Eugene Underhill Seeing and observing the patient is somewhat different from reading over the record. We noted and unusual restlessness and many erratic motions (see Gestures, page 50 of the Repertory). It almost seemed as if the diagnosis of chorea was still a possibility.
The retardation and obscuration of this most beneficent therapy has been bemoaned and lamented for years without the slightest amelioration in the general situation. Something more effective than mere condemnation of other methods of treatment is necessary to pull us out of the ditch.
Constant and consistent study of the materia medica gives one a broad knowledge of symptoms groupings and greatly facilitates accurate prescribing. No amount of cleverness in repertory analysis can take the place of personal acquaintance with each remedy. Conversely no materia medica expert can afford to practise homoeopathy without the aid of one or more standard repertories.
Study the materia medica and learn how to use the repertories and be ready to prescribe for the sick, be the disease what it may. To think of a lost of remedies for pneumonia and a list for some other disease is to run some risk of prescribing on the diagnosis rather than on the symptoms of the patient.
The principle or law of similars is simple and easy of demonstration and yet from Hippocrates to Hahnemann and from Hahnemann to our own time the antipathic mode of treatment has chiefly held sway, perhaps because it is attuned more closely to the innate contrariness of human nature.
Homoeopathy as practised by the best prescribers employs the single remedy in the single dose and usually in the centesimal scale of potency range. This combination is unique. The majority of physicians who represent themselves as homoeopathists would scarcely qualify on all three counts and yet the most consistently brilliant results are achieved by those who prescribe in this way.
Although genius may express itself in the face of apparently overwhelming odds and terrific physical handicaps, nevertheless tireless energy and radiant health make easier the path of attainment and help to bring into actually the ruling desires of the mind and heart. Realization comes generally to those whose thoughts and desires are sharply focussed.
One of the obvious duties of the physician is to carefully observe the results of the treatment he prescribes. To intelligently observe there must be therapeutic simplicity. If several treatments or correctives are employed simultaneously or in rapid sequence accurate evaluation of each is difficult if not impossible.
In its highest expression the true similimum is capable of working a miracle of cure. When homoeopathy is completely unfolded and correlated, when the physician becomes in fact both scientist and artist, then will those sublime acts of healing of two millenniums ago be rendered more fully comprehensible.
Some of the great philosophers have eaten neither meat nor fish nor flesh of any kind. They have refused to shed the blood of any creature either in person or by proxy. Partaking of the herbs of the field and he pure fresh fruits of the tree and vine they have cleansed and purified their bodies, rendering them more worthy vehicles for the higher expression of the mind and spirit.
Each surgical suppression is followed sooner or later, by a new manifestation of the internal disorder-the same disease in another form, bearing s new name and attacking a different part of the organism to the ever increasing detriment of the patient.
Traditional medicine dates from time immemorial. In its long history it has outgrown innumerable practices and made countless new discoveries. The history of medicine, like the history of nations, records many glorious achievements and likewise many dismal and tragic failures.
What does chronic mean to us as Hahnemannians? Does it mean a long case?–it means that to the “successful” physician of whatever school or system of therapy. Does it mean incurability?–if it does there is something radically wrong and we have been boasting of powers we are either failing to use or do not possess.
Learn to know remedies as you know your friends and acquaintances. By pains taking work, close study and observation, you will more and more acquire the ability to see the image of the remedy in the symptom ensemble of the patient. Only by persistent work and effort does the novice finally becomes the artist.
Having disposed of ninety-five per cent of he laity what about that portion of the five per cent who know and want Hahnemannian homoeopathy? Such can, upon careful inquiry, sometimes contact a known follower of Hahnemann. There are some much scattered here and there over the land in spite of the stifling dictatorship exercised by the allopathic medical cult.
Symptoms are manifestations of natures effort to restore equilibrium. The similar remedy, harmonizing as it does with the symptom picture, may temporarily magnify the symptoms. This is what is known as a homoeopathic aggravation, and when not too severe is favorable and helps to prove the homoeopathicity of the remedy.
Can the call for an acute remedy the satisfied by the exhibition of the chronic remedy? How much can an acute remedy upset a chronic case? To be sure an old symptom-the asthma-came back after Phosphorus but the return of old symptoms under certain conditions does not mean curative action. Discrimination is necessary when unlike causes produce similar phenomena such as the return of old symptoms.
Particularly in infants and children are these apt to be occasional and sometimes even frequent little disturbances, efforts on the part of nature to establish equilibrium. To cover all or even several of these troubles with an acute remedy may even defeat the purpose of nature, may, in fact, be suppressive, smoothing over the surface and yet not touching the underlying miasm which continues to smoulder within.
Sometimes there is evidence of syphilitic infection, sometimes there is not, and dont be too sure that you can spot a case of syphilis every time. I have seen cases of syphilis in both men and women which I have observed them again months or years later, and carefully hunting for evidence of the disease, I have been unable to discover any-in some such cases the Wasserman would be still positive, in others negative.
The chancre occurs at the point where the infection gained entrance to the body and may be located anywhere. It often appears on the lips, in the mouth, on the hands or at the sight of any wound, even though slight. Many vaccination wounds are infected with Syphilis either at the time vaccination is performed or at some time before healing.
Man is a three-fold dynamic force composed of Body, Mind, and Spirit-operating as a single entity. Although subject to subtle influences from within and without, if his normal balance is maintained, no limits have been, or can be, imposed upon his achievements. However, many failures, mental kinks, moral lapses, and physical wrecks are directly traceable to elements deficient or out of balance.