EDITORIAL NOTES AND COMMENTS



And thus we go on, watching the sufferers who cannot lie, this way or that, trying to discover the reasons why and the remedies which will bring relief. There are many of them,all deserving of study; the better we know them, the sooner can we relieve our patients. The peculiarities are numerous; for example,. there is Medorrhinum, whose cough is better when he lies flat on his abdomen and Psorinum, who cannot lie, unless his limbs are spread apart and away from his body, even his fingers must not be permitted to touch each other. Tis a strange world this, or shell we say,the people in it? We think so, for we cannot lie!.

Allan D. Sutherland
Dr. Sutherland graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia and was editor of the Homeopathic Recorder and the Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy.
Allan D. Sutherland was born in Northfield, Vermont in 1897, delivered by the local homeopathic physician. The son of a Canadian Episcopalian minister, his father had arrived there to lead the local parish five years earlier and met his mother, who was the daughter of the president of the University of Norwich. Four years after Allan’s birth, ministerial work lead the family first to North Carolina and then to Connecticut a few years afterward.
Starting in 1920, Sutherland began his premedical studies and a year later, he began his medical education at Hahnemann Medical School in Philadelphia.
Sutherland graduated in 1925 and went on to intern at both Children’s Homeopathic Hospital and St. Luke’s Homeopathic Hospital. He then was appointed the chief resident at Children’s. With the conclusion of his residency and 2 years of clinical experience under his belt, Sutherland opened his own practice in Philadelphia while retaining a position at Children’s in the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department.
In 1928, Sutherland decided to set up practice in Brattleboro.