Editorial Notes & Comments

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This was forcibly borne in upon us not so long ago. A middle aged woman, single, whom we had treated over a long period of months, presented herself after an absence of several years – for observation. Originally a neurasthenic, neurotic in the highest degree, she had presented all the usual and unusual manifestations of this condition, much to our discomfiture and perplexity. No doubt we had often wished her miles away from the office sanctum – in fact, we are quite sure that we did – still, we were obliged to keep on and prescribe to the very best of our feeble ability, until we finally saw her no more.

Judge of our surprise then when her reappearance presented a plump, well nourished and rounded woman in the best of health, bereft of all her old time neurotic vagaries. Here then was a patient in whom no pathology could ever be found, but who had been the rounds of German health resorts, had been bathed inside and out with Europes most potent mineral waters, who had gone through elaborate “Luftkurs” and “Molkenkurs,” and incidentally, had been milked of numerous American dollars, all to no purpose.

Geheimrat This and Oberstabsartz That had held awe – inspiring conclave over her, and professors of the universities had looked wise and done their best – or worst. So it remained for the simple Hahnemannian method, by taking account of what the patient thought she had, to cure this tedious and obstinate case. It is all too simple for the Her professor to accept; it lacks the theatrical; the dramatic beating of the medical tom – toms is absent; the press agent is missing; the skillful newspaper write – up is nowhere to be found; but the poor, deluded, simple patient gets well at last, at the hands of a trusting disciple of homoeopathy. Really it is all too simple – it is to laugh.

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Dr Rudolph Frederick RABE (1872-1952)
American Homeopathy Doctor.
Rabe graduated from the New York Homeopathic Medical College and trained under Timothy Field Allen and William Tod Helmuth.

Rabe was President of the International Hahnemannian Association, editor in chief of the Homeopathic Recorder, and he wrote Medical Therapeutics for daily reference. Rabe was Dean and Professor of Homeopathic Therapeutics at the New York Homeopathic Medical College.
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