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To the editor of the Homoeopathic Recorder:
STATUS OF HOMOEOPATHY IN NORWAY-THE FIRST HOMOEOPATHIC CLINIC.
Homoeopathy is not old in Norway. There are single persons here and there who had some Homoeopathic practice on the last twenty years,but not enough to awaken the public and the allopathies to the fact that homoeopathy was coming. The late homoeopath, O.M., ohm, and the late naturopath, O Olvik, are the two most well know of these pioneers above mentioned.
The city of Trondhejem Nidaros (where a great exhibition is being held this summer) is the center of Homoeopathy in Norway. Here is the medical center, Skandinavisk Homoeopatisk Central officine (H.Hoeivagg) and a well known homoeopathic practitioner, Einar L:arsen,who has the reputation as a clever homoeopath also lives in this city.
In Bergen, I started Bergens Homoeopathy like Institute two years ago. Here also is the single lay society, the Bergen Hom. forening,which publishes the little journal Ars Ciramdi. Homoeopathy is written about almost every week now in the different newspapers. This is on account of the introduction of the Koch Cancer Antitoxin in Norway. This remedy has been analyzed at the university and the result shows that it seems to be a homoeopathic potency of an unknown substance. The therapeutic results obtained with it are good,and now the medical test on this remedy shall be made. I have just given him a report of three cases with sure cancer diagnosis.
The well known German him a report of threes cases with sure cancer diagnosis. The well known German homoeopaths and cancer specialists, Emil Schlegel and his son,. Dr.Oswald Schlegel inn Tubinbgenb, are two of the European homoeopaths who are fighting for this excellent remedy against cancer in Europe. In my cancer therapy I antitoxin as an almost sure,quite harmless, and most likely a homoeopathic product.
That Homoeopathy now has become so well known and is so often dealt with in the press comes from many discourses on cancer and Homoeopathy, during which I always show pictures of Greater Hahnemann and other Homoeopathic hospitals, not American, English, German and Canadian. the interest in Homoeopathy is greatly increasing and as a result the Bergen Homoeopatisk Forening has elected committee to start working for a small homoeopathic clinic.
This will eventually be the first one in Norway and it will be of great importance for the future work in our country. We have to seek help throughout the world and we hoped that some American Homoeopaths will help us. In those days we are sending out our petition to all parts of the country. the question is now; Shall Norway get its Homoeopathic hospital or not?-OLAV FASTAD.
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.