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He was an educated man whose book abounds with poetic quotations from Shelley, Shakespeare and others less well known. Apart from glycerine lozenges and the Arnica lozenges he had invented himself, he was against all such medicaments. In order to draw the patient's attention to the risks of Ipecacuanha lozenges he quoted the following verse: "Sighing in a shady grove with my Juliana, Lozenges I gave my love Ipecacuanha. Full twenty from the lozenge box The imprudent nymph did pick Then, very gently sighing, said 'My Damon, I am sick'" Dr Shuldham does not appear to have written anything else. He seems to have been a hom0eopathic general practitioner well read both in the medical literature of his time and in poetry. Experienced in elocution and singing he gave public readings, although when and to whom he does not say. He obviously had a sense of humour. Under the circumstances he must sink back into history, which is a pity, for it seems he might have been a man worth knowing. REFERENCE 1 ShuldhamEB. Clergyman's Sore Throat. London: HomoeopathicPublishingCo., 1878.
From other journals Miiller HV. Phobische Angst. Z s c h r klass H o m 1983; 27:64-71. The case history is given of a medical student about to take his finals who was suffering from anthropophobia. The patient, a doctor's son, had a long history of social inferiority feelings. He had lost his ability to enjoy life, to laugh, was withdrawn, yet could be aggressive. He had been treated by a depth psychologist, and had had hospital treatment for alcohol and drug abuse. The phobia had persisted. Differential diagnosis between B a r i u m carb. and A m b r a led to the choice of B a r i u m carb., with a single i.v. dose of the 200c given. Six weeks later, the patient showed little change, except for being slightly more relaxed. Three months after Volume 73, Number 1, January 1984
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the treatment, he had discontinued all psychotropic drugs and stopped drinking. He was now working as a clinical assistant and amazed at his own ability to speak freely to patients and staff, looking them straight in the eye.
von Keller G. Asclepias tuberosa. Zschr klass Horn 1983; 27: 72-4. A lay practitioner had developed severe pain in the left shoulder. He was also having dreams of flying above the roofs of a large town. On the symptoms of "dreams of flying", he took Xanthoxylum, with no result. Detailed analysis of remedies which had "dreams of flying" led him to Asclepias tuberosa. In Savary A., Journal de la Society Gallicane de Medecine homaeopathique, deuxieme serie, tome III, Paris 1858, page 721, he found: "Shooting from left chest into left shoulder, which was painful on movement", and "pain in left shoulder some seconds after rising in the morning". This was the exact modality, and Asclepias proved highly effective. Five days after taking the remedy, similar pains developed temporarily in the right foot. Diagonal pains are a further Aselepias symptom. The case is reported firstly to make known the Asclepias symptoms from Savary's proving, which are not to be found in the repertories. Repertories presently suffer from limitation of space, so that full details of symptoms cannot be given. The key symptom given above, pain a few seconds after rising, may also have been excluded because Hale in his New Remedies expressed a poor opinion of Savary's proving. Asclepias owes its inclusion in the rubric "Flight" in the synthetic repertory to an accident. Allen rendered the "Rtves fatigants, de duels, fuites, etc." of the French proving as "Tiresome dreams of duels, flight, etc." Asclepias should nevertheless be listed for its symptom of "flight above the house tops". It is also noted that importance attaches to full versions of symptoms being listed. Asclepias would never have been chosen if the patient had been limited to the usual brief versions given in the materia medicas. In future, especially with the help of computers, it should be possible to have repertories that give each symptom in full and yet present the information clearly and in easily accessible form.
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From other journals Miiller HV. Phobische Angst. Z s c h r klass H o m 1983; 27:64-71. The case history is given of a medical student about to take his finals who was suffering from anthropophobia. The patient, a doctor's son, had a long history of social inferiority feelings. He had lost his ability to enjoy life, to laugh, was withdrawn, yet could be aggressive. He had been treated by a depth psychologist, and had had hospital treatment for alcohol and drug abuse. The phobia had persisted. Differential diagnosis between B a r i u m carb. and A m b r a led to the choice of B a r i u m carb., with a single i.v. dose of the 200c given. Six weeks later, the patient showed little change, except for being slightly more relaxed. Three months after Volume 73, Number 1, January 1984
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the treatment, he had discontinued all psychotropic drugs and stopped drinking. He was now working as a clinical assistant and amazed at his own ability to speak freely to patients and staff, looking them straight in the eye.
von Keller G. Asclepias tuberosa. Zschr klass Horn 1983; 27: 72-4. A lay practitioner had developed severe pain in the left shoulder. He was also having dreams of flying above the roofs of a large town. On the symptoms of "dreams of flying", he took Xanthoxylum, with no result. Detailed analysis of remedies which had "dreams of flying" led him to Asclepias tuberosa. In Savary A., Journal de la Society Gallicane de Medecine homaeopathique, deuxieme serie, tome III, Paris 1858, page 721, he found: "Shooting from left chest into left shoulder, which was painful on movement", and "pain in left shoulder some seconds after rising in the morning". This was the exact modality, and Asclepias proved highly effective. Five days after taking the remedy, similar pains developed temporarily in the right foot. Diagonal pains are a further Aselepias symptom. The case is reported firstly to make known the Asclepias symptoms from Savary's proving, which are not to be found in the repertories. Repertories presently suffer from limitation of space, so that full details of symptoms cannot be given. The key symptom given above, pain a few seconds after rising, may also have been excluded because Hale in his New Remedies expressed a poor opinion of Savary's proving. Asclepias owes its inclusion in the rubric "Flight" in the synthetic repertory to an accident. Allen rendered the "Rtves fatigants, de duels, fuites, etc." of the French proving as "Tiresome dreams of duels, flight, etc." Asclepias should nevertheless be listed for its symptom of "flight above the house tops". It is also noted that importance attaches to full versions of symptoms being listed. Asclepias would never have been chosen if the patient had been limited to the usual brief versions given in the materia medicas. In future, especially with the help of computers, it should be possible to have repertories that give each symptom in full and yet present the information clearly and in easily accessible form.
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