Some clinical cases. By Arthur Hill Grimmer, M. D.

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Some clinical
cases.
By Arthur Hill Grimmer, M. D.
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet

Dr Arthur H.
Grimmer

Case I :

L. D. A—., age 50
years, June 27, 1938. Sarcoma of mouth and gums following a tooth
extraction, diagnosis from biopsy and clinical aspects. Not only were
the gums ulcerated and swollen but the whole affected side of the face
was enormously swollen presenting the well ; known “Frog
Face” appearance, the cervical and sub-lingual glands were enlarged
and the patient could with great difficulty open his mouth the space of
a lead pencil.

The family history was
good and in no way significant ; he had always enjoyed good health,
having always been free of infections and venereal disease.

There was no definite
symptomatology to base a homœopathic prescription on, unless the recent
surgical injury following extraction with curettment and scraping of the
bony processes of the jaw might be used as an irritating factor.

Radium and X-ray were
advised, with possibly more extensive surgery, by the dental specialist
who attended the case. But this was refused by the patient on the advice
of his family physician who, having no therapeutic symptomatology to
prescribe on, sent him to me for a remedy to be selected over the
patient’s blood.

Symphytum Officinalis

came through and that remedy, given in the 10M and 50M potencies at well
spaced intervals of from one to three months apart, cured this case
completely in, the space of a year.

This case continues to
report to me at intervals for a sinus condition of a rather mild
catarrhal nature for which Carbo Veg. has
been prescribed since Sep. 11, 1939 to the present time.

The same intervals of
time have elapsed in a series of potencies of Carbo
Veg. from the 10M to the CM. which was given on April 1,
1940. He will now be turned back to the physician who sent him to me
cured entirely within the space of two years.

This case presents a
classical cure with the single remedy given in a series of potencies at
properly spaced intervals. Unfortunately we see relatively few showing
such happy action.

Case II

:

Miss. D—., Aug. 12,
1929. Carcinoma of breast of two years’ standing, diagnosis confirmed by
biopsy. Has been under good homœopathic treatment but the breast is
about one-third uncreated away and the patient has lost weight and
color, but has suffered little pain. Under continuous treatment by
remedies selected over the blood (this also is a referred case from
another homœopathic physician) this patient has carried on actively for
eleven years. Her breast is nealed but her bones are weakened and break
very easily, X-ray now shows cancerous. Under the action of a number of
remedies, chief of which was Cadmium Iod
and Cadmium Met., Samarskite, Alum. Silica,
Graph, and the last remedy Kali
Thio Cyn., the patient’s breast has entirely healed and
remains without pain ; but because of the weakened bones, she must
now be kept very quiet and avoid physical exertion of all kinds.

This is a case of
advanced cancer where deep changes in the blood and tissue have
ultimated ; rarely if ever do we find one remedy sufficient to cope
with such conditions, generally a series of deep homœopathic
constitutional remedies are required and these can be best selected over
the blood of the patient.

The more I see of
cancer the more convinced I become that -our greatest use must come in
the field or prevention, treating the pre-cancer stage by careful homœopathic
prescribing, especially in the children and young adults.

One thing more that
must strike every homœopath is the wonderful advantage that must accrue
to the race where three successive generations could be blessed with
real homœopathic treatment. Not only cancer but the ground-work on
which cancer grows, tuberculosis, could be entirely eradicated with
three generation of consecutive homœopathic treatment.

One of the things we
might do with great profit to the future of the race is to organize our
patients into a group looking ahead to the time and with the object of
having homœopathic uniting with homœopaths that better, happier and
healthier children may be born into the world.

Chicago. Ill.

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DISCUSSION.

Dr Grace Stevens

Dr. Stevens :

I
am glad Dr. Grimmer had biopsy for that case of cancer of the mouth, for
that is one of the cases where people of the old school would say,
“It wasn’t it”.

Dr. Hubbard :

I would like to ask a
question, I was very much impressed with Dr. Grimmer’s paper, as all
were, but I wondered if very often, when we have been on homœopathic
remedies, we get bone metastasis. I have been under the impression that
we didn’t get it, that it stayed fairly localized.

Dr. Dixon :

I felt like rising to my
feet and telling about an old lady approaching her eightieth birthday
now, who nine years ago had an ulcerated tooth and didn’t go to the
dentist with it. She was proud of her own teeth at seventy-one, and she
still has them, but she developed a swelling which included the whole
lower maxillary jaw. Her face was swollen, enormously.

In her case, I remember
the remedy was Silica, and I had
quite a time holding the patient because of the opposition from the
family, who almost insisted that the whole jaw should be excised or a
surgeon brought in. We cleared that up under the-one remedy. Silica.
The woman is well today, after nearly nine-years. There is no swelling
in that jaw, not a bit.

Dr. Sink :

I would like to ask if
there was pus in that case or tissue change.

Dr Charles A. Dixon

Dr. Dixon

:
There was pus early in the case, yes, and the lower jaw was really
swollen three inches across there. It was a terrible thing. Unlike Dr.
Grimmer, I did not have any laboratory findings on it, but it came up so
rapidly I was sure it was sarcoma, and I rather think yet it was.

Dr. Moore

: I don’t have any of these
cases coming to me, but I had a patient in one of my families where I
have been treating them more or less homœopathically, and this woman
had some rectal growth and wanted to know to whom to go. I proposed a
rectal specialist. She went to that one, and went to a second one, two
of our proctologists, and they both said it was cancer of the rectum.
There was no biopsy, but she came away from the office of this second
man and broke her hip, so she was not operated on as the man had
intended. He had intended short-circuiting the bowel, and he gave her
six months to live.

She never got over the
broken hip. She is still bedfast. But under the homœopathic remedy she
has no rectal trouble at all. She is eating well and getting along the
good shape, and it is two years this month since she had that diagnosis.

Dr. Dixon.

What is the remedy ?

Dr Thomas K. Moore

Dr. Moore. Nitric
Acid was the leading remedy there. That was given on local
symptoms largely, not many constitutional. But she also had one or two
other remedies.

Dr. Grimmer.

Dr. Hubbard brought up a nice
point there. According to our philosophy, our remedies cure from within
out, from centre to circumference. The chronic disease works the inverse
way. The answer to her question is plain. Remedies are not sufficient to
control the chronic trend. They merely hold it or slow it up. This is
one of those incurable cases that will eventually die of cancer.

However, I do think
that we are on the verge of binding -father remedies that are more
applicable to the cancer state after it has been plainly settled, and
that yet we will get remedies by our constant search for them, and new
remedies are coming in,
unproven remedies, however, which later can be proven.

A layman on the coast,
who is associated with Dr. Enstam, a very ardent homœopathic student
and a chemist and engineer, has sent me several preparation of complex
sodium combinations that when potentized and tested over the blood have
shown strong cancer reactions in correspondence to the polarity of
cancer, and clinically they have brought a number of apparent cures
which will be later reported. So we are really getting a number of new
remedies that, when they are sufficiently confirmed, will be reported to
the society and given to them.

Source :

Homœopathic Recorder,
January, 1941.

Copyright © Sylvain
Cazalet 2001

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