Zinc. in progressive weakness

Nash E B, Leaders in homoeopathic therapeutics, 1913, p. 186

Zincum metallicum in progressive weakness.

A young lady about 20 years of age complained, a week before I was called, of weakness, or feeling of general prostration; headache, and loss of appetite, but the greatest complaint was of prostration. She was a student, and her mother, who was an excellent nurse, attributed all her sickness to overwork at school, and tried to rest and "nurse her up." But she continued to grow worse. I prescribed Gelsemium for her and followed it with Bryonia according to indications. She then ran through a mild course of two weeks longer and seemed to be convalescing quite satisfactorily.

Being left in a room alone, while sleeping and perspiring, she threw off the clothes, caught a cold, and relapsed. Of course, the "last state of that patient was worse than the first." The bowels became enormously distended, profuse hemorrhage occurred, which was finally controlled by Alumen, a low form of delirium came on, the prostration became extreme notwithstanding the hemorrhage was checked, until the following picture obtained— staring eyes rolled upward into the head, head retracted; complete unconsciousness, lying on back and sliding down in bed, twitching, or rather intense, violent trembling all over, so that she shook the bed. I had nurses hold her hands night and day; she shook and trembled so, hippocratic face, extremities deathly cold to knees and elbows, pulse so weak and quick I could not count it. And intermittent; in short, all signs of impending paralysis of the brain. The case seemed hopeless, but I put ten drops of Zincum metallicum in two drams of cold water, and worked one-half of it between her set teeth, a little at a time, and an hour after the other half. About one hour after the last dose, she turned her eyes down and faintly said, Milk. Through a bent tube she swallowed a half glass of milk, the first nourishment she had received in 24 hours. She received no more medicine for four days, and her condition improved steadily all the time. She afterward received a dose of Nux vomica and progressed rapidly to a perfect recovery. So Zincum 200th can, like other metals, perform miracles when indicated.