We have quoted at some length, but condensing, in order that we may take heart, and learn to do, and to hope. It may be well to reproduce these booklets of Dr.Cooper’s; since the experiences of such men of originality and success should not be forgotten and lost.
We remember to have seen about half a dozen cases of gastric or duodenal ulceration clear up under this drug. They were all about the same time, at the end of the last Great War. so far as one remembers, when one saw a great deal of Ward work, and when only one of the lot resisted Ornithogalum and needed, one remembers, Phosphorus. In the worst of these cases, the patient was absolutely blanched from loss of blood, and had to be hurried into a bed in hospital, to brilliantly clear up on Ornithogalum. And that she did clear up one knows, since she still comes up for trifling ailments, all these years afterwards, and reports that she has never had a return of the trouble. Therefore one realizes that Dr.Cooper was correct in claiming that Ornithogalum can CURE, in suitable cases, gastric or duodenal ulcerations.
But we need definite symptoms if we are to prescribe the drug with any degree of assurance. Its locality and mode of attack are important, yet we need more, for, after all other drugs have caused, and therefore cured, such ulceration:-what about Kali bichrom., Arsenicum, Phosphorus?-how are we to choose between them? Try them one by one?-or give the one that has helped with some previous case, and stands therefore first in our estimation?. NOT GOOD ENOUGH! We must know more, in order to make fit choice of the proper remedy, and so establish healing contact.
Like all the onions, as Dr.Cooper tells us, it is capable of evoking really terrible flatulence-in sensitives. And we must remember that it is only from sensitives that one can obtain useful provings, and it is only sensitives that will respond curatively to a remedy, i.e. be stimulated, thereby, to curative reactions.
We have turned up three of Dr.Cooper’s original pamphlets published in 1897, 1898 and 1899. In one of these, in regard to his “Arborivital remedies”, he tells us:
“An Arborivital Remedy is one whose action can only be explained, by supposing a hidden force to exist in plants that is not demonstrable to the senses, and that is independent of any special mode of preparation.” And as to What if an Arborivital Dose? he says:
“It is simply a single drop of the preserved juice of a fresh plant that is allowed to expend its action till no evidence forthcoming of this action.”
One may say that Dr.Cooper had the reputation (as one learnt accidentally from a stranger at a garden party years ago) of “the one doctor who cures cancer”. Have we even one in these days?.
