When I read that a group of symptoms which I recognized as cataract were given Causticum 1M and that the entire group disappeared in less than forty-eight hours,m I simply shake my head. From my viewpoint such results are absolute impossibilities, especially is this true of pathological conditions. With patients suffering from non-structural diseases of brain or nerves such results are often obtained with the indicated remedy and also without it. I have often given a patient a good fatherly talk and a vial of Place to and secured the desired result in less than a day.So have many others. Yet the publishing of such remarkable results words upon the incredulity of the reasoning,thinking riders and prevents their accepting, as true, anything we Homoeopaths say or write.
DOSE (7).
My views on the size and repetition of the dose have been stated so often that you are all familiar with them. Therefore, I will merely re-state them and not go into a detailed explanation.
F.the size of the dose should be just large enough to produce the desired results. b. The repetition of the dose, i.e.m, whether you should repeat at all, or the time intervening between the repetition,if you do repeat,depends altogether upon the make-up and condition of the patient-in other words what you expect your remedy to do. The following rules have served me fairly.
Ist. If the group of symptoms found in your patients are the counterpart of a group found in a proving give the same remedy in the dose or does as produced the symptoms on the prover.
2nd. Should the case be an acute, serious one, like convulsions or serious hemorrhages, repeat often.
3rd. Should your case be a chronic one, give the single dose and wait a reasonable length of time before repeating or changing.
POTENCY (8).
My views on this important point have also often been given.
They are:
1st. If you find that a certain potency produced a group of symptoms similar to those found in your patient give the same potency.
If not, use the higher potencies for highly sensitive,emotional neurotic patients, and the lower for the dull, lifeless, sluggish one. We should always remember, however,that all rules have exceptions.
CAUSES (9).
a.The acquiring of a comprehensive perfect knowledge of the causes which produce a symptom or group of symptoms is a very difficult task. As a consequence there are the end products of disease; while still others pretend to believe that thee are no such things as disease producing germs. We also have different view of vaccines, toxins,psora, syphilis, and tuberculosis.
b.Whatever our opinion as to what the cause are, all followers of the master know that he recognized such entities and know that Hahnemann made a definite statement that they should be removed if possible. (10).
SYMPTOMS.
All of us will probably agree that a symptom is a manifestation of disease, even if some prefer some symptom of the word disease. But when it comes to the classification of symptoms (11( oh my! oh my! The following are a few: objective, subjective, mixed, rational, general, explainable and non- explainable,keynote, strange,particular, singular, common , uncommon, characteristic, toxicological, pathological, physiological, dynamic, mental, pathogenic,basic and determinative., I think determinative is the baby of the family and that Prof.
Earth Boericke is its father. the most unfortunate thing about this subject is that many men have changed not only their conception but their opinions (views) on many of the classifications. Take as an illustration “characteristic”. Years ago that symptoms was one which could be found in the provings of only one drug, and hence under one remedy. H.C. Allen was sitting in my office one day and I asked him to name one such symptoms. He did. I then took down T.F.Allens symptom REgister, Gentrys Concordance, and the Cyclopedia of Drug pathogenesy and handed them to B.C.Allen. Much to his disappointment he found the same symptom under three other remedies. Today I use characteristic and determinative as synonyms.
C.We need waste to time on the essentials (12) of symptoms, location,modalities and sensations were given by Hahnemann, Lippe, Hering and all the way down to Garth Boericke.
d.Authorities for securing (proving), arranging,and ranking symptoms are numerous and vary according to how many have been superintendents of drug provings.
REMEDIES.
I am sure that we will agree that we apparently disagree as to how our remedies act and react (13); as to the fact that some,though not all, have a primary and secondary action; that these two action play an important part in the selection,not only of the remedy,but also of the dose and potency;that our remedies may be either antidotal, complementary, inimical, or supplemental one to another; as to the importance which the elective affinity of remedies holds to diagnosis and prognosis; and finally as to the manner of selecting and administering the indicated remedy.
as my time is limit I will simply refer you to the bibliography as proof of the above statements, feeling sure that a study of the authorities named therein will greatly reduce the number not only old apparent but real viewpoints, and hence views.
AUXILIARY TREATMENT
While speaking on one phase of the subject, viz., palliation, last year at Montreal I saw very plainly on the faces of many of you that you disagreed most radically with my views. Therefore, I expressed those views, including palliation (14), more extensively under the head of auxiliary treatment in my last book. The subject forms a part of the chapter on How to Select and Administer the Indicated Remedy. Next to preparing the channels (15) and regulating the diet I consider palliation the most important factor in the successful practice of homoeopathy. By palliation, however, I do not confine myself to the use of opium in its various forms or any other anodyne.
Now to our two objectives: 1st. How to increase the number of men. I am but a babe in this family-eight days less than a year old.
This association is altogether too small to do the work it ought to do. The reason for this is that we are too exclusive. I belong to the exclusive bodies. To become a member of either you must have certain qualifications. the membership of one is you must have certain qualifications. The membership of one is less than fifty and of the other less than one hundred. The waiting list of each is a long one-waiting and i presume hoping, some of us will die soon enough to let them come in. Are any except the members benefited by these bodies? Why no. They were organized for the sole benefit and the enjoyment of its members.
I am also a member of another association,whose membership is a thousand times larger than the former. That body is organized for the purpose of benefitting mankind in general. It has members in all parts of the world. Which of the two do the members of the I.H.A. wish to emulate? Which of the two does the I.H.A. really simulate? This body has members in all parts of the world. If I understand it correctly our objective is to extend the blessings of homoeopathy to all mankind. We should be the “l;title leaven which leaveth the whole lump.” we should recognize the fact that the flour and yeast must come in close contact with each other so that the lump” my spread-enlarge the proper size and be of suitable quality to make it appetizing and nourishing bread.
The membership of this body should be increased one hundred fold. How can this be done? A very pertinent question but an extremely difficult on to answer. However, I will make a few suggestions for others to add to or criticize.
Ist. Broaden our standard of admission. From what I have heard and read there will be different views on that suggestion.
2nd. Be charitable of each others views. It may be possible that some of those who differ from us many see some “phenomenon” which we do not; or have had some experiences which we have not.
3rd. It is easier to substitute correct four erroneous view so a member than of one who is not. Although I had often been invited by H.C.Allen, Boger, Clarke, Close,Dienst and others to become a member I felt a good deal as Sloan said he did about it.
However, now that I am in and have met and exchanged views with many more of you I have found that we are all humans.
4th.Become members of an work in other societies. I have often said that every physician should belong to four medical societies, i.e. local, state, national,and international,and I am practicing what I preach.
I have also advocated that these four societies should be inner-related so that each could do his part in all and thus secure the greatest good at the last expense.
How to decrease the number of views? The answer to this question has already been answered in the suggestions, and may be summed up as followers: Meet each other, shake hands,look each other in the eyes and talk things over frankly and freely.
P.S.As a postscript always attracts more interest and receives more attention and more though than the body of the tetter, I will make one more suggestion, viz., but Crabbs Textbook on Synonyms and Snellings Jahrs New Manual of Homoeopathic Practice, and use them when reading the Recorder or other homoeopathic literature.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
(1) Homoeopathic Recorder from June 1929 to June 1930.
