Rauterberg's case in Nash 's testimony

[J.VENKATASUBRAMANIAN]

Hello list,
Here is a case I liked from the Testimonial of the clinic By Nash. I
am trying to repertorize it too. that later.
Now the case.
RHEUMATISM

Case 7

A boy of thirteen, becoming overheated while roller skating, sat down
on a curb stone to cool off. A severe cold resulted with general
aching ; next rheumatism of knees and ankles developed ; worse on
motion. Next day it had left the legs and attacked the shoulders and
arms. From that point it flew back to the feet, which began to swell.
He had received Bryonia, Lachnanthes, Ledum, etc., according to the
symptoms ; but at this point I was confined myself to my home for
some days, and had to rely upon the reports of his parents, which
were vague and indefinite. They now reported that while the feet
continued to swell, the rheumatism was gone, but that now he had pain
in his chest ; it hurt him to breathe, was impossible for him to take
a long breath. I gave Bryonia, then Cimicifuga upon their
representation, without good result ; the boy grew worse. On the
sixth day the mother reported that the boy was so weak that he could
scarcely speak. I cross-questioned her very closely. Among other
things asked, lying upon which side was the pain worse ? "O,"
exclaimed the poor, stupid woman, "I forgot to tell you, he can't lie
down at all. He hasn't lain down for five nights. We have him in a
Morris chair. He sits bent forward all night with his head resting in
chin strap made of towels." A light broke upon me. Then I knew it was
no pleurisy I had to deal with, but rheumatism of the heart. I
hastened to his home. As I entered the room I was shocked at the
pitiful change in the child since I had seen him six days before. The
labored gasps for breath could be heard outside the door, the little
figure sat bent forward in the Morris chair, face blue, cyanotic,
swollen, feet and ankles swollen as big as watermelons ; but the
thing that struck me most as I entered was the terrific visible
throbbing of the carotids, which could be seen across the room. It
was with great difficulty that I could examine his heart ; he could
not endure the least touch, and at each attempt gasped, "O, doctor,
give me a little more time." I finally made out a muffled, tumultuous
heart sound, as if beating under water. The temperature was 103°, yet
there was a great deal of perspiration, urine very scant, no thirst,
no appetite. He had only slept short naps for many nights. I feared
the boy was dying. There was a time when I would have treated the
heart symptoms with Aconite or Kalmia, and the dropsy with Apocynum,
and what not, and so zig-zagged a slow cure or a speedy death. But
fortunately I knew better now. I knew that every one of these
symptoms are summed up under one remedy, and covers every point
exactly. I gave Aurum 10x, dose to be given every three hours. I
never saw a more brilliant cure. The first dose was 7 P. M. I
requested that they phone me at 11 P. M. that night. At 11 the
message came, "Louis is in a drenching perspiration, he has urinated
quantities, and his breathing is less labored." At 8 o'clock the next
morning they phoned that he had slept peacefully most of the night
though still in his upright position with chin-strap. That night he
could recline in the chair, and the next he could lie down in bed.
The urine continued in unbelievable quantities, the perspiration
rained from him, and the swelling promptly disappeared. You see what
a profound element gold is when homœopathically indicated. The lad
made a rapid and complete recovery with no other medication. He
received it first in the 10x, then I rose to the 30th, then to 200th,
on which I kept him until the poor damaged little heart was quite
normal again. You will recall that every one of the above symptoms
are recorded by Hering and Hahnemann in these words :
"Rheumatism which jumps from joint to joint and finally fastens upon
the heart. Impossible to lie down. Must sit up bent forward."
"Visible throbbing of carotids."
"Face cyanotic, gasps for breath, can hardly speak above a whisper."
"Much perspiration, as in auric fever."
"Swelling of feet and limbs."
Does that not picture the little boy just described ?
(Rauterberg.)

REMARKS.- I should say it does, and free to add that it is one of the
best cures in homœopathic literature. No routinist or pathological
hobby rider would have ever thought of the remedy. Any man who could
be convinced of the truth of Homœopathy by a few such cures is, as
Artemus Ward used to say, "A obtoose." (N.)

[Rosemary C Hyde Ph D]

Wow! Spectacular!. Thanks. Rosemary