Deafness


Deafness. Case II.-Pulsatilla.-Miss E. B., aged 35.

Deafness, cannot understand except when watching the motion of lips.

Can only speak in a whi…


Case II.-Pulsatilla.-Miss E. B., aged 35.

Deafness, cannot understand except when watching the motion of lips.

Can only speak in a whisper.

Deafness and aphonia of many years’ standing, but has been whispering for four years.

Accumulation of yellow, thick phlegm in throat, especially in the morning.

Burning feet and ankles.

Warm room suffocates and flushes face.

Fast walking causes nausea, faintness and flushes the face.

All kinds of bodily exertion heats her up and suffocation follows, with purplish red face.

Fast motion is quite impossible.

Brown spots on the face.

Constant swallowing.

May 9.-Pulsatilla 15m. July 15.-Voice mostly recovered; hearing only slightly improved. Can take active exercise without flushing. Ankles become very weak, they turn when walking, otherwise steadily improving.

No medicine.

Sept. 13.-The only symptoms left are deafness, which has not improved, and weak ankles.

Pulsatilla cm. (H. S.). Oct. 20-Ankles became strong; “except the deafness am perfectly well.”

She has remained perfectly well, but the deafness does not change.

James Tyler Kent
James Tyler Kent (1849–1916) was an American physician. Prior to his involvement with homeopathy, Kent had practiced conventional medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. He discovered and "converted" to homeopathy as a result of his wife's recovery from a serious ailment using homeopathic methods.
In 1881, Kent accepted a position as professor of anatomy at the Homeopathic College of Missouri, an institution with which he remained affiliated until 1888. In 1890, Kent moved to Pennsylvania to take a position as Dean of Professors at the Post-Graduate Homeopathic Medical School of Philadelphia. In 1897 Kent published his magnum opus, Repertory of the Homœopathic Materia Medica. Kent moved to Chicago in 1903, where he taught at Hahnemann Medical College.