It is readily seen that such a system of treating disease constitutes an orderly and logical method. It does not consist in throwing together a great mass of heterogeneous observations, as is done by the old school. It is, as Hahnemann has said, the quickest, most gentle, most reliable and safest manner of obliterating disease and restoring health to the sick.
On striving to again stabilise disordered vital action a just estimate of the energy available, as well as what things must, of necessity, be overcome, can not be dispensed with. Right here let me warn you strongly against allowing your great enthusiasm for pure homeopathy to get the better of your judgement. This is a dangerous rock for a beginner or for the poorly informed. May you safely sail between this Scylla and that Charybdis. Just how far we may venture with the sole aid of the remedy will always remain a moot question because our potencies are continually surprising us by doing the seemingly impossible, now aborting a dangerous case of capillary bronchitis, then extruding some foreign body, a piece of dead bone, etc. You can never definitely determine its power, but you should be able to realise when it is exhausted and its further application futile. In this connection allow me to call your attention to a wonderful attestation of this truth of homeopathic dynamics as applied to the sick. When the similimum has about exhausted its action and the patient, like a stream at low water mark, is beginning to slowly come back, then, if the friends unwisely become impatient and call in a materialist with his crude drugs, the end will come with a crash. One of my patients, a business man, desperately ill with dropsy, was slowly brought back by the indicated remedy and was up and at his work for many months. Following a serious business depression he again became very ill. This time he responded slowly but was showing progress, being up and about the house, when some relative, dissatisfied with his progress, called in an allopath. The third morning after this he dropped dead. I feel that this was probably due to the administration of digitalis in the crude form and that it probably would not have happened under the continued homeopathic remedy.
Again let me say that this system of therapeutics is the quickest, most gentle, the most reliable and the safest way to turn disorder into order and sickness into health.
PARKERSBURG, W. VA.
Born in Western Pennsylvania, he graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and subsequently Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. He moved to Parkersburg, W. Va., in 1888, practicing there, but also consulting worldwide. He gave lectures at the Pulte Medical College in Cincinnati and taught philosophy, materia medica, and repertory at the American Foundation for Homoeopathy Postgraduate School. Boger brought BÅ“nninghausen's Characteristics and Repertory into the English Language in 1905. His publications include :
Boenninghausen's Characteristics and Repertory
Boenninghausen's Antipsorics
Boger's Diphtheria, (The Homoeopathic Therapeutics of)
A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915
General Analysis with Card Index, 1931
Samarskite-A Proving
The Times Which Characterize the Appearance and Aggravation of the Symptoms and their Remedies