Serious condition following suppression of eczema
By Dr. Anil Bhusan Choudhury

ON 8.11.34 Ram Chandra Sarkar of Joynagar-Tilipara sought for me. But hearing from my assistant that I had gone to Calcutta and that I would return on that day by the noon train, he went to the Railway station to wait there till my arrival. As soon as I arrived at the station, he approached me and said crying, “Doctor, my only daughter is seriously ill, please come with me as quickly as possible to my house.” Accordingly I accompanied him and saw at about 2.15 p.m. his four year old child named Haramony in a precarious condition mentioned below:

“Loss of consciousness; violent convulsions; bending of head, neck and spine backwards; the child is frequently thrown into different sorts of odd shapes and frightful distortions; pulse extremely feeble.”

The relations were all around the clinic and were crying. Nobody could expect that the child’s life would be saved. I, too, asked the party to arrange any other sort of treatment if they liked. However, I prescribed four doses of Cicuta vir. 30, to be taken every hour and at longer intervals if any improvement commenced. At 6.30 p.m. one person came to me with the following report:

“Convulsions and distortions lessened; no consciousness; the patient is insensible with eyes almost fixed, pupils widely dilated and perfectly insensible to light; the respiration laboured and sobbing with foam in the mouth; cold sweat on the skin; no passage of urine.”

I sent six doses of Hydrocyanic acid 6x  in a glob. tube with the direction to put a dose on the child’s tongue every half an hour and at longer intervals when the condition would be better. But I could not expect to hear anything other than death afterwards.

9.11.34. In the morning to my utter surprise I had the report that the patient was showing signs of improvement. At 9 a.m. I was very happy to find her in the way of survival except that she was looking extremely weak. I noted down the following symptoms:

“In spite of extreme weakness the state of her mind proved very cross. The tongue was almost clean. Restlessness for almost all the time. Grinding of teeth during sleep. A few days before there was passage of worms (long as well as thready).” Cina 200, one dose, was prescribed.

11.11.34. The child was found not better. She was rather more restless and she was throwing off the covering every  time it was being applied, due to unbearable burning sensation all over her body, especially soles for which she was repeatedly complaining, and she was seeking a cool place. Another very painful symptom informed by her mother appeared in my presence – that is, lack of expulsive power – stool protrudes and then slips back again and again. On enquiry I was further informed that she had an intense suffering almost since her birth from eczema for which she had been placed under the treatment of Dr…… Mittra, an old and renowned allopath of Jaynagar. During this treatment various kinds of ointment were applied on ulcers which were cured (?) after a considerable period of time. But, near the anus, there were still some deep ulcers on which ointment was being applied for more than six months without any effect. I prescribed a single dose of Sulphur 200 and also Placebo for two days.

13.11.34. I saw the patient’s condition quite unchanged. Moreover, the expulsion of her hard faeces were seen so difficult that everyone feared her heart would cease to beat during that time. However, according to the previous history, I put on her tongue a tiny globule of Sulphur 1M and Placebo was left.

16.11.34. In the noon I visited the child whose condition was found slightly improved. She passed in my presence numerous thread worms. The expulsion of her stool became easy. Placebo for a week’s course was given.

23.11.34. The child was found much better in every respect. Placebo to cover another week’s course.

Haramony required another dose of Sulphur 1M on 30.11.34 after which the deep ulcers were radically healed, her mind was seen jolly and she began to gain sound health.