In Sweden the inebriates are isolated, and all their meals are seasoned with Swesnaka Brantwein (the alcoholic drink of the country) until they absolutely refuse to eat. Out of one hundred and thirst-nine inebriates thus treated by Dr. Schreiber in 1848, one hundred and twenty-eight were cured, four had relapses, seven were brought near to death by the treatment.
The treatment by emitting alcoholic drinks and by the alcoholizing of all food is sometimes dangerous, and dopes no contribute, as dopes homoeopathic medication, to the cure of the other vices and failings of the drunkards. The latter medication is therefore generally preferable to the other two.
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NOWADAYS, when people are possessed with the monomania for finding suggestion everywhere, one should not be astonished to see allopathic physicians and their patrons explain by suggestion the cures operated by homoeopathic treatment generally, and so much the more the cure of drunkenness and other passions brought about by homoeopathic remedies. This cure is truly brought about by the remedies and not by suggestion.
1. By means of psychical treatment I usually cure of their passions persons who are treated without knowing it and whom I have never seen.
2. I have made psychical cures which lasted eight years. No cures operated by suggestions have ever been mentioned which lasted so long.
3. Psychical cures are sometimes exceptionally preceded by a drug aggravation, which I should like to be able to spare my patients, although it is a good sign, and is usually followed by a cure.
For instance, a married man, 60 years of age, who had grown more and more jealous during thirty-three years of married life, felt for three weeks, under the influence of a single dose of Laches. 200th, a distinct aggravation of his jealousy, of which he was cured in give weeks. This cure lasted until his death- that is to say, eight or nine years.
4. If I were able to cure by suggestion drunkenness and other passions, I should not take so much trouble to seek for the most efficacious remedy in each case, and I should always care children. Now, quite on the contrary, I cure children of their failings by means of remedies much less often than adults, because remedies are less able to develop reason and sensitiveness to the criticism of those who surrounded them in children, in whom these sentiments are only in the germinal state, than in adults, who already possess them in a more or less developed condition. Hence, among adults there occurs, under the influence of the remedies administered, an activity of thought and observation which assists the action of these remedies themselves. Thus I cure of jealousy almost all of the adults and up to the present time, I have been unable to cure this failing in children of seven years of age of under.
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Jean Pierre Gallavardin (1825 – 1898) was a French orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to gain international renown. Gallavardin was a Physician at the Homeopathic Hospital in Lyons.
Gallavardin set up a homeopathic Dispensary for the cure of alcoholics, often working in conjunction with priests, and he wrote several books on this subject.
Jean Pierre Gallavardin wrote Psychism and Homeopathy, The Homoeopathic Treatment of Alcoholism, How to Cure Alcoholism the Non-toxic Homoeopathic Way, Repertory of Psychic Medicines with Materia Medica, Plastic Medicine, and articles for The British Journal of Homeopathy, On Phosphoric Paralysis, and he collated the statistics on pneumonia and other cases for the United States Journal of Homeopathy, and he contributed widely to homeopathic publications.
