DR.MARGARET LUCY TYLER (1857-1943)
An English homeopath who was a student of James Tyler Kent
Margaret Tyler has become one of the most influential homeopaths of all time
Graduated from Edinburgh & Brussels Universities.
Worked at Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital for forty years. Speciality was in treating-the mentally Backward Children. To Chicago, to study with Kent. Close associate to J.H.Clarke. Kent did not approve her card repertory since he felt that it was obstacles for new comers. Kent returned a critique. The use of nosodes as treatment for miasms is now quite common. Margaret Tyler in England and others since, have made frequent use of the nosodes of vaccines (Diptherinum, Morbillinum, Varicellinum) to treat for past traumas….
The use of ascending potencies over a short period of time is not new, if not necessarily widely practised. Margaret Tyler was one to use common potencies (30, 200, 1M, 10M) over several days, or even only a few hours apart. Introduced ELIMINATING symptom
Died: 21st June 1943, at the age of 86.
WORKS
- How not to Practice Homeopathy
- Homoeopathic drug pictures-1942
- Punched card repertory-based on Kent repertory-1912
- Acute conditions, injuries
- Different ways of finding the remedy
- Drosera
- Hahnemann’s conception of chronic disease, as caused by parasitic micro-organisms
- Pointers to some Hay fever remedies
- Repertorising by M.L.Tyler and John Weir
- Pointers to the common remedies- originally published in 1900
BOOK PROPER
- Title page – Pointers to the common remedies- Dr. M.L.Tyler
- Contents
- On prescribing
- Therapeutic part
- Concerning the remedies
ON PRESCRIBING….
Even though many drugs have produced the symptoms of a disease, only the one medicine that has evoked the exact conditions of the individual patient will cure the patient.
If we desire to evoke the power, we must conform to its conditions.
The only known law of healing is Hahnemann’s “similia similibus curentur”.
Law does not fail. It is we who fails in our attempts to put it in action. The law is inexorable.
In case of epidemics Dr Hahnemann says that by taking the symptoms of a number of cases you can select a drug that covers the lot and cure practically every case of that epidemic but the same medicine might not be useful in the next year. People of certain temperaments are affected by certain conditions- by cold dry winds or damp cold or by getting wet. Modalities also will be different.
CONTENTS
Vol 1- cold, influenza, sore-throat, cough, croup, acute chest, asthma
Vol 2- Stomach and digestive disorders, constipation, acute diarrhoea, acute intestinal condition and colic, epidemic diarrhoea of children, acute dysentery, cholera
Vol 3-Dentition,rickets, malnutrition, tuberculosis, diseases of bones and glands
Vol4- Convulsions, chorea, rheumatism of children, rheumatism of adults, common heart remedies
Vol 5- Chickenpox, diphtheria, erysipelas, herpes zoster, measles, mumps, scarlet fever, smallpox, typhoid and typhoid conditions, vaccination, whooping cough
Vol 6- Some drugs of strong mentality, fears with their dreams, indices
Vol 7- Nephritis and suppression, Renal calculi and renal colic, cystitis, enuresis, retention
Vol 8- Vertigo, Headache, Apoplexy, Sleeplessness, Collapse, sunstroke
Vol 9- Organ remedies
GENERAL ARRANGEMENT
CHAPTER NAME
Medicines for a particular condition with differentiating points
Quotes of famous physicians described
Eg: Apoplexy- Nash, Boger
Miniature repertory (Cold, Rheumatism)
Grading of symptoms:
Capitals
Eg: Page 7- Rhus tox- Cold damp weather
Page 6- Kali iod- Frontal sinuses
Italics
Roman
Comparisons given in brackets
Cases explained accordingly
Mentioned about indications of nosodes (headache, nephritis, sleeplessness)
Eg: Nephritis- Hippozaeninum, Streptococcinum
Heart remedies- Tuberculinum, Medorrhinum, Leuticum, Diphtherinum, etc
Vol 1
- Common remedies of
- Cold
- Remedies are arranged more or less for acuteness and for comparison
- Miniature repertoy
- Influenza
- Camphor and Nux in influenza
- After influenza badly recovered from
- Sore-throat
- Cough
- Croup- Spasmodic croup
- Acute chest
- Bronchitis, Broncho-pneumonia, Pneumonia, Pleurisy, Pleuro-Pneumonia
- Early cases, more advanced cases, desperate cases
- Asthma
- Mentioned Big type remedies for asthma and Hahnemann’s chronic remedies of constitutions
Vol 2
- Stomach and digestive remedies
- Constipation*
- Brief pointers in acute uncomplicated diarrhoea
- The great remedy for ptomaine poisoning
- Acute intestinal condition colic and diarrhoea
- Epidemic diarrhoea of children: cholera infantum
- Remedy must be not only a homoeopathic remedy, but homoeopathic
- A medicine to cure must be able to produce just the condition we seek to cure
- Accessory management
- Genus epidemicus- carefully collecting the symptoms of several individual cases
- Severe urgent cases with collapse
- Acute dysentery
- Cholera
- Camphor in cholera
CONCERNING HOMOEOPATHY FOR CHILDREN
- Children’s work is
- Most fascinating
- Usually less complicated
- Indications for the remedy are clearer
- Results more rapid attainment
- Whether the ailment is acute or chronic
“A healthy child may be sick unto death where as a diseased child may be a museum of pathology and not yet ill”
Homoeopathic essentials for successful prescription in children
Disposition- change
Fears- habitual or new ones
Sensitiveness
Food cravings and loathing
Gross pathological symptoms- qualified
Vol 3
- Dentition
- Nososdes must not be forgotten in delayed dentition
- Rickets
- Scurvy rickets
- Malnutrition, wasting, marasmus
- Tuberculosis, diseases of bones and glands
- Drosera excels all other homoeopathic remedies in the treatment of T.B gland and bone
- Forgotten useful tip: Calc iod. Was of great value in some cases of suppurating glands, sometimes causing them to reabsorb and disappear without discharging when there would be only a little thickening of tissue like tiny scar left
Vol 4
- Convulsions
- Chorea
- Pointers in the rheumatism of children
- Pointers in acute rheumatism more the adult type
- Repertory part
- Common heart remedies
Vol 5
- Chickenpox
- Diphtheria
- Erysipelas
- Herpes zoster
- Measles
- Mumps
- Scarlet fever
- Chief remedy
- Other remedies
- Smallpox
- Typhoid and typhoid conditions
- Ill effects of vaccination
- Whooping cough
Vol 6
- Some drugs of strong mentality with indications
- Depressed mentality
- Depression and grief
- Depression to despair
- Depression to despair and to suicide
- Insane ideas
- Insane ideas – unreality
- Excitement, restlessness, anguish
- Excitement with delusions, violence
- Wild delusions
- Violence
- Oversensitive- violent impulses
- Oversensitive- irritable
- Oversensitive-effects of anger
- Excited- cruel- obscene
- Excitement, alienation& craziness
- Craziness- apprehension
- Dissociation and dual personality
- Excitement-loquacity- exalted ideas
- Loquacity- jealousy- suspicion
Section 2
- Fears and anxiety with their dreams
- Fear of death: of sleep: of danger
- Fear of death, endless fears
- Fear of ghosts: hallucinations
- Fear of death: horrors and hallucinations
- Fear of insanity: diverse terrors
- Fear of insanity: disease: horrors
- Fear of insanity: apprehension
- Unreality: agonies of fear
- Every fear: crime sensation
- Fear and crime sensation
- Crime sensation: anxiety: fear
- Crime sensation: fears; insanity; danger
- Frightful imagings: fear death; suicide
- Everything terrifying: dark: men: death
- Fear of disease: alone: of men
- Fear and dread” creepy fear”
- Fearfulness- vague- suicidal
Vol 7
- Nephritis and suppression*
- Consider any of the nosodes, family history, or past history suggesting them
- Renal calculi and renal colic*
- Cystitis
- Enuresis
- Retention
- Vol 8
- Vertigo*
- Headache
- Always remember the nosodes of previous (acute) or family illnesses
- Remember also manipulation of neck
- Apoplexy*
- Grouped for comparisons
- Tip- Diphtherinum
- Sleeplessness
- Collapse
- Sunstroke
Vol 9
- Organ remedies
- Some remedies with indications
- Hepatitis
- Jaundice
- Gall-stone colic
- Pancreas
- Spleen
- Appendix and caecum
- Kidney and bladder
CONCERNING THE REMEDIES
Remedies to be kept as medicated granules, their most convenient form of carrying
A dose: half a dozen granules- less or more
Given dry on tongue, to be dissolved before swallowing
For quick effect: In acute conditions dissolve half a dozen granules in half a tumbler of water, stir, to be given a desert spoonful 6hrs apart
In very urgent conditions: every hr/ half hrly till reaction sets in, then stop as long as improvement continues.
Camphor antidotes most of medicines; hence to be kept away from medicine chest
Potencies: best for initial experiment: 12th, 30th
MERITS
- Very valuable, useful therapeutic book
- Most generally helpful remedies with suggestive differentiation given
- Medicines are given according to their importance and not alphabetically
- Book helps to manage acute conditions. Comparison are given within drug
- Reference of cases are given within the drug which helps to increase the confidence of physician. Easy to find out as it is grouped under a section
DEMERITS
- Limited therapeutics.
- Cannot be used for a wide reference.
- Repertory part only present in two chapters.
