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Oct 21, 2013

A CASE OF COLICKY PAIN WITH A FOETUS-LIKE MOVEMENT - By A. W. K. Choudhury



The
 Homoeopathic Recorder
 Vol. XX Lancaster, Pa., April, 1905. No. 4.
 


A CASE OF COLICKY PAIN WITH A FOETUS-LIKE
 
MOVEMENT IN ABDOMEN 
 
TREATED WITH
 
A SINGLE HOMCEOPATHIC MEDICINE.
 
By A. W. K. Choudhury, M. D.
 
Patient, a poor Mohammedan female adult, named Makhau, 
came under my homoeopathic treatment May 27, 1904. She be- 
ing mother of two children, both surviving. She came to me 
with the following history and symptoms: 
 
The colicky pain commences from the left ovarian region and 
spreads rightward to below the umbilicus, and then extends up- 
wards. It is not constant, but when it ails her it increases in the 
morning and continues till noon, then the pain subsides and fever 
sets in. This fever is characterized by a chill of about an hour, 
then a severe heat followed by sweat, no thirst in any stage. The 
pain under pressure on the left ovarian region is constant, in- 
creasing especially at each menstrual nisus; during menses she 
has pains all over body and is feverish; flow copious, may be 
with blackish clots, and it continues six days; menses irregular, 
some days too early or some days too late. She had been ill nine 
months. 
 
She notices a foetus-like movement in the abdomen from left to 
right and then sometimes upwards. 
 
Bowels open daily, once; stool hard, not sufficient; never diar- 
rhoea; no thread-worms; acidity afternoon, evening or morning; 
heartburn; acid eructation; taste in mouth insipid; appetite dull; 
urine sometimes colored; sleep, good; heaviness of head; tooth- 
ache. 
 
Dark complexion and black hair. 
 
Never leucorrhoea; vertigo when closing the eyes; headache; 
photophobia and lachrymation since nine months ago; no warts 
anywhere; spleen little enlarged; pain under percussion on right 
hypochondrium and epigastrium, and below navel a little to the 
left; nails all right; vaccinated in infancy; itching all over body 
since about a month; itching increasing while sweating. 
 
1 -6- 1904. — Thuja 30, two doses given; to be taken daily, one 
dose. 
 
Diet: Rice, vegetable curry, milk. 
 
Bathing allowed. 
 
7-6-1904. — Felt much better for three days; menses five days; 
menses on this occasion at full month; pain in abdomen much 
less; no foetus-like movement in abdomen any more; complaints 
little increased since yesterday; no toothache; pain all over body; 
bowels open; appetite as above; heartburn. 
 
Repeated one dose of Thuja 30. 
 
8-6-1904. — Pain in abdomen no more felt; no more foetus-like 
movement in abdomen; pain all over body somewhat less; heart- 
burn always, frequent eructation; daily, one or two better stools; 
stools soft with bad smell; appetite not good after evening; taste 
in mouth insipid; burning of eyes; heat of soles of feet; paleness 
of hands and of vertex; pain under pressure on abdomen a little 
below the navel and a little to the left, where a hardened structure 
of about the size of a hen's egg is felt under the fingers; slight 
enlargement of spleen; no pain under pressure on right hypo- 
chondrium and epigastrium. Placebo. 
 
She continued under treatment and observation till the 14th 
inst., getting only Placebo. She gradually improved and fully 
recovered. 
 
Remarks. — Three doses only cured her complaint. A bodily 
complaint of nine months' duration disappearing with the ad- 
ministration of three doses of the medicine would not fail to excite 
envy and admiration in the bosom of our elder brothers, the 
allopaths, if they kindly condescend to study the case. 
 
Thuja was tried in this case, and why? Dr. H. C. Allen, in 
his Therapeutics of Fevers, mentions Thuja, Crocus, Sulphur and 
Nux as having the movements of living child in abdomen. 
Our patient was vaccinated; and treating chronic cases previously 
vaccinated we may get a good help using Thuja. Her left 
ovarian pain increasing at every menstrual nisus is another symp- 
tom in the patient to indicate Thuja. So Thuja was selected and 
given her. 
 
Satkhira P. O., Calcutta, India. 
 


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