Opotherapy



We have not the right as homoeopaths to neglect the immense development of opotherapy, a science which is in its primary stage. We should follow step by step with the progress realised in the field of official medicine, so as to endow immediately homoeopathy with new arms. After the total extracts, one should now use the hormones and all the active principles recently isolated. Their pathogenesis is simple they may be analysed by all the symptoms of hyper or hypofunction which are described in relation to each gland.

As regards the repetition of doses, it seems that the rules for the use of the use of the ground remedies are not applicable here and one may be brought to repeat even frequently the high dilutions of the endocrinal extracts.

Whatever may be the duration and the intensity of the duration of the therapeutic effects of the glandular products, their action was never as deep as that of our constitutional remedies and the remedies of temperament of which the gland extracts are only satellites and complementaries, taking an intermediary place between these medicines and the drainage remedies.

Mauritius Fortier-Bernoville
Mauritius (Maurice) Fortier Bernoville 1896 – 1939 MD was a French orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become the Chief editor of L’Homeopathie Moderne (founded in 1932; ceased publication in 1940), one of the founders of the Laboratoire Homeopathiques Modernes, and the founder of the Institut National Homeopathique Francais.

Bernoville was a major lecturer in homeopathy, and he was active in Liga Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis, and a founder of the le Syndicat national des médecins homœopathes français in 1932, and a member of the French Society of Homeopathy, and the Society of Homeopathy in the Rhone.

Fortier-Bernoville wrote several books, including Une etude sur Phosphorus (1930), L'Homoeopathie en Medecine Infantile (1931), his best known Comment guerir par l'Homoeopathie (1929, 1937), and an interesting work on iridology, Introduction a l'etude de l'Iridologie (1932).

With Louis-Alcime Rousseau, he wrote several booklets, including Diseases of Respiratory and Digestive Systems of Children, Diabetes Mellitus, Chronic Rheumatism, treatment of hay fever (1929), The importance of chemistry and toxicology in the indications of Phosphorus (1931), and Homeopathic Medicine for Children (1931). He also wrote several short pamphlets, including What We Must Not Do in Homoeopathy, which discusses the logistics of drainage and how to avoid aggravations.

He was an opponent of Kentian homeopathy and a proponent of drainage and artificial phylectenular autotherapy as well.