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ABSTRACT: The so called lesser remedies are in fact not any way
lesser in the linguistic expression of the word but are merely less
often brought into play and most importantly when they are indicated;
they do just as good work as any polychrest can achieve. In my short
span of clinical experience; I have had occasionally an opportunity of
prescribing remedies that have been relegated to the sphere of lesser
known remedies. In this paper, I wish to share with the profession the
experience that I have so far gained with regards to lesser known
remedies.
INTRODUCTION: All drugs of very special and unique action, are
easily studied, and well worth learning up. The polychrests, "the
common drugs of many uses" will serve us ordinarily; and when we
have mastered Sulphur, Sepia, Lycopodium, Calcarea, Nux, etc., etc.,
we are a long way on towards running, fairly easily and successfully,
an ordinary out-patient clinic. But the less universally-useful
drugs, of very peculiar and distinctive features, are less
frequently, yet amazingly helpful. Once mastered, they romp in
brilliantly every time, and make prescribing an excitement and a
delight. Generally they do not "work out", unless for one who has
mastered the secret, that the best work is done with a few of the
"strange, rate and peculiar symptoms", fitting the case, rather than
with a host of somewhat indefinite general symptoms, which, if
the
approach
of
This study of the proving of Electricitas enabled to grasp the fact that
the basis of prescribing in a given case should not be mere cause
(severe electric shock in this case) but its non-linear association with
effect as perceived through the records of proving (in this case,
extreme
anxiousness with
aggravation
from approach
of
thunderstorm).
It is worth mentioning here that Electricitas works especially well in
cases of Tubercular diathesis. In fact Dr. Seward has clinically verified
that injudicious use of electric baths brought on phthisis.
The next case in hand demonstrates the clinical efficacy of the
concept of synthetic prescribing so very well popularized by J.T. Kent.
This case pertains to a 36 year old patient who had trouble of
repeatedly developing nasal blockage with pain at the root of the