Dr. Hahnemann is the father of Homoeopathy and he has suggested several modes of administering Homoeopathic Medicines. According to him all parts of our body which possess the sense of touch can receive the influence of medicines and can send the medicinal force to all other parts. Stomach, tongue, mouth, interior of nose, rectum, genitals, parts destitute of skin, wounded or ulcerated spots and even the external surface of the body are capable of receiving the influence of the medicine. Hahnemann has treated many acute and chronic diseases solely by means of OLFACTION with the most happy results. OLFACTION is possible even when the patient is destitute of the sense of smell.
Medicines given by the mouth or by OLFACTION will serve the purpose to our full satisfaction and hence the practice of rubbing in of any medicine or using ointments has been fully discarded by our Master. Dr. Hahnemann has no-where advised that medicine is to be injected into the skin or flesh with the help of an injecting needle. In the vast literature of Homoeopathy we never find any mention of Injection.
Besides this lack of precedent the very operation of Injection is painful and therefore distasteful to our patients. Injection is usually dreaded by the patients especially by the children who cry at the very sight of the doctor. This dread-inspiring act should be wholly discarded, especially by the followers of Hahnemann, It is not only a painful and dreadful operation but it also constitutes a danger to life. There are many sensitive patients who faint or die before the needle is withdrawn. Besides its money-making capacity it has nothing to recommend it to the profession.
Homoeopathic physicians commit unpardonable faults when they inject medicines, as this process is not sanctioned by any trustworthy authority. Doctors who write treatise on Homoeopathic Injections or chemists who prepare Homoeopathic injection remedies are no friends of Homoeopathy but formidable foes threatening to discredit or to destroy Homoeopathy which h as rendered eminent service to the human population of the world in a most gentle, harmless and peaceful way.
Such chemists or doctors deceive innocent patients and confuse sincere physicians. Able Homoeopaths who have thoroughly studied their subject and who have the rare skill to use the art will never adopt this foul method. On the other hand persons who have no sound knowledge of Homoeopathy, who can not or do not study Materia Medica and Organon, are likely to favour this mode of administering medicine.
Such unskilful Pseudo-homoeopaths may fall into this unlawful practice as they are devoid of all knowledge necessary for accurate prescribing. Homoeopathy requires honest search for knowledge and no love of indolence. Laborious physicians can find it an easy job but idle persons may find it most difficult. Therefore a homoeopath who adopts this method of administering medicine only exposes his ignorance and folly and deceives his clients.
Our brothers who have become misguided either for lack of knowledge or for greed of money are advised to discard this illegal practice and to disfavour it and to return to Hahnemannian Homoeopathy, which has for them, if diligently cultivated, immense possibilities.
Calcutta