What We Must Not Do In Homoeopathy – 2



The second process is applied by the Unicists themselves who always look for an aggravation. It is Doctoress M. Tylor of London who first used this method which has been taken up by Dr. Renard in France. This process consists in fractioning the high dilution. Instead of giving 200 once, it is broken up into 3 parts and is applied every three hours, i.e. to say the complete dose is taken in three hours and in three times. It is a case of medicinal excitation. The medicine will cause diminution of its intensity by antidoting itself.

A third process is that which I practice myself. I have often noticed that when a medicine is applied for a long time before or after the meals it acts much more deeply but it may cause some aggravations if the patient is very sensitive. Therefore apply a medicine in course of a meal in hyper-sensitive patients. There will manifestly have an amelioration. This process is used by the doctors of the thermal stations.

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.