THE ULTIMATE INFINITESIMAL


This report is worthy of the most serious consideration of the thoughtful physician. If there be a law of cure which is universal, and applicable as any other law of nature, surely we are infinitely glad to know it. In fifty years of practice I have proved it thousands of times, and it has never failed me. That I have failed many times, goes without saying. I did not take the case perfectly.


Scientists are telling us that nothing exists but the electron. I purpose in this paper to upset that postulate, and to do what I can to instigate investigations that will lead into the very heart of the arcanum of Nature. I shall introduce to the scientific world an infinitesimal which could ride by billions upon the back of an electron. We are informed that fifteen trillions of electrons in contact and in a straight line would measure but an inch and a half in length.

If a box one inch and a half square were filled with electrons and they were allowed to escape at the rate of one millions per second, it would require more than six million years for the box to become emptied of the electrons. The mind of man cannot grasp the significance of these figures any more than it can grasp the idea of eternity or infinity, and I only mention them to suggest some conception of the infinitesimal beside which the electron is as Mount Shasta compared to an ant-hill. It cannot be brought within the visual range of man, yet its existence is one of the most demonstrable of scientific facts.

The following excerpt is from a paper which I published in the Pacific Coast Journal of Homoeopathy, August, 1922:

“Samuel Hahnemann formulated the law known as similia similibus curantur, or likes cures like. He gave us at the same time what we call drug potentiation. Drug potentizing is done in accordance with two methods or scales, the decimal and the centesimal. One drop of liquid is mixed with nine drops of distilled water and well shaken. (If the drug or substance be insoluble it is triturated with sugar of milk, the same proportions being maintained), and so we continue through the succeeding potencies, each potency containing one tenth as much of the original drug as the one preceding it.

We mark the potencies made by this scale 1x, 2x, 3x, etc. But let us use common fractions to represent the different potencies; as 1/10 stands for the first potency; 1/100, the second; 1/1000, the third; etc. It will be noticed that each succeeding potency adds another naught to its denominator. We will now potentize to the thirtieth by the decimal scale as one naught goes to each potency, the denominator of the thirtieth will have for its denominator the figure one, followed by thirty naughts; or the one millionth of the drug in a drop of the thirtieth potency. We use alcohol after the third potency.

“To bring this a little nearer our range of comprehension, let us fill tanks of ten thousand gallons capacity with the nonillion drop. One of the tanks will contain sixty-one million, four hundred and forty thousand drops. One nonillion drops will fill more than sixteen septillions of tanks of the capacity mentioned. There is not enough water on the earth to fill them. And one drop of drug in this mighty menstrum”.

The fraction which represents the two hundredth potency contains three hundred and seventy naughts in its denominator. (After the thirtieth we use the centesimal scale, adding two naughts to the denominator of each potency.) Our drop of drug is now hopelessly lost in a sea that will fill the orbit of the earth about the sun. The menstrum of the one thousandth potency will fill the orbit of the planet Uranus, situated one billion, seven hundred and fifty millions of miles from the sun.

I know that the scientist will cry, “Chapman is crazy! Does he dare tell us that there is the slightest therapeutic property in these unthinkable dilutions?” I admit that I am giving the reader something more than a “homoeopathic dose” to swallow; but the old shaff has been threshed over so often, getting us nowhere, that I have come at the scientist big end first.

I confess that a more preposterous proposition could not be presented to the mind of a rational being. It cannot be accepted

by the scientist without the most irrefragible proofs. And we are here with the proofs!.

Let us not stop among the crudities of the material. We are seeking the ultimate infinitesimal and the end is not yet. The electron has long since dropped out of the race, having forever lost its reputation as being the only thing in existence. We will now launch upon a sea that reaches the confines of the universe-if such confines there be. Let us consider the one hundred thousandth potency. Here is a sea which can submerge and “bind the sweet influences of Pleiades.” If it can be proved that one drop of this boundless sea can cure a case which has baffled the best efforts of the most advanced medical scientists in the world, what are we to say or think?

All the developments of modern science pale into utter insignificance before this thing, if it can be proved to be founded in truth. It is so pregnant with incalculable good to the race, that I can do nothing less than fall upon my face and worship the God of Creation! For there is not a pathological condition which is not amenable to quick and permanent cure by the indicated potentiated drug. I except those cases, of course, which have been spoiled by surgery, or have not the vitality to respond to the action of the indicated drug. Even in these cases that are hopeless, euthanasia follows the administration of the indicated drug, such as is never seen in the use of opiates, etc.

The following cases will illustrate.

Case 1. A four-year old girl, rachitic. The long bones all semi-curved; teeth decayed as fast as erupted; fontanelles have never closed, whole top of head membranous, chicken-breasted to a marked degree. The limbs were shriveled and undeveloped, the abdomen large and protuberant. Profuse sweating of the head, especially when sleep. She has always been a “sour baby,” even her stools having a sour odor. Indigestion and diarrhoea.

This patient has been in the hands of numerous physicians, one and all of whom had prescribed lime water and other alkaline preparations, without benefit. The symptoms pointed unerringly to but just one remedy. The trouble was that the child could not assimilate the salts of lime, and where could be the use of pouring into its stomach lime water, and other things? Here was a deep seated dyscrasia which would yield to nothing but the indicated potentiated drug, which was Calcarea carbonica, or the carbonate of lime. This was given in the 200th potency. The result was immediate, and in a few months she was in blooming health.

One of my competitors from whose hands she came to me, remarked that “Chapman is a lucky dog. Just as my medicine began to act she came into his hands.” I certainly was in luck to be sufficiently acquainted with the symptomatology of Calcarea carbonica to see its perfect picture in this case.

I am aware that “on swallow does not make a summer,” and that while the above is suggestive, yet it cannot be accepted by the scientist as final. But listen. About two years later the same mother brought to me a sister of this patient, aged three years. The symptoms were identical with those already narrated, and the administration of Calcarea carbonica, 200th was followed by the most gratifying results. Chapman was again lucky!.

A word of caution: Calcarea carbonica is not by any means the only remedy for rickets. There is a long list of them from which to choose (and the same is true of any other disease), any one of which will cure rickets where the symptoms are identical with those found in its proving, but not under any other circumstances.

Case 2. A woman brought her husband to my office. Two months previously he had sustained a fall upon the back of the head which rendered him unconscious for forty-eight hours. His general health was resorted so that he ate and slept well, and got around as usual; but from being a very energetic man, he no;w could not make up his mind to perform even the most ordinary duties of life. Formerly he was one of the heartiest and best natured of good fellows; now he walked in deepest gloom and hopelessness. The sexual function was completely suspended.

For this symptom picture he received Onosmodium virginianicum, one hundred thousandth potency, a single dose. Two days later he entered my office with the old-time briskness, gave me a hearty handshake and said, “Im all right now, Doctor, and am going to work in the morning”.

Two weeks later his wife pushed him into the office again. He was in exactly the same condition as at the first visit. Another dose of the same remedy in the same potency was given. Again he reported himself as “all right.” But at the end of two weeks another relapse occurred. I now gave him what I should have done at the first visit, viz.: six powders of the Onosmodium, same potency, one to be taken each night at bedtime. The result was a perfect cure.

This report is worthy of the most serious consideration of the thoughtful physician. If there be a law of cure which is universal, and applicable as any other law of nature, surely we are infinitely glad to know it. In fifty years of practice I have proved it thousands of times, and it has never failed me. That I have failed many times, goes without saying. I did not take the case perfectly. Or the fault may have been in the preparation of the drug used. And our materia medica, I regret to say, is not yet what it should be.

S E Chapman