MIRACLES WITH HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINE



As a student I took care of an “old school” doctors practice for two weeks during his vacation. He was a graduate of Yale and a neighbor of mine. When he asked me to help him out I told him I would have to rely on my “sugar powders” and he said, “I expect you to”.

Among the patients was a young lad I judged to be about ten years of age who came in the drug store asking for something for pink eye, with classic symptoms calling for Belladonna, and I gave him a dose of the 50M (Skinners potency, I believe it was), on his tongue, and several more doses in powder form to be taken half an hour apart. In less than an hour he was back again with the two remaining powders and said, “My mother said, “What kind of a fool doctor are you giving medicine on my tongue for pink eye?” He demanded that I should give him some medicine for his eye, not his tongue.

I replied, “Son, do you remember that when you first came the light hurt your eyes and they were watering so that you held a handkerchief to them? In fact you could hardly see out of them, and now you come back and have been reading that magazine on the counter?” “Why, yes,” he said laughing, “they feel much better”. Then I explained that the medicine was for his eyes and that it worked through the blood, and incorrect statement, but even doctors cant understand how medicines work through the channel of nerves, much less the laity, so I sometimes use their own language and just say “through the blood”, It raises no issue and saves talk.

My daughter was suffering from a cold; finally after more than a day of sneezing and fluent discharge of the nose she said, “Daddy, why dont you give me something for my cold?” Because we have no medicine for colds, but if you have any symptoms tell me and then perhaps I can give you the remedy.” “Well, my throat is terribly dry and the teeth on my left side ache.” I gave her one dose of my favorite potency of Lachesis (200 B. & T.). The next morning she exclaimed in rapture, “Daddy, my cold is entirely gone; why did you not give me that medicine two days ago?” I answered, “Why did you not give me your symptoms two days ago?”

For two years she had been under the influence of Natrum mur., twice going through the series from 200 to CM. This was her first call for an acute remedy, and Lachesis was indicated. Will you pardon me for saying that she is a B.A. graduate from Rice Institute with honors in history at 19, selected as one of the prettiest five girls in college-another miracle of homoeopathy; health, beauty, brawn and brain. Health makes for beauty. And a healthy brain functions. For three successive nights one of my children suffered from a nagging toothache. I first gave him Aconite 200 without much relief, but the child finally dozed off to sleep.

Next night the pain returned. I then gave him Cham. 1M as he was rather cross and irritable, and for the second time he again dozed off to sleep after an hour of the grumbling tooth. “Daddy, you must take this child to the dentist tomorrow.” “But he saw the dentist just two weeks ago”, I replied. The third night he was worse than ever. Lower left bicuspid, better from warmth; worse early part of the night. Why, Mercurius iodatus ruber, of course; and in five minutes he was asleep with an end to his ache.

Mrs. E. called me to her residence where I found her in great distress and humility. “Doctor, I have been suffering now for three days and I can stand it no longer, so I sent for you. Can you give me some morphine to put me to sleep?” “Perhaps you wont need morphine. Tell me your troubles”, I said, “I have a large abscess that feels as large as an egg” (on what I noted as the left labia majora). “And oh! how it pains! It even hurts my left thigh and left arm.” She received a dose of Lachesis 200 and in perhaps a minute she said, “Dr. Schwartz, do you think your medicine could work this quickly?” “Why, what makes you ask?” I replied. “My arm and leg are easy and I dont suffer any more.” It was amusing to see her bewildered expression.

So I left her, saying that she would need no more medicine, but that if the abscess did not break by morning I would lance it. She told me the following day that the abscess broke within an hour. With that experience with Lachesis for abscess I was ready for another Lachesis patient suffering from abscess of the lower part of the left breast that was terribly sensitive, blue and accompanied with severe lumbar backache which gave her no peace for nearly a week of suffering. So they brought her to Houston, a distance of sixty miles, for treatment. I gave her Lachesis 200, one dose, with instructions to call me if she got worse. I received no call that night but the next morning she came to my office all smiles- and no more backache. The abscess broke about two hours after the Lachesis was administered. I am glad that I have another lance besides Silica.

I do not agree that “a miracle is a violation of all the laws of Nature”. I agree with the dictionary view that a miracle is “something wonderful; anything which excites wonder, surprise, astonishment; a marvel”. Foods perform miracles. Homoeopathic medicines work miracles; and I believe (after much research through Swendenborg; psychology; Hindoo philosophy first hand through the medium of highly developed Yogi teachers; and the science of the emotions by Bhagavan Das; and the Holy Bible) and I am satisfied that Christ was right when He said that “even greater things than these shall ye do”.

How? By treatment on the Spirit plane of mans trinity. That does not include hypnotism and hysteria. It does not mean Christian Science nor Unity, but by a special science of occult development, i.e., development by scientific procedure of the hidden, latent forces inherent in all of us. The centre is, of course, in the brain, but it has its correspondence in the endocrine glands. The Holy Bible is a scientific text-book on the physical, mental and moral regeneration of the whole race. I am of the opinion there is enough literature extant to outline a course of study and training to enable the doctor to so build up and develop himself that he can within himself generate healing powers as Christ said he could. This truth has, almost, made a Christian out of me-with a few falls, and some hurdles yet to take.

As yet, not all sickness can be cured by homoeopathy instantly. The time required to cure depends on the duration of illness. Chronic cases usually take from two to five years, if curable. That depends on heredity, environment, vitality and degree of tissue change. To cure I mean taking the chronic case backward through its present life history; bringing back the old symptoms in orderly form, the original symptoms being the last ones to again come into view, and therefore the last ones to respond to the remedy. For you cannot get the spoiled potatoes out of the bottom of the barrel until you take off the top first layer, then the second layer, and then the third layer; and so on down to the bottom layer of the barrel.

There are many diseases that cannot be cured instantly. Symptoms that come on suddenly can be cured suddenly. Cramp conditions, spasm, sudden pains, vaso-motor disturbances, all respond instantly to the similimum. Typhoid can usually be aborted in ten days; intermittents in from twelve to twenty-four or forty-eight hours; diphtheria within twenty-four hours, etc. That does not imply that it takes that long for relief. Relief is a matter of minutes usually in all sickness, providing the right remedy has been administered and in suitable potency; but it is not so much a matter of potency as the proper remedy. However, the potency must be sufficiently attenuated to reach the plane of disease. Sugar or salt must first dissolve before it will be diffused in a liquid.

I have many times wired to the late Dr. Kent for consultation in my earlier days of practice in desperate cases, and if we had the time it would be profitably spent in listening to some of these experiences-miraculous results by a master who understood disease and understood the nature of his medicines, and the results were often uncanny, savouring of Divine guidance.

I cant recall a single failure in cases both acute and chronic; so-called surgical cases when surgeons refused to operate, so you know they were bad cases; typhoid, diphtheria; impacted gall bladder; gall stones; kidney stones; abscess of vital organs; chills and fever; every case consulted recovered! Dr. Kent would see the remedy from my telegram when I could not see the remedy with the patient before me. Can you deny that such results are miraculous? It is beyond human belief to those who have not seen for themselves.

I will rest my case with you, my professional colleagues, with one more personal experience that is of such import that I feel it should be placed on record as it is official.

Scene: Washington, D.C. The week of presidential election in 1916. Case: United States Postal Department vs. the Ensign Remedy Company. Battle Creek, Mich, Dr. Ensign was cited to appear before the postal department to show reason why a fraud order should not be issued against him barring him from using the mails on two charges. 1st, that homoeopathic medicine, or rather his medicines, contained no medicine; and secondly, that no medicine can cure. (The Ensign literature, some of which circulated through the nails, claimed that his homoeopathic medicines cured sick folks, to which the government took issue maintaining that no medicine ever cured. That being the position of allopathy.).

William H. Schwartz