{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 314/1924-04-22/p061","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"> Question about a neurasthenic patient. The matter responded very well to formic acid injections, but came back this year and did not go away despite formic acid injections. Eventually, I went down the wrong track by taking out an ingrown toenail, after which the matter got even worse. I tried formic acid again, reinforced with silicon; but I couldn't get through. The pain became unbearable, radiating from the foot to the calf. It was a variety of pains, sometimes rhythmic. I had to give him morphine injections, which I had to increase a lot; I barely touched him to keep the pain within tolerable levels. He couldn't sleep anymore. He would sit holding his foot, complaining of terrible pain; I tried alternating foot baths. The foot had to be amputated halfway up the calf. I ask because unfortunately the process also wants to appear on the other leg. What can be done?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"First Discussion","site_heading":"Etheric Plant Forces and Spiritual Diagnosis in Therapy","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Schließlich kam ich auf falsche Fährte, indem ich einen eingewachsenen Zehennagel herausnahm, Danach wurde die Sache noch schlimmer. Ich versuchte noch einmal Ameisensäure, verstärkt mit Silizium; ich drang aber nicht durch. Die Schmerzen wurden unerträglich, vom Fuße ausgehend bis in die Wade. Es waren verschiedene Schmerzen, einmal rhythmisch. Ich mußte ihm Morphiumeinspritzungen geben, die ich sehr verstärken mußte; ich berührte ihn kaum, um die Schmerzen im Bereich des Erträglichen zu halten. Er konnte nicht mehr schlafen. Er saß da und hielt seinen Fuß, klagte über wahnsinnige Schmerzen; ich versuchte Fußwechselbäder. Der Fuß mußte amputiert werden in der Mitte der Wadengegend. Ich frage, weil der Prozeß leider auch am andern Bein auftreten will. 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