In no orthodox work have I ever read to any remedy being given for any individual symptoms when discussing a disease, thus all prescriptions of the orthodox fall short of actual needs. This individual prescription is well stated by Dr. Guy Buckley Stearns, Associate Professor of the New York Homoeopathic Medical College, thus:
1st, that each individual reacts to the infections according to the laws of his own being; 2nd, That his symptoms are the result of that reaction, and that they represent the bodys attempt to get well; 3rd, that the body reacts as a whole, each tissue doing its part, and the totality of the symptoms represents a single effort and requires a single drug for a cure; 4th, that the curative remedy is that one which stimulates a reaction in the body like the one the body already is attempting, in other words, causes symptoms like those already present; 5th, that the curative reaction of the body is a positive effort, therefore minute doses of the similar or curative drug must be used, because of the fact that small amounts of drugs stimulate while large symptoms suppress reaction, and aggravate existing symptoms of disease.
I now offer the orthodox and the laity a condensed but exact knowledge of how homoeopaths cure cholera, begging the orthodox to think of the words of orthodox Sir William Crookes, “To stop short of any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty, or adverse criticism, is to bring reproach on Science”.
So the obvious thing for orthodoxy to do instantly, is to test homoeopathy, for reasons best understood by a study of the comparative death risks of the two schools of medicine. The reader may not fear an attack of cholera; it is the lessons of homoeopathic precision here given which hold good in any disease.
For the three chief phases of Cholera Asiatica Hahnemann prescribed as follows, and his prescriptions made in 1831 have remained unchanged to this day, microbes notwithstanding.
(1) Camphor is to be given for the first stage of this disease only if the following symptoms are observed. Vomiting, great dry coldness of the external surface; sudden collapse, with complete prostration of all vital forces. The chief point to note is that along with symptoms the body surface must be dry. Rice-water stools may not yet be profuse. The Camphor patient objects to being covered, no matter how cold the body surface may be. Then dry cold collapse, vomiting and watery stools sum up Camphor. It is on record that Dr. Rubini of Naples treated 592 first stage cholera cases without a death with this remedy.
If Camphor in homoeopathic potency is not to be had then employ Spirits of Camphor, giving 2 or 3 drops on a little sugar, every ten minutes, until bodily heat is felt to be returning. If this spirit is dropped into water it will at once crystallize out of the spirit. Besides giving this internally, rub some spirit of camphor on chest, abdomen, and under the arms. If you have caught the disease in the dry stage, this will cure. N.B.–Store this Camphor quite apart from all other homoeopathic drugs. It has the power of destroying some vegetable drugs if in contact.
(2) Veratrum album (3x, 6x, or 30) for second stage. Note well the remarkable difference. There must be icy cold sweat. There will be the same collapse, rapid sinking of forces, skin blue, purple and icy chill; skin wrinkled, and remaining in folds when pinched, but — there must be seen the icy cold sweat, first seen on the forehead, which makes all the difference calling for this drug. In this second stage the rice-water stools and vomiting are more frequent and profuse; stools dribble continually. The face becomes more pinched, eyes sunken, nose pointed, and all the body bathed in icy cold sweat.
The breath is felt to be icy cold. The pains are worse than in the first stage, even drinking to some delirium. Keynote — icy cold sweat, which indicates this drug apart from Camphor, yet both sorts are true cholera.
(3) Cuprum metallicum (6x, 12x to 30). Hahnemann in his great wisdom chose this for quite another phase, yet still cholera. Here the cramps and spasms predominate and characterize this remedy beyond and doubt. The cramps are terrible, generally beginning in the extremities working towards the body. At each stool the abdominal cramps are excruciating.
The belly muscles are contracted and knotted. Vomiting brings on more cramps. There are the same rice-water stools and vomiting but it is the cramps and convulsions which predominate, and if such cramps are seen in other diseases think immediately of Cuprum met. (our name for Copper). For more details of any of these three remedies, should such be wished, read up you Homoeopathic Materia Medica, and rely on the Law of Similars, which is Homoeopathy.
Brother orthodox man, quit the “plans” and guesses of your own books and test homoeopathy, which is simple, sane, and safe, especially so form your patients. You have nothing like the above precision in any book written by an orthodox doctor. The three remedies chosen by Hahnemann are of supreme importance and value, but each in its own particular sphere. They are not interchangeable.
Here is a little side information on Copper as a “preventive” of cholera. A thin oval disc of bright copper worn suspended round the neck so that it will rest on the skin over the stomach should at all times be worn when there is cholera about. If you have no such copper, then rub bright with sand some local copper coins and use these in the same manner. It has been noticed in many countries that workers of copper and also of copper salts have always been exempt from cholera, though the B.M.J. for September 16th, 1865 did call this a “silly practice”.
All suspected or contaminated water should be boiled in brightly scoured copper vessels as wanted for kitchen or drinking purposes, but dont slip up and wash your salads in unboiled water, thus defeating your precautions.
Many of the rank and file of orthodoxy wish to openly study and employ homoeopathy; many such actually send their families to homoeopathic practitioners on the quiet; this I know from many personal conversations, but they one and all fear the old men of the G.M.C., and other so-called “Leaders” in orthodox medicine. To these I suggest that they should from a new medical society which should allow an open trial of homoeopathy, instead of using that orthodox medicine so often decried by their own men.
Nursing in cholera– a most important rule is to apply heat. If no hot water bottles are to be bad, why not use wine, beer, or whisky bottles, as we often had to do in the War, for the collapsed wounded. Place same in each armpit, to feet and between the legs, sides of the body and to the abdomen. Seven such points of heat are none too many. Cover every bottle with clothes of any sort, and pin same on securely, as the patients cannot warn of too much heat, and serious burns can thus occur. Keep bodily warmth up by every means possible.
Fluids must be given to replace those lost by the bowels and mouth. Whey is best, so keep rennet tablets on hand. Milk can be “cut” with sherry. This whey stimulates the kidneys, which is all-important. Egg Albumin water is also important. Put the white of one egg in four ounces of boiled and cooled water. Shake very well and it is ready for drinking. It is nourishment as well as drink. Avoid solids for some time after recovery. Vegetable bouillon is also good later on when the attack is over. This will supply the mineral waste caused by the disease. Meat extracts are taboo.
Now for the “lesson of statistics”. All the world of business is guided by the law of averages, and this should also apply herein.
COMPARATIVE DEATH RISKS IN CHOLERA
ORTHODOX Mortality percent.
Oslers Practice of Medicine, p. 232.. .. 30.80
Allbutts System of Medicine, vol. I, p. 908, with or without treatment.” 50.00
Logic of Figures, p. 118 (Dr. Bradford). Admiral Mordoinow, President of the Imperial Council of Russia, stated that in 1831-32 the mortality under orthodox treatment was.. 40.00
p. 118 (Bradford) Dr. Wilde, orthodox editor of the Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medicine, in his book on Austrian epidemics says the orthodox death rate was 66.00
p. 137 (Bradford) Dr. Mc-Loughlin, an orthodox physician and Inspector of British Cholera Hospitals presented a “missing” report to the House of Commons, which report had been suppressed in the evidence of the Royal Commission formed to draw up Statistics of the various methods employed in treating cholera in Great Britain in 1854. This report showed that the orthodox mortality was.. 59.20
vide Hawleys Report on Life Insurance, 1866, New York, orthodox mortality was .. .. 40.00
Average percentage guaranteed for the Century by the American Institute of Homoeopathy orthodox mortality.. 49.57
Hamburg epidemic, 1892, see Dr. Puhlmanns Handbook of Homoeopathic Practice, p.526, orthodox mortality .. 42.00
See Lancet, July 5th, 1913, p. 60, Japanese epidemic of August, 1912, 1,083 cases with 696 deaths, or .. 64.33
