A landed proprietor, at. 44, wrote to me a few weeks ago: "The medicine I have taken very steadily, and for a long time attended strictly to my diet. In spite of this, my trouble is no better; I may almost say it has become worse. The conditions were these:
1. I feel almost constantly a taste as of bile.
2. My tongue is covered with a curdy, bitter coating.
3. During the day, especially after food, I suffer from eructations of gases, which have either a bitter taste or are tasteless.
4. My complexion is rather yellow.
5. The appetite very slight; no thirst. My favorite beverage, beer, is distasteful to me.
6. I incline to shiver, and am somewhat faint.
7. My head is but little involved, but feel a constant pressure over one eye.
8. Stools are normal, but scanty, on account of spare diet.
The whole condition discloses that I have bile in the stomach." Thus far the patient's own report. To this I may add that the patient in question had already taken by my orders Nux vom. and Pulsat. He had used the waters of Marienbad the previous summer on the recommendation of another medical man. I sent him now Natrum sulph., with the request to take daily three doses of this powder. The gentleman came six or seven days later to my consulting rooms to thank me for the valuable medicine. "The powder," he said, "has really worked wonders. All my ailments have disappeared as if by magic, and I feel at last perfectly well." (From' Schüssler.)
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