Transactions of the American Homoeopathic Ophthalmological, Otological and Laryngological Society. Annual Meeting Volume 17 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...DISCUSSION. The President: Recently I saw a patient who had had suppurative otitis for about two months, complicating a middle ear catarrh of long standing, as a sequela of the "grippe." He had had hardly any treatment of the ear, and I do not know as the physician's attention was called to it. The inner end of the canal up to about the isthmus was partially filled with granulation tissue; the mastoid was boggy, tender, and the auricle stood out from the head, with redness and tenderness extending down into the muscles of the neck and well up into the head. Part of the granulation was cleared out with a curette and Capsicum 3x given. The diminution of the tenderness was very marked in three days; almost all bagginess and tenderness being gone by the fourth day. The case went along very satisfactorily to a rapid recovery. There was a slight rise of temperature to 100 in the beginning, but it disappeared in three or four days. Wm. E. Green, M. D.: I had a little experience last winter with-Capsicum. I was called to see an acute attack of tenderness over the mastoid. The patient had been treated by an old school specialist, and had not improved, so he called in a homoeopathic specialist, who went down that day to some neighboring town, and during his absence the patient was taken very severely with pains about the mastoid. I saw him about nine o'clock, and the symptoms of Capsicum were very pronounced. I prescribed Capsicum 3x, and he rested pretty well that night, and the next morning was so much better and had improved so much by the time I saw him later in the day that it was not necessary for me to see the case any more. All I prescribed was Capsicum 3x. He had been to an old school specialist and to a homoeopathic specialist, ...