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Examination revealed no organic lesion, but there was a definite history of the trouble beginning after a psychoanalysis. Heloderma was prescribed in the 30 dilution t.d.s. and in two days the symptoms which had troubled the patient for three years had disappeared. The anxiety state persisted but in a greatly diminished form.


HELODERMA.

A case is reported of a man of 32, who complained of attacks of anguish, with a feeling of impending death, occurring at night and accompanied by an indescribable sense of cold with intense rigors. Formerly he used to have a warm body and extremities, but in the last three years his hands and feet had become cold. He complained also of an oppression at the base of the neck, a repugnance for mental exertion, and a failure of sexual desire. Examination revealed no organic lesion, but there was a desire.

Examination revealed no organic lesion, but there was a definite history of the trouble beginning after a psychoanalysis. Heloderma was prescribed in the 30 dilution t.d.s. and in two days the symptoms which had troubled the patient for three years had disappeared. The anxiety state persisted but in a greatly diminished form. The author comments on the cure of a symptom of a psychogenic origin by this remedy. ALLENBY, REV.Franc. Hom. Repr. from the British Homoeopathic Journal.

H.A. Roberts
Dr. H.A.Roberts (1868-1950) attended New York Homoeopathic Medical College and set up practrice in Brattleboro of Vermont (U.S.). He eventually moved to Connecticut where he practiced almost 50 years. Elected president of the Connecticut Homoeopathic Medical Society and subsequently President of The International Hahnemannian Association. His writings include Sensation As If and The Principles and Art of Cure by Homoeopathy.