^ children require 
 all ni}- time and attention ; I have 
 no time to spare to come to him! " 
 
 CASE OF STERILITY CURED BY 
 
 Aurum. 
 
 A married lady, 28 3'ears of age, 
 came under my observation on 
 January 19, 1893, to be treated 
 for sterility. She bore a dead 
 child two years ago, and there
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 95 
 
 had been no conception since. 
 Patient's husband is a much re- 
 spected allopathic surgeon, who 
 does "not believe in homoeopathy 
 at all, you know;'' but still, "must 
 confess that it seems very good for 
 women and children." 
 
 Patient suffers very severely from 
 leucorrhoea, ever since her thir- 
 teenth year. Her husband has 
 never had syphilis. The whole 
 uterus is swelled, and the entire 
 fore-uterine region very tender to 
 the touch. Patient once lay on 
 her back for three years on ac- 
 count of her womb, 
 
 5? Aur. mur. 3'', .^iv., 5 drops 
 in water night and morning. 
 
 March 12. — Enceinte! and feels 
 very well and full of jo}^ for she
 
 96 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 had already almost given up the 
 hope of having a family ; a good 
 deal of nausea. 
 
 R' Thuja occid. 30. 
 
 April 27. — Doing well, but the 
 morning vomiting is very bad in- 
 deed, almost an illness in itself. 
 
 Bj Med. 1000, which promptly 
 and completely cured the morning 
 sickness. 
 
 Med. 1000 for this ailing is a 
 grand friend in need and indeed ; 
 many a time ladies have written 
 for " those powders that cure morn- 
 ing sickness," and this is the 
 remed}'. The dose is not to be 
 lightly repeated ; in this case the 
 first dose aggravated, the third was 
 followed by a cure.
 
 Organ Diseases of Women, c^j 
 
 TROUBLES OF PREGNANCY. 
 
 These are very manifold, accord- 
 ing to the constitution of the 
 expectant mother, a7td according 
 to the constitution of the father. 
 This latter may look fanciful, but 
 it is a clinically verifiable fact. 
 Where there is much inconvenience 
 it is as well to find out by actual 
 palpation and percussion whether 
 the bowels, kidneys, liver, or 
 spleen are mechanically or func- 
 tionally at fault. 
 
 No case of severe vomiting of 
 pregnancy should be given up as 
 hopeless unless Medorrh. C. and 
 CC. in very infrequent dose has 
 been tried. In my experience no 
 other 07ie remedy meets such a
 
 98 Organ Diseases of Wome)t. 
 
 large percentage of these cases 
 ciirativel}'. 
 
 Why ? The history of the affects 
 of the marital urethral lining will 
 not infrequently give the answer: 
 the urethral lips will be found too 
 red and swollen, and when held apart 
 bridles of sticky mucus testify to the 
 former presence there of Neisserian 
 cocci. Of course, there are many 
 other causes of this pregnancy- 
 vomiting and retching, and then 
 other remedies will be needed. 
 
 Bellis percnnis in the INCONVENI- 
 ENCES OF PREGNANCY. 
 
 It happens to some ladies when 
 they are enceintes that they find it 
 very inconvenient to get about, 
 walking being very irksome and
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 99 
 
 almost impossible. In such cases 
 the Daisy soon sets matters right. 
 I mean, of course, when the 
 cause of the trouble lies in the 
 mechanicalcircumstances,andthese 
 are of a remediable kind. One 
 severe case of trouble during 
 child-bearing I treated with many 
 remedies, including Bellis^ and was 
 greatly disappointed: however, the 
 event showed the cause of my 
 failure, viz., all the trouble arose 
 from the long legs of the foetus, 
 that at birtn were very much bent, 
 and the difficulty at birth was the 
 shoulders, and that after the head 
 was born. 
 
 I sent a lady some Be His i, 
 because, being far gone in the 
 family-way, she found locomotion
 
 loo Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 so very tiresome; a very short walk 
 quite overcame her. A fortnight 
 or so thereafter I received the fol- 
 lowing report: — "The Bellis did 
 me so much good; I can walk quite 
 well now, and do not get tired or 
 stiff." 
 
 Here its action was prompt and 
 satisfactory, with no inconvenient 
 side-effect or after-effect, />., truly 
 specific. Why did I give Bel/is in 
 such a case ? Merely because the 
 inconvenience complained of was 
 due to mechanical pressure : the 
 tissueswerepressed upon, and there- 
 fore in a condition precisely like 
 that of a bruise — hence I gave my 
 old friend the Daisy — bruisewort ; 
 z.e.^ it acts upon the muscular fibres 
 of the blood-vessels and upon the
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. loi 
 
 tissues, and thus clears the line of 
 these mechanical obstructions. 
 
 Arnica montana \^ and i, I have 
 often used in like manner, and 
 with almost identical results. 
 
 ENLARGEMENT AND DISPLACEMENT 
 OF THE UTERUS; PERI-UTERINE 
 HEMATOCELE. 
 
 A married lady, 25 years of age, 
 came to me on March 4, 1892. 
 She had been two years married, 
 and was childless. She handed me 
 the following note: — 
 
 " Mine has been considered a 
 case of tubular pregnancy, but is 
 now called an effusion of blood from 
 the Fallopian tube, left side, and 
 which the doctors have told me
 
 I02 Organ Diseases of JVomen. 
 
 could not be cured without an 
 operation; but hearing from Mrs. 
 R. of your successful treatment of 
 her case, I feel anxious to come to 
 you." 
 
 [Mrs. R.'scase wasoneof ovarian 
 tumour of left side, and is narrated 
 ill 111}' Curability of Tumours by 
 Medicines; and, by the way, Mrs. R. 
 has continued in good health to this 
 day, and quite free from tumour.] 
 
 I found a tumid massin theregion 
 of the left ovar}^, size of a man's 
 fist; tlie uterus enlarged and pulled 
 over to the left, the cervix almost 
 obliterated, and its posterior wall 
 bulging backwards on the rectum, 
 and thick and hard. 
 
 Patient's period was said to be 
 normal, though there was a browny
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 103 
 
 discliarge from the vagina between 
 whiles. 
 
 There was in this case a very 
 obvious constitutional background 
 to the disease-picture here pre- 
 sented ; the state was not merely 
 one of an enlarged womb, and 
 merely displaced by its weight, but 
 the hsematocele had also to be 
 reckoned wnth in its co7istitutional 
 causation. 
 
 Now, patient's father died at 48 
 of fistula, which may fairly be 
 assumed to be of a tubercular 
 nature ; a number of her brothers 
 and sisters died in infancy ; her 
 tongue was very pippy in its 
 anterior half. 
 
 Patient was put under Bacill. 
 CC. for a month.
 
 I04 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 April I. — The lump is much 
 smaller; she feels sick and bilious. 
 Still many pips. 
 
 R Fragaria vesca ^, 5 drops in 
 water night and morning. 
 
 April I'] . — The brown discharge 
 has ceased. 
 
 R' Sabina 30. 
 
 May 27. — Period normal; watery 
 whites; lump still there, though 
 smaller. 
 
 ^ Arniea montana i'', 5 drops in 
 water night and morning. 
 
 June 24. — Less watery whites ; 
 many pips. 
 
 R Bacill. CC. 
 
 July 22. — Tumour gone, but the 
 womb is still heavy. 
 
 Rf Fraxinus Aniericanus ^. 
 
 August 27. — Discharged cured.
 
 Organ Diseases of Womeit. 105 
 
 What the after-history of this 
 lady is I do not know, but I have 
 just written to Mrs. R. to enquire, 
 and I will add her reply, if I get it 
 in time. 
 
 Mrs. R. writes me to the effect 
 that she has lost sight of Mrs. C, 
 and can therefore give me no 
 information. This matters really 
 but little, as she was quite cured 
 by our remedies, which is the point 
 at issue, and there is nothing 
 more to be said. Still it affords 
 me a certain amount of satisfaction 
 to be able to vouch for the per- 
 manency of the cure of any given 
 ailment; more particularly is this 
 the case with tumours cured by 
 medicines, which so many are un- 
 
 H
 
 io6 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 able, or refuse or profess to be 
 unable to believe Mrs. R. had 
 herself been condemned to be oper- 
 ated upon by the most eminent 
 specialists, and her cure by medi- 
 cines declared and proclaimed to 
 be impossible. And yet she was 
 so cured! 
 
 In cases of considerable extrava- 
 sations of blood, such as this case 
 of peri-uterine hsematocele, the con- 
 dition must be first tackled from 
 the constitutional standpoint. The 
 same reasoning applies to constitu- 
 tional haemorrhoids: it is inade- 
 quate to treat the varicosis till the 
 constitutional taint has been cured.
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 107 
 
 ENLARGED UTERUS OF CONSTITU- 
 TIONAL CAUSE; SPERMATOPHOBIA. 
 
 On February 6, 1889, a married 
 lady, mother of four children, came 
 under me for pains in the breasts at 
 the period, constipation, enlarge- 
 ment of uterus, palpitations, and 
 great weakness ; her horror of child- 
 bearing could only be described as 
 awful; an all-consuming life-par- 
 alysing dread. She was very thin, 
 and might be described as having 
 absolutely no breasts, owing to 
 practices arising out of her pain- 
 fully obtrusive spermatophobia. 
 
 Closely regarded, this mental 
 state was probably due to actual 
 disease, and prompted by the in- 
 stinct of self-preservation. Two
 
 io8 Organ Diseases of IVomen. 
 
 brothers had died of phthisis, and 
 she herself had pneumonia last 
 year. The life-long constipation was 
 practically a substantive disease. 
 
 B^ BaczlL C. 
 
 March 8. — "I am very much 
 better; I feel stronger, able to walk; 
 m}^ appetite is better; but very little 
 pain in the breasts, and . . . will 
 any one be able to believe it f ' 
 
 I confess I hardly like to pen a 
 statement of facts that take so 
 much believing. The life-long con- 
 stipation — for which she had been 
 almost dosed to death with aperi- 
 ents — was a thing of the past, and 
 the action of the bowels was per- 
 fectl}' normal. She had been three 
 times vaccinated, ergo. Thuja 30. 
 
 April 8. — Bowels quite regular.
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 109 
 
 ''The first powders quite cured my 
 constipation." She is of opinion 
 that the first powders were remark- 
 ably good aperients, and says the 
 last powders do not act so well on 
 the bowels as the first. 
 
 B.^ Bacill. C. 
 
 May 8. — Bowels costive again ; 
 breasts seem slightly increased. 
 
 ^ Sabina 30. 
 
 June 26. — Bowels regular. " I 
 am so much stronger." 
 
 The constitutional cause having 
 been got rid of, Helonin 3"^, Bel/is 
 percnnis ^, and Hydrastis Cana- 
 densis^ followed as organ remedies, 
 and Bacill. C. was once repeated ; 
 and twenty-six months from the 
 beginning of the treatment patient 
 was well and plump, and w^as dis-
 
 no Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 charged cured. A last request from 
 her was to be allowed to have some 
 of the BacilL C. powders to keep 
 by her in case of need ! 
 
 It is often curiously interesting 
 to notice how a given patient will, 
 during a course of treatment, pick 
 out a particular remedy with 
 almost unfailing certainty, and this 
 always impresses ni}' mind afresh 
 and again, since there is no pos- 
 sibility of doubting the evidence. 
 For where is the " personal mag- 
 netism," the " personal equation," 
 here ? Where the faith, and 
 where " the influence of mind on 
 matter?" 
 
 This patient had powders at 
 different times containing on a 
 number of occasions very infre-
 
 Organ Diseases of Women, iii 
 
 quent doses of Bacill. C (in fact, 
 two or three a montli), and on other 
 occasions the medicament was 
 Thuja 30 or Sabina 30 (also three 
 a month), and yet she knew the 
 difference between the powders 
 from their influence, while to look 
 at they were identical. 
 
 A very great many of the 
 homoeopathic practitioners of the 
 world refuse the right of citizen- 
 ship to my dear Bacill. They do 
 not discern its virtues. Not a few 
 declare that the higher potencies 
 contain nothing, and are conse- 
 quently therapeutically worthless. 
 And the smug smile of satisfaction 
 on their visages as they chuckle over 
 the iteration of this hoary old lie ! 
 
 Buttonhole these wonderful per-
 
 112 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 sons, fix your eye upon their weak, 
 sniggering faces, and ask them for 
 their proofs of their surprising 
 statement that high potencies are 
 therapeuticall}^ nothing, and . . . 
 and . . . what? Yes, it's a fact, 
 
 THEY HAVE NEVER TRIED THEM ! 
 
 Helonias in enlargements of the 
 
 UTERUS, with urinary TROUBLE. 
 
 In all cases of simple organ dis- 
 eases one of our greatest difficulties 
 is to know which organ remedy is 
 really indicated. How is one to 
 find out? From the provings, no 
 doubt, but with most of our remedies 
 the provings do not tell us enough. 
 Rademacher, following Paracelsus, 
 used to maintain that it was im- 
 possible to know without organ-
 
 Oi'gan Diseases of Women. 113 
 
 testing, partly because tlie spiritus 
 epidemicus morborum so often plays 
 a part in diseases. Many of the 
 cases of urinary troubles that come 
 before us are primarily from the 
 womb being enlarged and too 
 heavy — and hence dislocated, and 
 producing irritation at the neck of 
 the bladder, with frequent desire 
 to micturate. 
 
 Frequently in dysuria from an 
 inflamed state of the urethra I find 
 Triticum repens'^' ^,10 drops in a 
 little water, frequently repeated, of 
 prompt effect, often giving complete 
 relief in a few hours, and if the 
 ailment is primary to the urethra 
 
 * Agrimony appears to act very like Triti- 
 cum repens.
 
 114 Organ Diseases of Women, 
 
 the relief is an abiding cure ; if from 
 a tugging of the heavy womb, the 
 ailment returns again and again,— it 
 is only relief and not a cure. This 
 is true always in the use of organ- 
 remedies for organ-diseases : unless 
 the ailment is primary to the organ 
 acted upon by the organ-remedy, 
 we only attain transitory relief. 
 This I have often before pointed 
 out, and here we need not go any 
 wider afield into higher homoeo- 
 pathy. 
 
 Heloni)i fits well cases of urinary 
 trouble arising primarily from a too 
 heavy womb. Thus a maiden lady 
 of 32 years of age came under my 
 observation on August 22, 1892, 
 for frequent distressing micturition 
 she had backache, the womb was
 
 Organ Diseases of Women, 115 
 
 heavy, the urethra swelled, and her 
 urine contained mucus. 
 
 Helonin '^ in 6-grain doses very 
 promptly cured all the symptoms, 
 although they had existed for sev- 
 eral years. 
 
 NOTE ON Triticum repens. 
 
 This is our common couch grass 
 that is such a plague to the farmer, 
 and yet if such a farmer has an 
 irritable bladder he will walk over 
 his couch grass, and travel a dis- 
 tance to see a doctor, often getting 
 no help, for school-learning too often 
 engenders contempt for the simple 
 weeds under our feet. My pro- 
 fessor of pharmacology, a very 
 learned man, never taught me 
 anything about the virtues of
 
 1 1 6 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 couch grass. I learned it in this 
 wise in dispensary practice : — A 
 middle-aged man came to my dis- 
 pensary seeking relief from dys- 
 uria so severe that it greatl\- in- 
 terfered with his occupation. I 
 prescribed for him and he ceased 
 attending. Sometime thereafter 
 his wife consulted me on her own 
 behalf, when I enquired after her 
 husband's dysuria. "Oh," said she, 
 " he is quite well, thank 3'ou, sir." 
 I referred to ni}' notes of his case 
 to see what had wrought the cure, 
 when the good woman exclaimed, 
 somewhat testily, "Oh, your little 
 pills did not do him any good ; 
 Mr. Fraser cured him." Now, ]\lr. 
 Fraser was a local herbalist who 
 kept a little shop in a back street;
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 117 
 
 and, needless to say, I had very- 
 great contempt for him and his 
 wares, and I was strongly of 
 opinion that the law ought to 
 prosecute him as a quack, as his 
 very existence was a scandal. 
 Well, thought I, I will not be 
 beaten on my own ground b}' any 
 one, and so I made enquiries of Mr. 
 Fraser as to what the medicine 
 was that had cured the dysuria, 
 and he informed me that it was 
 a decoction of couch grass. And 
 since then I have often admired 
 the wisdom of our legislators and 
 of the public at large who refuse 
 to interfere with such humble and 
 useful citizens as our herbalists 
 commonly are. Dr. Robert T. 
 Cooper tells me that an infusion of
 
 ii8 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 couch grass is highly esteemed, and 
 much used b}- British herbalists as 
 a bladder medicine. I have used 
 it these twenty years, and declare 
 it to be a splendid medicine in 
 dysuria. 
 
 I will just relate one case: — A 
 lady, widow of a notable London 
 physician, suffering from complete 
 procidentia uteri and very bad 
 haemorrhoidal bleeding, wrote to 
 me one da}- from the country to 
 sa}^ that she was driven almost 
 mad with painful micturition ; the 
 burning and straining were truly 
 awful. Triticiiju repeiis ^, in lo- 
 drop doses frequentl}- repeated, 
 brought a most grateful letter, with 
 the request that she might have 
 a suppl}^ to keep by her in case
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 119 
 
 of need in the future. She keeps 
 a bottle of the tincture now in her 
 bedroom in case of need ! " Oh ! 
 what a marvellous medicine," said 
 she to me one day. 
 
 Many very learned physicians do 
 not believe in medicines. Just so ; 
 a man may be a splendid mathema- 
 tician without knowing anything 
 about Latin irregular verbs, and a 
 physician ma}^ be very learned and 
 yet know nothing of remedies ; 
 whether such a one, however, is 
 properly called a physician may be 
 doubted. All knowlege is good ; 
 but the knowledge that makes the 
 real physician is the knowlege of 
 how to cure.
 
 I20 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 THE HEMORRHOIDAL UTERUS; 
 STERILITY. 
 
 On October 8, 1889, a married 
 lady, 28 years of age, consulted me 
 for what I sometimes think of as a 
 haemorrhoidal uterus, viz: the period 
 is disturbed, and the haemorrhoidal 
 veins seem to bleed vicariously for 
 the endometrium, the period itself 
 being scanty. This lad}- had only 
 one little girl 5 3'ears of age, but she 
 was most desirous of having more 
 family, and her husband very 
 desirous of having an heir, he pos- 
 sessing large estates. I began the 
 treatment with Niix 30 and Sul. 
 30 night and morning in alterna- 
 tion. Patient had been to Schwal- 
 bach to no purpose.
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 121 
 
 November 14. — Mucli better; 
 period scanty. 
 
 IJ? Be His per. ^, 10 drops in a 
 tablespoonful of water night and 
 morning. 
 
 January 16, 1890. — Much better. 
 There being some endometric 
 catarrh, and patient having been 
 twice vaccinated, the second time 
 nine years ago unsuccessfully, I 
 now ordered Thuja 30. 
 
 February 13. — "For the first 
 
 time in my life my period came 
 
 on exactly the day four weeks, and 
 
 although the piles are still there, 
 
 they do not trouble me." As patient 
 
 had had typhoid at five years of 
 
 age, I ordered Pyrogenium 5, 3 
 
 drops night and morning. 
 
 April 20. — Is enceinte. 
 I
 
 122 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 A baby girl came in due course, 
 and all went well. 
 
 October 13, 1891. — Patient did 
 not suckle ber little girl, and the 
 uterus is now subinvoluted; the 
 piles are again to the fore, and her 
 husband is most anxious for a son 
 and heir. Niix 30 and Sul. 30 were 
 given, as on the previous occasion. 
 
 January 9, 1892- — Is weak. 
 
 IJ? Levico (strong), 10 drops in 
 water at bedtime. 
 
 Feb. II. — Period four days late. 
 
 1^ Thuja 30. 
 
 March 14 — Period one day late. 
 
 May 5. — Bellis perennis ^. 
 
 Sept. 26. — Piles rather worse. 
 Nux 30 and Stil. 30. 
 
 January 10, 1893. — Patient is 
 depressed, and despairs of ever
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 123 
 
 having her heart's desire, particu- 
 larly as the period has become 
 very infrequent. I thought it 
 therefore desirable to rouse the 
 parts to greater life, and prescribed 
 Aurum muriaticiim 3^^, 5 drops in 
 water night and morning. 
 
 February 4. — Period much more 
 satisfactory. She is altogether 
 better. 
 
 ^ Fraxinus Amerzcanus, in the 
 mother tincture, 10 drops in .^j. 
 water night and morning. 
 
 March 16. — Enceinte. 
 
 A fine boy arrived in due course, 
 and all went well. 
 
 July 7, 1896. — "Oh! he is a 
 splendid boy ; he is nearly three 
 years old, and so well."
 
 124 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 ENLARGED UTERUS DUE TO 
 ABORTION. 
 
 Lady X., well past 40 years of 
 age, and not very long married, 
 aborted at the end of 1891. The 
 uterus was found very heavy, low- 
 lying, and soft and warm to the 
 touch, and bleeding at times. 
 
 I began with Bel/is prennis ^ , 
 10 drops in water three times a 
 day. This was continued with 
 much advantage for about three 
 weeks, when Hclonin ■^ followed, 
 and then Am. man. '^. 
 
 In the fourth month of the treat- 
 ment Thuja 30 was given ; in the 
 fifth month Arnica monta^ia i^; and 
 during the last month Fraxinus 
 Americanus ^, when Lady X. was
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 125 
 
 discharged in splendid health and 
 entirely normal in the uterine 
 sphere. 
 
 Lady X. had received injections 
 from her family doctor, and some 
 of her trouble was due to said 
 injections. 
 
 Intro-vaginal injections, in my 
 judgment, are generally very harm- 
 ful ; the vagina is the natural cloaca 
 of the female organism ; it is self- 
 cleansing fromwithin out wards, and 
 from above downwards, and treat- 
 ment in the contrary direction from 
 without is irrational, all the recom- 
 mendations of nearly all the doctors 
 in the world notwithstanding.
 
 126 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 NEURALGIA OFTHE bladder; STER- 
 ILITY; WITH CONSIDERABLE EN- 
 LARGEMENT OF THE UTERUS AND 
 OF THE SPLEEN. 
 
 Lady K. sends me Mrs. Y., 
 now home from Africa. She is 35 
 years of age, has been married for 
 eighteen years, and has had no 
 child for fifteen years, when she 
 was confined of a stiU-born child. 
 There was last year a bad mis- 
 carriage, and since then she has 
 never been well, though all the 
 time under the care of a very 
 eminent gynecologist. This gentle- 
 man's diagnosis is neuralgia of the 
 bladder. Patient is obliored con- 
 stantly to pass water : the pains 
 are burning ; very, very small pips ;
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 127 
 
 anaemic ; dark under eyes ; very 
 depressed before the period. The 
 breasts give a good deal of trouble, 
 being the seat of prickly pains. 
 
 Patient had had sunstroke,'^ and. 
 was commonly worse in the evening. 
 
 ]Jj Bacill. CC. This was August 
 1892. 
 
 September 6. — Pips less distinct ; 
 the urinary trouble is much better ; 
 less backache ; not at all depressed 
 before this period. 
 
 ]J Thuja 30. 
 
 Sept. 23. — Period so much better ; 
 the left rib region bulges a good 
 deal and is rather painful. 
 
 * Persons witli a consumptive strain in 
 their constitutions are very prone to sun- 
 stroke, typhoid fever, and in later life to 
 softening of the brain.
 
 128 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 ]^' Tc. Urtica ur. 0, j drops in 
 water night and morning. 
 
 November i. — Tc. Saw palmetto 
 ^, 7 drops in water night and morn- 
 ing. 
 
 Christmas 1892. — Mrs. Y. is 
 enceinte. 
 
 August 10, 1893. — A lady com- 
 ing to me on this date told me, 
 " Mrs. Y. is daily expecting to be 
 confined'' (in last letter). 
 
 This case was one not properly 
 termed sterility, perhaps, but at any 
 rate it was one of childlessness 
 from constitutional disease. 
 
 Mrs. Y. is in an out-of-the-way 
 part of Africa, so I have no knowl- 
 edge of how things went.
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 129 
 
 ENLARGEMENT AND DISPLACEMENT 
 
 OF uterus; neuralgia of five 
 years' standing; sterility. 
 
 Countess X. came under my 
 observation on January 22, 1887, 
 for neuralgia of the forehead and 
 top of head during the past five 
 years ; she suffered also from severe 
 leucorrhoea, and for the same period 
 of five years ; and her married life 
 was also of the same duration, viz., 
 five years. She had never been 
 pregnant at all, visits to Schwal- 
 bach notwithstanding. The neck 
 of the uterus enormously thickened, 
 the OS pointing rectum-wards. 
 Period every three weeks, and lasts 
 a week, and very painful. 
 
 ^ Sabina 30.
 
 130 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 Feb. 9. — Period lasted a week, 
 but was only painful for two days. 
 She feels better. 
 
 R Rep. 
 
 March 23. — Period very painful. 
 ^ Tc. Flor. anrant. a?uar. ^, 5 
 drops in water night and morning. 
 
 April 21. — Neuralgia gone; the 
 menstrual pain is seemingly in the 
 uterus itself. 
 
 ]Jf Thuja 30. 
 
 May 3. — Uterus much more 
 comfortable ; leucorrhoea certainly 
 better. 
 
 ]j^ Helonias dioica ^ . 
 
 June 2. — The neck of uterus is 
 very hard ; neuralgia bad again. 
 Patient wonders whether she will 
 ever have a child. Said she, "We 
 only want one boy to succeed to
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 131 
 
 the peerage. We don't want any- 
 more ; we are too poor to keep any 
 more. No, we don't want any 
 girl; we are too poor!" 
 ^ Tc. Aur. mtir. nat. 3^. 
 July 26. — No neuralgia ; no pain 
 at period ; the neck of the uterus 
 is shorter and softer. 
 
 August 18. — Rather a sore 
 throat ; menses two days only ; no 
 pain ; whites gone ; the elongated 
 hypertrophied cervix is half an 
 inch shorter, and the uterus in an 
 almost normal position. 
 
 "^Rep. 
 
 Nov. I. — No whites ; uterus still 
 heavy and hard. 
 
 ^ Be His perennis ^, 5 drops in 
 water night and morning.
 
 132 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 Feb. II, 1888.— The os points 
 right on to the rectum. 
 
 1^ Trit. Plat. ynet. 3, which was 
 continued for some time, till her 
 ladyship had taken sixty 6-grain 
 powders, when she fell enceinte., 
 and in due course bore a fine boy, 
 who is the heir-presumptive to the 
 peerage, and a grand little man he 
 is, so I am told. 
 
 ENLARGEMENT OF UTERUS; BAD 
 LEUCORRHCEA ; STERILITY. 
 
 Lady X., 24 years of age, has 
 been married several years, and is 
 childless. The gynecologist's mani- 
 pulations and operations, together 
 with syringing and Schwalbach, 
 have not mended matters. Her hus- 
 band is next heir to a peerage, and
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 133 
 
 *'my husband is getting very angry 
 with me because we have no heir, 
 for his uncle comes next after him, 
 and he hates him." 
 
 Patient, so good and so willing 
 to do the bidding of her lord, had 
 broken down in her nerve-life, and 
 was getting bad attacks of some- 
 what grave hysteria. 
 
 Uterus enlarged, anteverted ; 
 much catarrh of the endometrium. 
 Bellis peren7iis ^, Ig7iatia amara 1^, 
 Oletim sticdni non-rect.y and Fraxi- 
 nus Americaniis ^, all followed on 
 lines already given, when on Sep- 
 tember 8, 1892, distinct improve- 
 ment was noted in the uterine 
 sphere, but her ladyship was getting 
 thin, with circumscribed flush on 
 each cheek of an evening.
 
 134 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 IJ Bacill. CC. 
 
 October 1 8. — Fearfully swelled 
 all round the hypogastric area, 
 and yawns most painfully. 
 
 Ij^ Aur, mur. 3. 
 
 November 26 — Morning vomit- 
 ing. Period three weeks overdue. 
 Viburniun ^ . 
 
 A bonnie boy was born in due 
 course, and since then two other 
 children have followed, so I learned 
 when I met her ladyship down by 
 Rotten Row. 
 
 And now I have no more time 
 to spare at present, and I thus have 
 the option of sending this to the 
 press just as it is, or of laying it on 
 one side till I can deal more largely 
 and more adequately with so great
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 135 
 
 a subject as uterine displacements 
 and enlargements from the physi- 
 cian's standpoint. I choose the 
 former course, and leave the rest 
 to the future; after all, I am not 
 quite sure my bantling would be 
 any the better for being bigger. 
 
 ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF CURING 
 CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASE OF 
 WOMB AND OVARIES BY ANY 
 OPERATIONS WHATSOEVER. 
 
 I hold very strongly that it is 
 simply impossible to cure any con- 
 stitutional disease whatever by any 
 operations. I have defended this 
 thesis in regard to fistula in my 
 small work On Fistula^ and all 
 my subsequent experience amply
 
 136 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 confirms the views therein ex- 
 pressed. The manifold operations 
 on women are, for the most part, 
 absolutely useless, often harmful, 
 and not seldom fatal. How can 
 any one cure the quality of a 
 person by cutting a piece off her? 
 Omne ignotum pro magnifico^ of 
 course, else hysterectomy and 
 oophorectomy would be called 
 mutilating and maiming. 
 
 Early in this year, a married 
 lady, 34 3^ears of age, came under 
 my obser\-ation for fistula in ano. 
 In my opinion, fistula, wherever 
 situate, is almost always tubercular 
 alone, or tubercular and something 
 else. It also frequentl}^ happens 
 that oophoritis is likewise of tuber- 
 cular quality, with or without a
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 137 
 
 superadded gleety quality. The 
 lady in question had had ovaritis 
 (or, as I prefer, on philologic 
 grounds, oophoritis), which formed 
 purulent collections in the tissues, 
 and these pointed intheanal region, 
 where they were operated upon. 
 It was finally held that the fistular 
 issues at the anus would not heal 
 because of their connexion with the 
 left ovary certainly, and probably 
 with the right ovary also. So it 
 was determined to perform ovario- 
 tomy on this lady, so that she 
 might be rid of the fans et origo 
 mall. This was done, both ovaries 
 being removed, and very prettily 
 and neatly it was done. And the 
 result? The lady had no further 
 menstruation, became enormously 
 J
 
 138 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 obese — almost formlessly so And 
 the fistulae ? They continued to 
 bother just the same as before, for 
 the simple reason that fistulae com- 
 monly are of constitutional nature 
 and origin, and the cutting out of 
 the tuberculous ovaries did not cure 
 the organismic tuberculosis, any 
 more than cutting off a gouty toe 
 will cure the gout. 
 
 A brother and a sister of this 
 lady had both died of phthisis, and 
 this lady had phthisis situate in her 
 ovaries and the anal region, in the 
 form of ovaritis and fistula respec- 
 tively. Gout in the eye is as much 
 gout as gout in the big toe, and 
 tuberculosis in the ovaries is as 
 much phthisis as phthisis pulmo- 
 nalis, and requires the same quali-
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 139 
 
 tadve treatment as set forth in my 
 New Cure of Consumption. 
 
 This treatment was adopted for 
 Mrs. R. on March 17, 1896. 
 
 fune 2. — The 3^ -year old fistula 
 has healed. 
 
 ^ Rep. 
 
 Septe?nberiz^, 1896. — The fistula 
 remains healed, and its former canal 
 can be traced by the colour of the 
 skin for fully two inches. 
 
 Few kinds or forms of disease 
 permit the clear clinical proof of 
 disease-quality better than tubercu- 
 losis, for unless the disease-quality 
 be radically cured the treatment 
 goes on and on, not infrequently to 
 a fatal issue. Thus, a few months 
 ago a gentleman came to me from
 
 140 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 the neighbourhood of Birmingham. 
 He was about 28 years of age, and 
 was the subject of tuberculosis, 
 manifested at the time of his first 
 visit to me as phthisis pulmonalis 
 located in the upper third of the 
 right lung, and as scrotal fistula of 
 the right side There were frequent 
 blood-spitting, night-sweats, bad 
 cough, moderate loss of flesh, dusky 
 skin, and great weakness. The 
 progressive history of the disease 
 was very instructive, and bears out 
 the views I am at this point trying 
 to lay before my readers. The 
 thing began as tubercular syno- 
 vitis of the right knee joint (he 
 was puceau, and hence had not had 
 gonorrhoea) ; and to prevent any 
 spread of the disease to the consti-
 
 Organ Diseases of Wome7i. 141 
 
 tution, his right leg was amputated 
 just, above the knee. All went 
 well and patient made a good re- 
 covery, and was supposed to have 
 had the primary seat of the disease 
 totally removed and his life saved. 
 After a while, however, tuberculosis 
 broke out in his left testicle, and 
 many consultations of eminent 
 surgeons were held as to what to do 
 next. It was finally decided to re- 
 move the diseased testicle to save 
 the constitution, and he was assured 
 that this time the cure would be 
 radical. The left testicle was 
 accordingly removed and patient 
 again made a complete recovery, 
 and returned home and to his busi- 
 ness full of hope and gratitude 
 to his surgical benefactors. After
 
 142 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 a while tuberculosis broke out in 
 the remaining testicle ; the organ 
 swelled, inflamed and broke, and 
 discharged bacilli-containing pus. 
 Many more consultations took 
 place, and as there was a bad cough, 
 physicians were called to consult 
 with the surgeons, and then came 
 blood-spitting : nevertheless it was 
 decided to remove the remaining 
 testicle. At this stage patient 
 came under our scientific homoeo- 
 pathic treatment. He is getting 
 well, but the point that here con- 
 cerns me is that surgery cannot 
 cure constitutional disease even 
 though expressed only in a part. 
 This we see every day in regard 
 to strumous glands in the necks of 
 young children which it is the
 
 Organ Diseases of Women. 143 
 
 fashion to cut out " to save the 
 constitution and prevent ugly- 
 scars." It does neither ; but, on the 
 contrary, tends to wreck the consti- 
 tution, and the scars left by opera- 
 tions are worse than those from 
 natural suppuration, in so far as 
 theyshowmore And why? Because 
 when these strumous glands are 
 cut out there is loss of gland and of 
 connective tissue, so that the en- 
 vironment of the gland sinks in, 
 whereas when the gland suppurates 
 naturally (under the influence of 
 adequate constitutional treatment, 
 be it remembered) there is hyper- 
 plasia of areolar tissue to fill up the 
 gap, and in the end the scar is much 
 less noticeable than that left by ex- 
 cision.
 
 144 Organ Diseases of Women. 
 
 This point is very important 
 indeed, and I would impress it 
 upon my readers as worthy of 
 serious consideration, and a glance 
 at a few scarry necks will show the 
 correctness of my statement.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Abortion, case of, 124. 
 
 ^sculus, 14. 
 
 Ague-cake, case of, 68. 
 
 Aletris farinosa, 75. 
 
 Allopaths' opinions on homoeopathy are 
 
 nothing but spiteful splutter, 11. 
 Alnuin, 13. 
 Aphonia, 31. 
 Arnica montana, 18, 37, 40, 41, loi, 104, 
 
 124. 
 Aurum met., 81, 90. 
 Aurum mur. cures sterility, 94, 123. 
 Aur. mur. nat. , 131, 134. 
 
 Bacillinum, 40, 41, 48, 78, 85, 90, 103, 
 [04, 108, 109, 1 10, III, 127, 134. 
 
 Bellis perennis, 18, 19, 40, 41, 48, 72, 93, 
 99, 100, 109, 121, 122, 124, 131, 133. 
 
 Bellis perennis in the inconveniences of 
 pregnancy, 98. 
 
 Bladder, neuralgia of the, 124.
 
 146 Index. 
 
 Bursa pastoris a very splendid uterine 
 remedy, 43, 44, 75, 92. 
 
 Ceauothus Americanus, 71. 
 
 Cedron, 19, 20. 
 
 Chelon glabra, 37. 
 
 Cimicifuga, 72, 73. 
 
 Clergyman's daughter Julia, enlargement 
 
 of womb cured by Sepia, 9. 
 Coethen phase of homoeopathy, 46. 
 Consumption, case of, from suppressed 
 
 leucorrhoea due to subinv^oluted uterus, 
 
 84. 
 Cooper, Dr. Robert T., on couch grass, 
 
 117. 
 Couch grass, common, 115, 117. 
 Couch grass used by British herbalists as 
 
 a bladder medicine, 118. 
 Countess X., case of, 129. 
 Cuprum acet, 19. 
 Cypripedin, 34. 
 Cypripedium pubescens, 34. 
 Daisy, valuable in pregnancy, 99, 100. 
 Dropsy of lower extremities, 39.
 
 Index. 147 
 
 Dysuria, treatment for, 113, 116, 117. 
 Family, voluntary limitation of, 25. 
 Ferrum, 14. 
 Fer. phos., 19. 
 Fistula in ano, case of, 136. 
 Flor. aurant. amar. , 130. 
 Fragaria vesca, 104. 
 
 Fraser, Mr., herbalist, cured dysuria, 116. 
 Fraxinus Americanus, 40, 42, 48, 49, 56, 
 57, 58, 75. 79, 104, 123, 124, 133- 
 
 Genesiac fraud causes evil results, 20. 
 Gentleman, 28 years of age, case of, 140. 
 Guaco, 18, 19. 
 
 Hsematocele, peri-uterine, loi. 
 Haemorrhoids, constitutional, 106. 
 Hahnemann is a hero to Dr. Burnett, 44. 
 Helonias dioica, 8, 40, 41, 75, 130. 
 Helonias in enlargement of the uterus 
 
 with urinary trouble, 112, 114. 
 Helonin, 109, 114, 115, 124, 
 Hydrastinin. mur., 38. 
 Hydrastis Canadensis, 109. 
 Hypericum perf. , 18.
 
 148 Index. 
 
 Ignatia amara, 39, 40, 57, 133. 
 
 Kali chlor., 6, 18. 
 
 Lady, childless, after treatment, had six 
 healthy children, 14. 
 ,, ,, nine years married but had 
 
 seven miscarriages, case of, 
 
 1 1. 
 ,, ,, the late Dr. Smith's opinion 
 
 of, 13. 
 ,, foreign, married, case of. Preface v. 
 ,, maiden, 38 years of age, case of, 80. 
 ,, ,, 32 years of age, case of, 114. 
 
 ,, married, about 30 years of age, with 
 consumptive s)'mptoms, 84. 
 , , , , mother of four children , case 
 
 of, 107. 
 ,, ,, mother of three children, 26 
 
 5'ears of age, case of, 31. 
 , , . , 25 years of age, case of, 1 01 . 
 
 ,, ,,26 years of age, case of, 16. 
 
 ,, ,,27 years of age, case of, 89. 
 
 ,, ,.28 years of age, case of, 91.
 
 Index. 149 
 
 lyady, married, 28 years of age, treated 
 
 for sterility, 94. 
 
 ,, ,, 28 years of age, with 
 
 haemorrhoidal uterus, 
 
 case of, 120. 
 
 ,, ,, 29 yearsofage.caseof, 46. 
 
 ,, ,, 34 years of age, case of 
 
 fistula in ano, in, 136. 
 , , widow of notable Ivondon physician , 
 
 case of, 118. 
 ,, X., married, 40 years of age, case 
 
 of, 124. 
 ,, ,, M 24 years of age, case 
 
 of, 132. 
 ,, young married, resident in South 
 America, case of, 74. 
 Leg, bad, case of, in unmarried lady, 48 
 
 years of age, 66. 
 Leucorrhoea, bad, with enlargement of 
 uterus and sterility, 132. 
 ,, frequently connected with 
 
 ,, the spleen, 68. 
 
 ,, intermittent, case of, with 
 
 enlarged uterus, 67.
 
 150 Index. 
 
 Leucorrhcea, suppressed, causing con- 
 sumption, 84. 
 
 Levico, 122. 
 
 "Liver," Dr. Burnett on "Diseases of 
 the," 59. 
 
 Mai., 36, 57, 90. 
 
 Malthusianism, applied, evil effects of, 17, 
 
 Mater triumphans, 12, 16. 
 
 Med., 37, 38, 86, 88, 96. 
 
 Medorrh., 97. 
 
 Nat. mur. , 57. 
 
 Nerve tortures, 18, 
 
 Neuralgia of five years' standing with en- 
 largement and displacement of uterus, 
 129. 
 
 Neurasthenia, 20, 23. 
 
 Nux, 120, 122. 
 
 Oleum succini, 133. 
 
 Ovaries, enlargement of both, 31. 
 
 Pessaries, on use of. 3, 42. 
 
 Physical wrong-doing. Nemesis of, 21.
 
 Index. 151 
 
 Plat, met., 132. 
 Pleurodynia of left side, 71. 
 Pregnancy, Bellis pereni^is in the incon- 
 veniencies of, 98. 
 
 ,, troubles of, 97. 
 
 ,, vomiting of, 97. 
 
 Pulsatilla, 68, 69, 70, 93. 
 Pyrogenium, 121. 
 
 Quassia, 76. 
 Quinine, 57. 
 
 Rademacher, Dr. Burnett's opinion of, 
 44. 
 ,, organopathy of, 45. 
 
 R., Mrs., case of ovarian tumour, 102. 
 
 Sabina, 73, 104, 109, iii, 129. 
 Saw palmetto, 36, 76, 90, 128. 
 Scutellaria lat., 34. 
 Scutellarin, 35. 
 Secale cornutum, 29, 30. 
 Sepia, 9, II, 48. 
 
 Shepherd's purse, a very splendid uterine 
 remedy, 63.
 
 152 Index. 
 
 Silicea, 14. 
 
 Spermatophobia, 16, 107. 
 Spleen, the, if related to the uterus, 72. 
 Sterility, case of, cured by Aurum, 95. 
 ,, with bad leucorrhoea and en- 
 largement of the uterus, 132. 
 ,, with enlargement and displace- 
 ment of the uterus, 129. 
 ,, with misshapen uterus, 91. 
 , , with neuralgia of the bladder, 
 124. 
 Stevenson's song of the mother, 12, 
 Sulphur, 14, 38, 120, 122. 
 
 Thuja, 130. 
 
 ,, occid., 48, 57, 70, 73, 80, 82, 90, 
 92, 96, 108, III, 121, 122, 124, 
 127. 
 ,, occidentalis is homceopathic to 
 vaccinosis, 83. 
 Triticum repens, 113, 115, 118. 
 Tuberculinum testium, 73, 75, 76, 77, 79. 
 Tuberculosis in gentleman 28 years of 
 age, 139.
 
 Index. 153 
 
 "Tumours," Dr. Burnett's "Curability 
 
 of," "by Medicines," 102. 
 Urine, retention of, 31. 
 Urtica urens, 35, 69, 70, 85, 92, 128. 
 Uterus, case of hugely enlarged, 50. 
 ,, defrauded, 23. 
 ,, description of , 2. See Womb also. 
 ,, enlarged, 31, 67. 
 ,, enlarged, due to abortion, 124. 
 ,, enlarged, of constitutional cause, 
 
 107. 
 ,, enlarged, with backache and 
 great depression of spirits, 80. 
 , , enlargement and displacement of, 
 
 loi, 129. 
 ,, enlargement of, and of the 
 
 spleen, 126. 
 ,, enlargement of, with bad leucor- 
 
 rhcea, 132. 
 ,, haeraorrhoidal, 120. 
 ,, in childless married lady, 13. 
 ,, in married women who prevent 
 
 conception, 23. 
 ,, misshapen, with sterility, 91. 
 K
 
 154 Index. 
 
 Uterus, or womb, a living organ, i. 
 ,, retroverted and enlarged, 89. 
 ,, subinvoluted, case of, causing 
 
 consumption, 84. 
 ,, subinvoluted, from constitutional 
 
 cause, 46. 
 ,, subinvoluted, with haemorrhage 
 
 and backache, 74. 
 traumatic, 16. 
 ,, use of Helonias in enlargements 
 
 of, 112. 
 
 Vaccinosis, 82. 
 
 ,, homoeopathic to. Thuja occi- 
 
 dentalis, 83. 
 \'agiual intro-injections are pernicious, 
 
 84, 125. 
 \'iburnum, 134. 
 
 Womb and ovaries, impossibililit}' of 
 
 curing constitutional disease 
 
 of, by any operations, 135. 
 
 ,, case of excessive enlargement of 
 
 the, organ to be removed, 50.
 
 Index. 155 
 
 Womb defrauded, 21. 
 
 ,, description of, 2. See also Uterus. 
 ,, disease in married lady 29 years 
 
 of age, 46. 
 ,, displacement of, from accident, 
 
 case of, 28. 
 ,, enlarged, disturbing micturition, 
 
 with severe vomiting, 60. 
 ,, enlarged, with backache and 
 
 haemorrhage, 74. 
 ,, enlargement of, dropsy of lower 
 
 extremities, 39. 
 ,, enlargements and displacements 
 
 of, orthodox treatment of, 3. 
 ,, in married lady 26 j'earsofage, 16. 
 ,, or uterus, a living organ, i. 
 ,, prolapse of the, 8. 
 ,, reasons for other treatment, 5. 
 ,, surgical and mechanical opera- 
 tions undertaken for, 3. 
 Women, married, cases of, who pre\'ent 
 conception, 21. 
 ,, married, cases of, who prevent 
 conception, evil results of, 21.
 
 1 56 Index. 
 
 Women, organ diseases of, amenable to 
 drug action, 15. 
 ,, who do not wish to bear a family 
 should not marry, 26. 
 Widow, elderly, with prolapsed uterus, 
 treated with Helonias dioica, 8. 
 
 X., Dr., recommended support for en- 
 larged womb. 10. 
 
 ' ' Mrs. , 43 years of age, case of weak 
 heart and dropsy of lower ex- 
 tremities, 39. 
 
 ,, Mrs. John, aged 38, mother of six 
 children, case of hugely enlarged 
 uterus, 52. 
 
 ,, sister of Sir William, 72 years of 
 age, case of enlarged w'omb dis- 
 turbing micturition, 60. 
 
 Y., Mrs., married, 35 years of age, home 
 from Africa, case of, 126. 
 
 Zincum acet., 37. 
 
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