Usually there is some disease or irritation in the lower part of the body, either arising primarily there, or else expressed there homoeopathically. I will not enter into the details of these causes here, as the subject is too large for my present purpose, which will be sufficiently served if I say that wearing pessaries, making intra-vaginal injections for the purposes of cleanliness or otherwise, or for the cure of ulcerations and discharges, and other mechanical hurts and injuries to the parts, the cautery, genetic frauds and surrogates,all these may severely result in the formation of tumours in the ovaries, uterus, or breasts.
The one point I here insist upon is that mammary tumours do not usually arise from a cause existing primarily in the breasts themselves, but the cause is usually in some other more or less remote part of the organism, most frequently in the ovaries. Or the cause is organismic, and the tumour is the mammary expression of the constitutional condition of the individual.
And even where the tumour arises directly from a knock or blow, or from pressure from the stays, there is usually something in the constitutional crisis that favours neoplasms; and it is this something which constitutes the danger to the future integrity of the individual. If I am correct in what I here maintain with regard to the place of real primary origin and causation of tumours in the female breasts, then it must follow that operation can never be any cure, since it is only the product that is operatively got rid of, and not the disease radically.
In proof of this, see the number of cases which I relate even in this small volume, in which the disease returned in the other breast after it had been cut out of one. The number of times in which I myself have seen this recurrence of tumours, after they had been got rid of by operation, is so great that I could adduce an absolutely overwhelming chain of evidence to prove this my contention, but I forbear; the fact is patent, and within the experience of all medical men, and, indeed, of almost all ladies of experience who take cognizance of what goes on in their own social circles.
I conclude, therefore, that both theory and experience condemn the use of the knife, which is no cure for tumours. Is an operation, then, absolutely and always useless and damnable? Not quite that, though it is not often needful if the case is taken early when the tumour is young, as medicines can cure it vitally; BUT when it has become large — very large, broken, granulating, and auto-infective, then an operation is called for, but medicinal means should be at once used to prevent recurrence. In the earlier stages operation is damnable and dangerous.
Burnett was one of the first to speak about vaccination triggering illness. This was discussed in his book, Vaccinosis, published in 1884. He introduced the remedy Bacillinum. He authored twenty books, including the much loved "Fifty Reason for Being a Homeopath." He was the editor of The Homoeopathic World.