We can go to this person, offer adequate remuneration for the service desired, secure his consent to investigate homoeopathy thoroughly and write a treatise fro us on its relation to his own specialty.
Then we can publish this treatise and send it out to every physician in the United States, to every prominent worker in the field chosen and to all other well known students we might have on our mailing lists.
So with each one of the subjects with which we wish to correlate homoeopathy. The result be a series of able treatises by those whose voices would be heeded by the thinking people forming the background of the picture.
Of course such procedure would cost money; all worth while things do. If we homoeopathic physicians who love our prescribing art, are enough in earnest and can work together, the choice of people to write the treatises and their consent to do the necessary preliminary work in cooperation with us would make a telling appeal to those who have money to give.
Third, we, as physicians, can study the correlated subjects and be alert to appreciate the work of those who will work with us in writing the treatises.
Would not these three procedures be worth while? Are they not practical? Do they not fit into present-day need? Would they not prepare the way to bring light into the foreground of the picture of a decade of progress, enabling homoeopathy to take its place?.
The American Foundation for Homoeopathy constitutes a clearing house for just this kind of cooperative endeavor. Its Bureau of Research would be the place for the work here outlined.
“A man with a truth is a man with a torch.
His duty lies in the dark places”.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
DISCUSSION.
CHAIRMAN J.W. WAFFENSMITH: We have heard a great dead this afternoon about what is not being done. Let us take a few minutes to speak about something that is being done. I went to the second annual Physicians-Laymen Conference this spring. It was my first visit to the Laymens Conference. I was surprised at what Dr. Green and Dr. Ross are doing for the laymen. Speaking about homoeopathic education, I have never seen any laymen better qualified to speak on homoeopathic philosophy from a laymans standpoint than these laymen in Washington. It is a remarkable and commendatory work. I would urge each member of this Association to make it his business to visit the next annual Laymens Conference in Washington and enter into the conversation and discussion. I assure you you will be agreeably surprised.
DR. A. PULFORD: You must remember there are two sides to this question. We have been going down, down, down. Twenty years ago I predicted the whole thing.
You can go out and propagate homoeopathy all over but if you cant furnish the men to do the work what good is it? If you have the men to do the work and dont propagate the thing what good is it? You have to consider both sides.
I have spent several hundred dollars in spreading the knowledge of homoeopathy, sending it all around the world, and we have educated the people. We find no trouble. But we aim to back up homoeopathy, and that is what we must do. If we dont do that, we will go down, no matter what else we do. All our propaganda will fall flat. We must back it up, and they know the difference. Our patients know the difference. We send medicine into every state in the Union. Our patients follow us up.
So, educate the people in pure homoeopathy and have men ready to take care of the results of your propaganda, otherwise you might just as well just your money in your pocket or light a cigar with it.
Touching the practical of dose, we quote the reply of Hahnemann to his friend and follower. Dr. Schreeter (who wrote the master for advice in the treatment of certain cases) as follows: “Your want of success in the cases recorded is certainly owing to rapid changes of remedies, too often unfitting dynamization…..and too large doses”. (Bradfords Life, p. 184)- A.R. MORGAN, M.D., 1895.
