PRESCRIBING AGGRAVATION

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This subject of the second prescription was to me the most difficult in homoeopathy. Every beginner should read and reread his Kents Philosophy, restudy his cases, and above all “watch and wait”.

NEW YORK CITY.

A homoeopathician speaks with the highest veneration of Hahnemann, of his writings, acquirements, genius and honest uprightness; of his superior gift of observation, and success in applying his new method of cure with far better results than his pupils through his most intimate knowledge of the materia medica which he created. The older the student the more be admires the genius of the master, for he knows him better and trusts him more the longer he associates himself with his writings, gradually becoming identified and enabled to follow him by experiment.

The non-homoeopathist speaks disdainfully of Hahnemann; he calls him a man of straw, a visionary; declares him unreliable in his observations, his materia medica a mass of chaff, perfectly useless unless well sifted; his system he terms unscientific and ridiculous, in need of being modified, remodeled, or exploded. The less he knows of it the more fault he finds with it.

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Elizabeth Wright Hubbard
Dr. Elizabeth Wright Hubbard (1896-1967) was born in New York City and later studied with Pierre Schmidt. She subsequently opened a practice in Boston. In 1945 she served as president of the International Hahnemannian Association. From 1959-1961 served at the first woman president of the American Institute of Homeopathy. She also was Editor of the 'Homoeopathic Recorder' the 'Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy' and taught at the AFH postgraduate homeopathic school. She authored A Homeopathy As Art and Science, which included A Brief Study Course in Homeopathy.
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