THIS month finishes Dr. Burnetts epoch-making booklet, which treats of “Vaccinosis”-Thuja-Homoeoprophylaxis. Working on his lines, as here laid down, Thuja, he used to say, was worth 200 pounds a year to him; enabling him, as it enables us from time to time, to cure quite a number of cases of intractable disease-asthma-skin neuralgias – even epilepsy – where we should otherwise helpless.
Thuja is not cure for asthma, neuralgia, etc. But it enables some of the patients suffering from these disease to get well. Homoeopathy does not cure diseases per se. Correctly applied, it appears to lift the bar on health in certain cases, and allows the patient to cure himself. Of course, Thuja is only one among such remedies.
Parts of the little book may strike some superior persons as being somewhat old history, perhaps hardly worthy of reproduction in our day. But there are lessons to be had everywhere-for those who can learn. And this small monograph is so full of practical wisdom as well as brilliant personal experience, that it has seemed well worth reproducing, were it only for its shrewd concluding words, which still need emphasizing: “Pasteurs attenuating it” (a virus) “by poisoning a series of animals is ridiculous: an ordinary vial will do just as well.” And if just as well, just as better. You can sterilize bottles, not animals.
And what impurities you material may pick up, when run through a series of dogs or rabbits, or other “cheap animals”, who shall say! “Trust in Cod and keep your skin intact.” Some of us have experienced the difficulty of dealing with the hopelessly broken- down in health, who have submitted-almost proudly! to operation after operation, and injection after injection, till, in despair, they come to the homoeopath to cure-whatever is left.
We have been asked “the dose in drug-proving”, and cannot do better than reproduce part of the article dealing with this question from CARROLL DUNHAMs Homoeopathy, the Science of Therapeutics; because Dunham there discusses the matter in a way a could not aspire to do.
Dunham-the gentle- the greatly beloved- appears, curiously enough (Carroll Dunham-his Life and Works by DR.E. Wallace MacAdam) in the July number of the Homoeopathic Recorder. We will skim it through.
Dunham, “born in 1828, died in 1877,” was regarded as “our great man” “I have often wondered what manner of man this was, and how it happened that his name is kept alive by our Dunham Club so long after his death. When the club was organized he must have been dead about fifteen years; but his spirit must have lived on to stimulate those boys who called their little gatherings after his honoured name.” “One gets the idea of a frail, reserved boy, more found of books than of games. Graduated with honours…
Had been cured of a dangerous illness by Homoeopathy after eminent regular doctor has failed, and this, together with his friendship with Dr. P.P. Wells, turned him towards Homoeopathy. He studied also under Constantine Hering, gaining the most helpful and generous friend I have ever made”. And “later on, when leading specialists had said he had not long to live, this time with cardiac disease, it was Hering who, after exhaustive study, saved him with Lithium carb”.
“The advantage of having a banker for a father is evident: instead of beginning to practice he went abroad. In Dublin a dissecting wound nearly ended his life: butt he was again saved, this time by Lachesis 12, three times a day for five days.” (Lachesis, our first snake poison, was given to Homoeopathy by Hering.) Dunham studied in PAris under Trousseau; then in Berlin- Vienna-Munster, where he stayed long enough with the great Boenninghausen to learn his methods. (Later, it was Dunham who taught Nash to use the potencies.).
Dr. MacAdam says, “I have a set of homoeopathic remedies, reputed to be grafts from the 200ths that Carroll Dunham ran up, using the jigger of an old saw-mill to succus the remedies.” It was these 200s that gave Nash “confidence in high potencies”.
“The advantage of having a banker for a father is evident: instead of beginning to practice he went abroad. In Dublin a dissecting wound nearly ended his life: but he was again saved, this time by Lachesis 12, three times a day for five days.” (Lachesis, our first snake poison, was given to Homoeopathy by Hering.) Dunham studied in Paris under Trousseau; then in Berlin- Vienna-Munster, where he stayed long enough with the great Boenninghausen to learn his methods. (Later, it was Dunham who taught Nash to use the potencies.) Dr. MacAdam says, “I have a set of homoeopathic remedies,s reputed to be grafts from the 200ths that Carroll Dunham ran up, using the jigger of an old saw-mill to succus the remedies.” It was these 200s that gave Nash “confidence in high potencies”.
