DR.UNDERHILL, JR.,: I enjoyed Dr.Hayes excellent paper and it almost seems as if he had tuned in on the same broadcasting station that I did when writing a paper along similar lines. Of course it is “everybody to his trade”. A surgeon cuts, naturally, that is his business, that is what he is equipped for; you cant expect him to do anything else. When a tailor looks at you, he is bound to notice your clothes. You look like a suit of clothes to him. You like a shave and a haircut to a barber, and so on through all the departments of life. There is an enormous amount of unnecessary surgery. I venture to say 900 per cent of it is unnecessary. If it were all done for charity or for reasonable remuneration there would be practically no unnecessary surgery. There is money in it and so they grind their knives.
If a man is practicing medicine and limiting his practice to homoeopathy and an appendicitis case comes along, it is criminal to prescribe for that patient. If he dies, the doctor ought to be sent to jail, but if he gets surgical care, whether he has appendicitis or perhaps pneumonia and dies, of course the operation was successful! and so the merry war goes on.
DR.PULFORD: I enjoyed Dr.Hayess paper very much. He touched on admission into this association. I want to say right on this floor, whether you put me out or whether you dont, that I was disappointed when I got in, and I think we should go back to the first principles for which this association was originally formed, that is, every member should come in on probation. I firmly believe in it. I think it is right and just.
This association represents everything that is in homoeopathy; if not, it doesnt represent anything. The A.I.H. has gone to the walk, and we are just as rapidly following. If we are going to keep up the standards for this association as it was originally organized, we must put up the bars.
DR.MCLAREN: Talking about unnecessary operations, I would like to ask the members of this association to furnish reports of the bad effects of tonsil removal. This subject was brought very forcibly to my mind a few days ago. A young man of 32 or 33 consulted me for a very serious trouble with his head which he had had since he was 8 years old. I didnt see him, but he wrote to me from a distance. From the age of eight his head had never been quiet except when he was sleep; there was always a jerky motion. I asked him if he had had a fall or an injury to his head or spine about that time, about the time his trouble began. The response came back promptly, “No, I had no fall and no injury; I had my tonsils removed.
The fundamental rule in treating chronic diseases, is this,to let the carefully selected homoeopathic antipsoric act as long as it is capable of exercising a curative influence, and there is a visible improvement going on in the system. This rule is opposed to the hasty prescription of a new, or the immediate repetition of the same remedy.-HAHNEMANN.
Born in Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA on 20 Oct 1871 to Royal Edmund Hayes and Harriet E Merriman. He had at least 4 sons and 1 daughter with Miriam Martha Phillips. He lived in Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States in 1880. He died on 20 July 1952, in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.