If good men are encouraged to take to the study of these sciences there is no reason why we should not produce men as efficient as any in allopathy. As an allopath I can say, give me a ward in a hospital with the same facilities that you give your allopathic physicians and I shall show you far better results in the healing of the sick with homoeopathy than any allopathic physician can with allopathy. As homoeopaths we have to serve with missionary zeal. We can never know too much of our science and nothing can be too good where human life is concerned.
Actually I have no right to speak to you about the defects and shortcomings of homoeopathy since I am an allopath. The trouble in India is that we are likely to become enthusiastic sectarians and dogmatists. That man is a scientist who recognises the limitation of his science. Let us be scientists and not only blind followers of Hahnemannian teachings. The greatness of Homoeopathy lies in its simple law of cure, Similia Similibus Curantur. And yet in this great simplicity lies the greatest danger because it is not always applicable though apparently indicated. The more I study it the more I am convinced that Homoeopathy and Ayurveda have very much in common.
They are the only two sciences that have studied constitutions and the nature of chronic diseases. I would urge you to cooperate with the Ayurveda because someday India may find that a synthesis of Ayurveda and Homoeopathy would be the only means to meet the problems of mass medical aid in India. It does not mean that allopathy is to be discarded. On the contrary I consider the allopath as a specialist whose aid will be needed in specific cases such as surgery, preventive medicine, gynaecology, radiology etc.
But that is about 13 p.c. of all medical activity. There is much I would like to tell you, but that which I would like to discuss is, or should be, more the concern of Governments, i.e. if they wish to listen to it and learn something new. FINALLY: Before I close, let me thank you all for having listened so patiently to what I have had the honour to place before you, and for the honour you have done an allopath like myself in allowing him to address you. And I feel that I cannot do better than close with the words of the great economist WADIA who said:.
“No policy of unthinking imitation nor any tinkering with details will avail. The lines along which a solution of our problems lies may not lead us straight to our goal. The process of human evolution is a process of trial and experiment through which we grope our way over the stepping stones of our failure and errors. But it is better to venture stones of our failures and errors. But it is better to venture forth on the strength of a larger faith than grovel in the dust along trodden paths wind and wind in a planless world.” And this applies so much to the India of today seeking a new way out of our of her ancient miseries.
