She had consulted practically all the gynaecologists of Vienna, had been given ovarian extracts by the mouth and by injection, but nothing had helped her. Besides, she was complaining about her heart which was pressed upon by a chronically inflated stomach and for this trouble she had consulted numerous doctors and specialists. She was given alternatively acids and alkalies, a bland diet and a raw vegetable and fruit diet, etc. Then she was attacked by colitis and last of al she was given a milk diet, Papaverine and Luminal.
When she consulted me I found that she had an enormously enlarged stomach which produced splashing noises. I prescribed for her a strengthening tonic-diet, forbade milk, gave her laxatives and stomach bitters, cold water applications, and told her to leave off the numerous remedies for indigestion and for sleeplessness, which she had been taking hitherto.
As usual, she improves rapidly, while the customary treatment with hormones, sedatives and the useless but customary treatment for indigestion and failed. Of course the wisest treatment would have been not to have deprived the poor woman of her womb.
I can from my own experience confirm the opinion of Professor Aschner, the eminent author of the volume Die Krise Der Medizin–Konstitutions Therapie Als Ausweg (The Crisis in Medicine, the Need for Constitutional Treatment) and of other extremely valuable volumes on gynaecology. If one opens the average Volume on gynaecology, whether written in English, French or German, one notices that it is almost exclusively devoted to surgical procedures. Surgeons, and particularly gynaecologists, glory in so-called heroical operation.
Unfortunately the heroism is not displayed by the surgeons who do these operations, but by their unfortunate victims. A very eminent gynaecologist, who avoids countless operations which are recklessly undertaken by his colleagues told me some time ago: ” Gynaecology, as practised at present, is a crime, but a highly profitable crime.” I repeated that statement to a well-known gynaecologist and he said in reply: “Yes it is quite true, but we gynaecologists have to live.” For the excision of a womb because of an unimportant fibroid anything is charged up to 250 guineas, and more.
Aschner, who knows nothing of Homoeopathy, advocates ” conservative operation ” not radical extirpation. Every good homoeopath will treat such a simple matter as fibroid of the womb by homoeopathic means, and will reduce the growth to utter insignificance, or cause its complete disappearance in about 90 per cent. of the cases, whether it is a bleeding or a non- bleeding fibroid. Unfortunately women allow themselves to be persuaded by well-known gynaecologists to undergo the most extensive and the most disastrous operations.
I myself have seen scores of women who had been artificially made sexless without any urgent need and who were ruined for life. No doctor or surgeon would dare to propose the equivalent operation to a man. For trivial disorder the womb of women is scraped, slight deviations from the normal are treated with surgical violence and every year thousands of live are completely ruined.
A number of women who had been told that they suffered from uterine fibroids, and that there was no treatment except operation sought my advice in their despair. Hahnemann taught more a century ago that diseases should be treated in accordance with he symptoms which they produce. He would never have allowed extirpation of the womb, except in the rarest of cases.
He treated so-called surgical diseases medicinally. His greatest disciples did likewise. Freiherr von Boenninghausen, who was not a doctor, Dr. Thomas Skinner, Dr. Compton Burnett and my predecessor, Dr. John H. Clarke, cured hundreds of cases of uterine fibroid by medicine alone, and I am happy to say that many women who came to me for advice were relieved and cured by the use of homoeopathy which unfortunately is not known to Professor Aschner.
The bleeding of a bleeding fibroid can usually promptly be stopped by Phosphorus, Hamamelis, Millefolium, etc., and the shrinkage and ultimate disappearance of the tumour can be brought about by Aurum muriaticum natronatum, Calcarea iodata, Antimonium sulphuricum aurantium and various other remedies. Of course the constitutional peculiarities of the patient have to be carefully observed. The name of the trouble is of no importance.
If the constitutional symptoms of the patient call for Sulphur, she must be given Sulphur and it will probably cure the tumour of the womb. All these things are know to every earnest and experienced homoeopathic practitioner, but they are disregarded and derided by the eminent specialists who treat heir patients by needless mutilation.
After the German invasion and the annexation of Austria , he lost the teaching authority because of his Jewish origin and emigrated to the United States of America. He opened a practice in New York and ran an arthritis outpatient clinic at Stuyvesant Policlinc , later at Lebanon Hospital . Scientifically Aschner first distinguished himself in the field of internal secretion (endocrinology), then as a medical historian.