Use if Chloral

Use of Chloral Hydrate in Lethargic Somnolency.
A lady about forty five years of age, fresh looking and the mother of a family, was the subject of remark of her friends, on account of her lethargy and sleepiness.Her weakness was such that even crossing the street was almost impossible.She was almost constantly asleep,she would get up in the morning after s good night's rest and even , while dressing she  seemed compelled to sit down and no sooner seated but would fall a sleep.Thus state of things went on for weeks and months, and her allopathic adviser did his best in vain .Ater she came under my treatment I tried first Arnica and then Opium,with but indifferent success, when all at once I bethought me of the great similarity of the case before me to that of a confirmed old chloraleater of my clientele.
Chloral in low dilution cured my patient and she again became brisks active and wide awake.
No. 2 An elderly lady came under my care on April 21 St 1881 for lethargy, languor and, somnolence.
R Tri.2x Choral hyrat 6 grains in water every Three hrs .May 7 th under this date I find these notes in my case book, feels a different creature, vastly improved,less lethargic and decidedly less languid.
She then got the third decimal tri.in lieu of the second,and the two doses a day and then needed no further treatment, as she subsequently informed me when calling with her husband.
Now u can see what I mean .I had before me cases that would not readily fit into my nosological cadet, and yet I was enabled to treat the case en maitre .This is therapeutics independence which I love and affords, as I submit a Very sound reason indeed for being sound reason indeed for being a Homoeopath.

       J.Compton Burnett.
This my post is from 50 Reasons for being a Homoeopath.
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