Editorial THE PROBLEM OF SMALL – POX VACCINATION



(b) Second way by elevating the patient to that higher level of health which bestowes the utmost general immunity and the greatest power of recuperation. This is accomplished as a matter of course through chronic treatment. The action of this constitutional remedy (not by any means the same for everybody) is to cure morbid tendencies, to build resistive powers, to bestow power of recovery, and thus to promote the highest general immunity.

The best public health is the sum total of individual healths. Health is not merely a state of being. It is power. Health is power to resist, power to recover, power to adapt life to conditions without fear, the power to liver a full life in the world. The aim of Homoeopathy is to build that power.

The constitutional remedy is the best protection not only against small – pox; therefore, it is the higher level of health to which Homoeopathy can lift its patients. “The right constitutional remedy is worth as an immuniser than all the specific Decoctions that could be packed in a ship.”

It is not vaccination at all but can be called the ideal and internal vaccination.

So long Homoeopathy has never been given a chance to be used for public health purposes by any Government of any country. It would have immunised people against all sorts of epidemic diseases and would have avoided all the ill – effects, immediate and remote, from crude processes of vaccination and inoculation as they are practised now.

N C Das
N C Das
Calcutta