You are in a sense quite right in saying that my last-cited case was not a complete cure, but kindly note that I did not say it was; moreover, the cure was enough, for what more does an octogenarian want than the power to read the newspaper by the hour As my thirty-sixth reason for being a homoeopath I will mention one other case of cataract-this time so completely cured that patient can read No.1. Is that good enough
The lady came first to me in June, 1884, being then fiftyeight years of age, and as clear-thinking, hard-headed a sceptic as ever you saw. The diagnosis was made by an eminent specialist, whose opinion you would not dream of doubting. You see he is so sweetly orthodox! If he were to turn homoeopath, however, he would not (thereafter) know a lens from a broom-handle!
I looked humbly at the lenses-both of them-and found them uniformly milky-opaque; but as I am not an oculist, and, besides, am so sorely heterodox, you will not care to know how the lady's lenses appeared to my optics; so just take it parenthetically as it were, that to me they were "kinder darkish like"; cataract our orthodox specialist calls it! Well, I discharged her cured in July, 1887, and able to read No.1.
As I said before, is that good enough In any case it is my thirty-sixth reason for being a homoeopath-so I bid good-bye to cataracts for the present!
P.S.-In case you should care to know what remedies this lady took, I subjoin a list, viz. Urea 6 and then 12, Psorinum C, Calc. carb. C, Sulphur 0, Silicea 30, Thuja C, Calc. carb. 30, Causticum C, Silicea C, Caust. 30, Lapis alb. 30, Sulphur 30, Conium 1, Calc. flour. 30, Graphites 30 Chelidonium 0, Hepar 3, etc. The reasons for giving them I cannot explain here but the patient's lenses ar now so clear that she sees to thread needles.
Note.-The indications for all these remedies may be found in any Materia Medica Pura Homoeopathica.*.