(2) Websters and Goulds Dictionary.
(3) See (1).
(4) a.Royal, A.Handy Book of Reference,pages 35 and 36.
b.Diagnosis as Related to the selection of the Indicated remedy. Transaction A.I.,H. 1912.
(5) See (4).
(6) See (1).
(7) Royal A.,handy Book of References, pages 56-66 and 94-
96.
(8) Royal,m A. Handy Book of reference, pages 92-94.
(9) Royal, A Handy Book of reference, page 85.
(10) Hahnemanns Organic.
(11) Royal, A Handy Book of Reference, 31 to 36.
(12) The Three Essentials of a symptom.
Medical Century, 1902.
(13) a.U.H.Renner in Midwest Homoeopathic News Journal, December 1929.
b.Royal., A Handy Book of Reference, page 51.
(14) Royal, A Handy Book of Reference, page 102.
(15) Royal, A Handy Book of Reference, pages 82 to 85.
DES MOINES, IOWA.
DISCUSSION.
CHAIRMAN WAFFENSMITH;This is a very interesting paper by a man who is wise in the wisdom of practice and the experience of teaching.
DR.J.W.KRISHBAUM;I have attended the meetings of this Society some often the word has become more or less obnoxious to me. I wondered last year in Canada whether we would become more or less obnoxious to me. I wondered last function; whether we would ever have any children to stir us up at night and let us exercise our limbs and our vocal chords; whether we would ever have any children who would ask us for butter-bread with a thick spread of jam on it; whether we would ever have any youths to laugh in a cynical way at our ignorance, firm in the believe that after a few years they would far surpass the old fogies; to say nothing of having young men and young women who might come along and take the mantle from our shoulders and carry on.
Personally, in medicine my motto has been patterned after a good man of whom some of you have heard, St.Paul, who said, :”I press onward to the mark”. He ever claimed that he was pure or had reached the mark. And I have heard so much of “purity” and “pure homoeopathy” that I have come to the conclusion that we must drop it,take in new blood,teach them, train them and let them back-slide. But take them back again. Pat them on the shoulder and tell them to do better. There is nothing so dampening to a young man as to turn your shoulder on him and say,”You are not a homoeopath.” How many of you here are pure?.
DR.A.PULFORD;We had at our office a case of vesicular erysipelas that had defined all methods of treatment. You have the pathological stage. Now, what is the remedy? Late we learned that he had had a yellow, water stool., a semi-pathological state. he had taken one dose of medicine and was promptly cured. What is your remedy? You have your pathological and semi- pathological states., He said, “Doctor,whenever I eat o drink that watery stool comes out like a shot”. Where is your pathology in that?.
DR.C.M.Boger: There some things I would like to say in connection with this paper.
This Society was organized by Dr.Lippe and Dr.Guernsey organized to keep alive the homoeopathy of Hahnemann because it was felt that the Institute was black sliding, to use the expression that Dr.Krichbaum just employed. We have been engaged mostly in keeping the homoeopathy of Hahnemann alive. If there had been no I.H.A., homoeopathy today would be ahead. The Institute,m so far as homoeopathy of a hahnemann alive. If there had been no I.H.A., Homoeopathy today would be dead. The Institute, so far as homoeopathy is concerned, is about four- fifths dead now. the ordinary medical education-by that I mean in all school is stamped alike. They are all standardized, every one. If you want to get away from standardization. , if you want to get away from standardization, if you want individuality, you have to each individuality , you have to instruct individually.
Now I come to the other point. We have been a failure as missionaries. We have been so much engaged in keeping ourselves alive that we have forgotten that there is such a thing as missionary zeal.
At Atlantic City after the great trouble we had a Watch Hill there were only seven members present. I was among the seven. Dr.Water James and Dr.T.J.Clark of New York water there. They have both passed on. At that time we, as an infant,almost breathed our last, because of scandal.
When we had the other trouble with Swan and osteopathy. the almost did something to us,gave us diphtheria, or something, but we got through with that. And here we are today facing the electronic treatment. That is the coming storm on the horizon and we will have to dispose of the shortly. But homoeopathy is the only solid ground and the only solid basis upon which we have to stand.
The criticism that havent been much as missionaries is probably deserved, but were are making strong effort on boston to overcome that, and I hope we will succeed if we succeed it will be because this Society stands have to get Homoeopathic instruction and we have been put through in schools. They havent been standardized. that is what is the matter.
A few years ago the United States government tried to make an experiment of feeling the solidities on cubes of prepared food. In a few weeks the solidities were hardly able to stand. That is what is the matter with the medical profession today. they have been fed on standardized food so long that the medical profession is hardly able to stand.
Looks at the assaults on the profession today we people who are not doctors. Think of that. A large part of the profession is held in open derision today. If we are going going to amount to anything we have to stand by our colors, and I think the school in Boston is one of the best means of doing that.
We have been few in numbers many times. We have had large meetings and we have had small meetings,but the closer to keep to Hahnemanns law and what Hahnemann told us the more nearly we will he presented.
Dr.H.A ROBERTS;In the possession of he I.H.A.we have kept a clear and shining light of the truths that Hahnemann gave us us. there is no question about that. there is a necessity and a great necessity, and a great necessity, for the missionary spirit to go on and promulgate this and carry it forward, and I think the I.H.A. has taken steps that are particularly apropos in this direction.
Take, for instance,the journal that we are publishing. Look back the time when we took cover that journal and look at it today. It can hardly be recognized as the same sheet. it has improved very much it us teaching good homoeopathy. You can call it “pure” if you wish. It is Hahnemannian homoeopathy as exemplified by many if the masters who are gone, as exemplified by some of the masters who are still living, and there are a good many.
I want to make a suggestion in connection with the Boston Post-Graduate School which is teaching the Hahnemannian ideals of Homoeopathy. We dont pretend to teach anything except homoeopathy as its individual who is seeing to learn. How many of the young have improved in Homoeopathy in the last twenty-give years? Would you recognize yourself back twenty-five years ago? This leads me to the though I an trying to carry on. I have six or seven your men with whom, I am in constant touch, writing to them, trying to direct then in to homoeopathy, and they are becoming apt students. Sooner or later they will go to the Boston Post-Graduate School. You would be surprised at the progress that some of those young men are making under direction as t what books to get, what books to study, how to study and how to help trying cases.
That is the only way we can do it. If every one of our two hundred and six members in this Association would take some young man, just one,and guide him, in five years we would have bigger membership.
DR.J.M.GREEN: On of the things we ought to do is discover where the ignorance of homoeopathy lies,both in other fields of medicine and among the laity. I do believe that ignorance is homoeopathys greatest enemy at the present time. If we would find our what our neighbors are thinking about and then try to meet that need we would recuperate our own ranks at a faster rate, and we would do away with the idea of being called “pure? or ?exclusive” faster than we have been able to do in the last ten or fifteen years.
DR.G.ROYAL:I want to try to answer some of the points that have been raised and to elucidate a little more some of my own statements.
Dr.Green asked three very prominent, very pertinent questions: What doe the laity thin of us? I dont thin I need to answer that. What does the l;city think of us in Des Moines or in lows or in Ohio or in Oregon today? By us I mean all homoeopaths, more necessarily this society, but I will include you, and you may answer the question.
Now, then why do they think w3hat they do of us.? Dr.green has said. I am going to tourist that subject next Wednesday. Instead of referring has said. I am going to treat that subject next wednesday. Instead of referring to its as ignorance we are going to call it misconception of Homoeopathy. And where doe the public get its misconception? Through the public press, through the pamphlet, through the magazine, through the journals, through this journal.
